Photos courtesy Bonhams. These days, do-it-yourself implies building a headboard out of pallet wood. When the automobile was still in its infancy, the term called for a wider range of skillsets in or...
Photos courtesy Lloyds. No country’s performance-car market collapsed nearly as fast and dramatically as Australia’s. Within a week of a blockbuster 1972 headline decrying supercars capable of 160 MP...
Images courtesy Artcurial. While Dustin Shuler’s “Spindle” literally skewered automobiles for the sake of art, Arman’s “Long Term Parking” took a more figurative approach to critiquing automobiles as...
Benny Parsons’ Winston Cup Championship-winning 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was consistency, not race wins, that carried Benny Parsons to the...
1959 Pontiac Catalina Safari pickup. Photos by Jeremy Cliff, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Relatively popular in the prewar years, car-based pickups had all but disappeared from the American landscape whe...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. For most of us, a good day in the junkyard means the yellowjackets didn’t sting and the Sawzall blade didn’t pretzel up. For a pair of Ford enthusia...
1970 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Of all the reasons to buy a Ferrari, “room enough for the entire family” rarely makes the list, yet that’s exactly what prompted the purchas...
Photos courtesy Steve Linne. Racer Jack Conely might have been best known for the “maxi-mouse” small-block Chevrolet engines punched out to big-block proportions, but squirreled away among his stash ...
Photography is courtesy of Helsingborgs Auktionsverk. Considering the immense popularity of the annual classic-American car-themed Big Power Meet in Västerås and Lidköping, it should be no surprise t...
1913 Stutz Series B Bearcat. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1911, the Ideal Motor Car Company — renamed Stutz in 1912 — demonstrated the durability of its products by finishing 11th in the inau...
1984 Buell RW750. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Erik Buell’s first foray into motorcycle manufacturing came as much by accident as by design. When Barton Engineering, a manufacturer of racing mot...
Photos courtesy Lloyds, except where noted. Presale bids for four of the cars from the collection of vehicles owned or raced by Australian legend Peter Brock have already exceeded half-a-million doll...
Breese Paris roadster (L) and Breese Paris teardrop roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. As an automotive marque, Breese may be unfamiliar to even the most passionate Brass Era enthusiasts. Founded by ...
The 1964 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...
The 1965 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...
The 1935 Duesenberg SSJ hammers for a price of $20 million, $22 million with fees. Photo by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In recent years, there’s been considerable speculat...
1948 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Berlinetta. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Following its 1947 Mille Miglia victory, Alfa Romeo understood its aging 8C 2900 B Berlinetta would soon be outpaced...
1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. According to the latest NADA guide, high retail for a 1970 Plymouth Superbird built with the U-code engine (a 440 topped by a...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. What a Ford can do, a Holden can do better? Now that the first Australian car has broken the seven-figure ceiling, a collection of racer Peter Brock’s Holdens has ...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
1956 Cadillac View Master, built by Hess & Eisenhardt. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. There was no shortage of luxury sedan, coupe, and convertible models from Cadillac in 1956, but...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
1966 Porsche 911 Spyder. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Southern California Porsche dealer Johnny von Neumann knew what his customers wanted, and a Targa ...
The charity auction 1948 International Farmall H, pre-restoration. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. International Harvester’s Farmall H became a staple of American farms in the 1940s and ’50s due to i...
Photos courtesy Bonhams, except where noted. In 1971, all Jack Walter knew about the 1956 Porsche he’d just bought off his friend’s older sister was that it needed some body and paint work to straigh...