1913 Peugeot L45 Grand Prix car, part of the Bothwell Collection. Photos courtesy Bonhams. For 60 years, Lindley Bothwell indulged his passion for buying and driving antique cars, amassing what was o...
The contemporary Excelsior-Henderson logo. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. In December 1998, a reborn Excelsior-Henderson produced its first new motorcycle in 67 years. Just 2,000 Super X models were...
Photos courtesy Mecum auctions. One depicts a sea voyage complete with krakens while another paints a picture of dueling wizards atop dragons. Others sport portholes of varying sizes along with spoil...
1913 Rolls-Royce 40/50-hp Silver Ghost London-to-Edinburgh sport-tourer, chassis 2380. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The six-cylinder Rolls-Royce 40/50-hp chassis earned its London-to-Edinburgh nickname t...
By 1913, Stevens-Duryea had established itself as one of America’s finest automakers, selling touring cars and limousines at prices comparable to marques like Pierce-Arrow and Packard. Just 1,000 aut...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, except where noted. The race took place over the distance of two telephone poles, or about 60 feet, and the winner never shifted out of first gear, but...
Photos by Greg Keysar, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Ironically, while Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s designs emphasized streamlining and speed, the 14-passenger bus he drew up for White to sell to tour operators ...
1933 Duesenberg Model SJ sweep panel phaeton by LaGrande, the auction’s top seller. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy Auctions America. It’s probably no surprise that a major automotive auction held ...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. A crash and fire might have taken the first Holden Dealer Team-prepped car out of its very first race, but that front-page event also provided the key to the team’...
Images courtesy of Bonhams and the Hemmings archives Saab fans from around the world have traveled to the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, Sweden, to see the “UrSaab,” or the original Saab car prototy...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The late 1970s were hardly a time of optimism for performance fans of the Pontiac Trans Am, but thanks to the efforts of two brothers from Glendale, Arizona, the perio...
Photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Most TV shows get at most one chance to introduce a cool hero car: the A-Team van, KITT, and the Batmobile all pulled solo duty on their respective shows. Not so wit...
Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024, sells for a hammer price of $12.8 million, $14.08 million with fees. Photo by Jensen Sutta, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Porsche’s legendary 917K is a r...
1933 Duesenberg Model SJ sweep panel phaeton by LaGrande. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy Auctions America. LaGrande, Duesenberg’s in-house coachbuilder, constructed a total of 11 “sweep panel” ph...
1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2328. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Launched in 1962, Carroll Shelby’s Cobras quickly earned a reputation as fast and fearsome in competition, yet not every Cobra delivered turne...
The Supernova 1964 Chevrolet Corvette convertible. Photos by Matthew Little, courtesy Auctions America. Bill Jobe’s day job was selling computers for Data General, but on weekends he vented stress by...
1995 McLaren F1. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams. Billionaire auto magnate Herb Chambers is looking to cash in on one of his best investments: a one-of-a-kind British sports car from his ...
2004 Shelby Cobra Concept. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the 1960s, Carroll Shelby and Ford were indelibly linked, but the relationship had soured by the mid-1970s. After a few years of lend...
1970 Ducati 350 Desmo. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. When the auction frenzy in Monterey begins on August 16, bidders with deep pockets will be eyeing classic race cars from the C...
1970 Plymouth Hemi Superbird. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Customers of Mecum Auctions tend to favor muscle cars, and the top-10 list from any of the company’s sales will reflect this. Last weeken...
CSX 3359, the second-to-last 427 Cobra built. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Carroll Shelby was good at building fast cars, and his proficiency as a salesman is the stuff of legend. Record keeping wasn’t r...
1951 Ford 8N with Funk six-cylinder conversion. Photos courtesy of Mecum Auctions. Swapping in a big engine for more horsepower isn’t always about hot rodding. Sometimes it’s a matter of putting food...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. What started out as a way to save lives by studying highway crashes led to a cascade of events that culminated in perhaps AMC’s biggest marketing op...
1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. By 1938, Packard had been out of the truck manufacturing business for 15 years, but a brief collaboration with t...