Photos courtesy Mossgreen. The Australian auction house that last year aimed to set a record for the most expensive car sold in Australia – and prior to that, claimed the record for the most expensiv...
As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
The Iso Grifo A3/L prototype hammers at $1.6 million to set an auction record. Photos by Mike Maez unless otherwise noted; all photos copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Iso Grifo, like ...
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Based upon the racing car of a similar name, the production Mercedes-Benz 300 SL debuted as a gullwing-door coupe in 1954. Three years lat...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Apparently, when your daddy’s the local dealer for unusual cars like the Israeli Sabra, you can afford to be choosy regarding which cars daddy gets to gift you. Or, at least,...
All images courtesy of Mecum Auctions. Fans of a specific make of muscle cars can be a parochial bunch. Mopar guys have their 426 Hemis and Six Packs. Blue Oval types have their Boss 429s and Cobra J...
Photo by Karli Watson. Somehow, while we weren’t looking, another year passed us by. With 12 more months behind us, it’s time once again to dust off our crystal ball (Lucite, really, because the good...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G Indy roadster. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. By the mid-1950s, Smokey Yunick’s skill as a mechanic and crew chief was well-established in NASCAR...
The last Oldsmobile built, a 2004 Alero GLS Final 500 Collector’s Edition. Photo by Joe Ross. Sometime after 9:30 a.m. Eastern this morning, a Dark Cherry Metallic 2004 Oldsmobile Alero GLS sedan wil...
2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Images courtesy Chevrolet, unless otherwise noted. Millions of Americans can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001. We should al...
1968 Molzon Corvair. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1963, GM designer William “Bill” Molzon set out to build a car of his own, with some rather ambitious goals: It would accelerate faster than ...
1964 BSA 646cc Rocket Gold Star. Photos courtesy of Bonhams Auctions. Amid all the very upper-crust collector vehicles that will be featured – an Elton John-owned 1959 Bentley, 1955 Lancia B24 Spider...
Dick Landy’s 1965 Dodge Hemi Coronet AFX Dragster. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The 12 B-bodies rolled out by Chrysler in late 1964 for Factory Experimental drag racing didn’t look quite right, es...
The era of turbocharged production motorcycles from Japan was short and not particularly sweet. But the novelty of turbo bikes today, combined with their low-production numbers, makes them fun and un...
1968 Yenko Super Camaro. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. By anyone’s estimation, a 1968 Yenko Super Camaro is a rare car. Roughly 64 were built by Yenko Che...
1974 Volkswagen Thing Acapulco Edition; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicu...
Launched in 1965, Shelby American’s G.T. 350 worked better on the racetrack than it did on the daily commute. Once the initial thrill wore off, many buyers found the car too harsh, meaning that chang...
1941 Ford staff wagon, built in Canada for the British Army. Photos courtesy Tom Mack Auctions. Located in the Southside neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, Old Car Heaven is an event space unlike a...
Circa 1908 Prinz-Heinrich Benz. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Designed to compete in the Prince Heinrich Tour, a multi-day, 1,200-plus-mile event that wound through Germany, Hungary, and Austria,...
1958 Porsche 550A Spyder, chassis 550A-0145. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Lighter in weight than the Porsche 550 Spyder it replaced and blessed with greatly improved handing,...
1967 Dodge Hemi Coronet R/T; image by the author. When covering any auction for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb — we do our best to adhere to — is to review a few extra vehicular lots....
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
1914 Henderson Model C. Photographs courtesy Bonhams’ Auctions The October 15 Autumn Stafford Motorcycle Auction at the Carole Nash 24th annual Motorcycle Mechanics Show was filled with bargains and ...
All images courtesy of Smiths Auctions. Eight-plus decades after its 1934 introduction, Chrysler’s futuristic Airflow remains a polarizing design among classic-car collectors and enthusiasts alike. F...
Images are courtesy of Bilweb Auctions Outside of their home country of Sweden, Volvo cars have always been a bit of an acquired taste, sold for decades on their merits of safety, durability, and eve...