1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2246, which sold for a fee-inclusive $1.05 million. CSX2246 photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Shelby 289 Cobra may well have been...
1963 Porsche 356B Carrera 2 GS cabriolet. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1963, the most expensive Porsche road model one could order from an American dealership was the 356B Carrera 2 GS cabriolet, whic...
1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, chassis 412024. Photos courtesy Artcurial. Consider this: Just five Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B models were ever built with Carrozzeria Touring Berlinetta bodies ...
Photos by Christian Martin, courtesy Artcurial. Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection o...
1967 Shelby G.T. 500 Super Snake. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 2013, a one-of-one built 1967 Shelby G.T. 500 Super Snake, powered by a 427-cu.in. V-8 liberated from Shelby’s Ford GT40 Mk II pro...
Photos courtesy Gooding & Company. The De Lorean is, of course, intrinsically linked to the Back to the Future franchise. Aside from its role as the time machine central to each film’s plot, it has t...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Going into business for yourself requires a sense of timing, a degree of skill in your chosen field, some (make that plenty) startup capital, and perhaps above all a bold vis...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. There have been plenty of lame and forgettable Indy 500 pace cars, but only a few qualify as infamous, among them the Dodge Stealth R/T, the sports coupe slated to pac...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. There have been plenty of lame and forgettable Indy 500 pace cars, but only a few qualify as infamous, among them the Dodge Stealth R/T, the sports coupe slated to pac...
1965 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2588. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In October 1964, the penultimate Shelby 289 Cobra — and the last example sold to the public — was shipped to Shelby ...
1925 Bugatti Type 35A, chassis 4631. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. Introduced in 1924, the Bugatti Type 35 was the French automaker’s most successful competition model, amassing more than 1,...
1965 Chevrolet Corvette 396 Turbo-Jet V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. For a brief moment, the 425-horsepower Mark IV 396-cu.in. V-8 was top dog of available Corvette engines, producing higher o...
Frank Costin-bodied 1959 Lister-Jaguar. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. The 1958 Lister-Jaguar — known as the “Knobbly” for its bumpy bodywork — was a fine sports racer, competitive enough to deliv...
1980 Mercury Cosworth Capri. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. After a one-year absence, the Capri returned to Mercury dealers in 1979, this time as a badge-engineered Fox-body Ford ...
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Two is a coincidence and three is a trend, they say, but they likely weren’t talking about Volkswagen Things sitting on air suspensions and sporting le...
Tupelo Automobile Museum. Photos by Stephen Mancuso. Opened in 2002, the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, was the dream of broadcast entrepreneur Frank K. Spain, who began collecting ...
Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Imagine any top-level sports team not only going undefeated through an entire season and, as a result, winning a championship, but also setting a scor...
The Corvette Styling Cars driven by Harley Earl (L) and Bill Mitchell. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell set the pace for design at General Motors for a...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. At the crest of a wave of retro design that swept over the auto industry at the turn of the 21st Century, Ford introduced a pair of concepts that called back to one of...
1930 Bugatti Type 46 faux cabriolet. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Accessible to students studying automotive design, the classic-car collection of San Francisco’s Academy of Art University has gen...
The Jason Castriota-designed Chevrolet Corvette Mantide. Photos courtesy Aste Bolaffi. Nuccio Bertone received his dying wish: The company that carried his family name survived, at least in part, to ...
Photo courtesy Profiles in History. A long time ago, in the early days of the Internet, a misguided nerd wrote an article comparing the Millennium Falcon to a Chevrolet Nova. While the author made a ...
1965 Ford GT40 roadster. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. After disappointing performances in 1964 and 1965, Ford’s GT40 coupes dominated the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1966-’69. The ...
Photos by Gary Kessler, courtesy of Mecum Auctions. These days, photochoppers don’t waste much time in slapping together station wagon or shooting brake versions of every new car after the first offi...
Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. As a salesman traveling all over the country, Jim Jackson had plenty of seat time looking through a windshield out over vast ribbons of asphalt. By the mid-Seven...