1985 Tritan A2 Aero Car. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. According to futurist predictions in the 1960s, flying cars would be commonplace in the 1980s. That vision never came to pass, but one compa...
The camouflaged next-generation Chevrolet Corvette in New York City on April 11. Photo by Jennifer Altman for Chevrolet. It’s been, quite possibly, the worst-kept secret in General Motors’ history. F...
The camouflaged next-generation Chevrolet Corvette in New York City on April 11. Photo by Jennifer Altman for Chevrolet. It’s been, quite possibly, the worst-kept secret in General Motors’ history. F...
Circa 1916 Owen Magnetic. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In the early years of the 20th century, battery-electric cars competed head-to-head with internal combustion (and steam-powered) vehicles for market...
The rebodied 1979 BMW M1 driven by Harald Ertl to an LPG-powered speed record. Images courtesy Coys. On October 17, 1981, racing driver and motoring journalist Harald Ertl piloted a specially prepare...
Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. Sydney Allard cared about many things when building his sports cars. Aesthetics were not among those priorities. Yet with the Palm Beach Mark II, the prototype o...
Tucker 48 chassis 1028. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. By September 1948, Preston Tucker had little left to lose. Production at his Chicago plant was all but halted by an SEC investigation, while ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Vauxhall had no racing infrastructure when it reentered racing in 1971. It didn’t intend its 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine to hold up under competition use. But these things...
1953 Vincent Series C Black Shadow. Photos courtesy Shannon’s Auctions. While it is still cold here in the Northern Hemisphere, summer just wound down in Australia, which is the time each year when S...
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi convertible. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. The E-body Dodge Challenger debuted in the fall of 1969 as a 1970 model. Both ha...
Shelby Cobras from the Steven Juliano Estate Collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Muscle car collector Steven Juliano, who died of cancer in September 2018, earned a reputat...
1992 Williams-Renault FW14B/08. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1991, its debut season, the Williams-Renault FW14 won seven of 16 races on the Formula 1 calendar, but mishaps and mechanical issu...
McGlashan with the Aussie Invader III. Photos courtesy Lloyds. When collector-car dealer Tony Denny set up shop in Australia five years ago, he aimed to build the country’s largest car museum-slash-d...
1930 Packard 734 Speedster Runabout. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Packard’s vice president of engineering, Colonel Jesse Vincent, loved fast cars so much tha...
Photos via Ten-X Commercial. Somehow, despite the constant churn of Florida real estate, the decades-long dilapidation, and the drug-use problem that plagued the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fl...
1930 Cadillac Series 452 V-16 roadster. Images courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Introduced to great fanfare at the 1930 New York Auto Show, Cadillac’s V-16-powered Series 452 models were designed to compet...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Somewhere in Detroit, supposedly in a garage under the Ambassador Bridge, rests a heavily modified ‘Cuda, the last car that ...
1950 Veritas Scorpion. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. The postwar years were a bleak time for European automakers, including Germany’s BMW. Its factories in East Germany were taken over by the Sov...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Why Dr. W.H. Crothers stuffed his 1901 De Dion-Bouton away on the second floor of a barn for decades, one can only speculate, but the fact that he did set the stage for a For...
1968 Brabham BT26, chassis BT26A-3, in its 1969 Canadian Grand Prix colors. Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams.com. In 1966-’67, Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 constructor’s championship and...
The Gas Monkey Garage-built 1991 Ferrari F40, now offered at U.S. Marshals online auction. All photos courtesy Apple Auctioneering. Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas, didn’t make its name by rebuild...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Tom McEwen’s 1968-’69 Top Fuel slingshot dragster. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the mid-1960s, Tom McEwen had earned a reputation as a winning drag racer (and the nickname “Th...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many, land-speed racing is an open-ended license to innovate and push the bounds in the pursuit of speed. Bill Burke took that freedom to heart over a multi-decade ...
The first Porsche 916 prototype, “Brutus.” Photos courtesy Artcurial. In an alternate timeline, the Porsche 911 may have lost its crown as the brand’s halo car circa 1972, replaced by a high-performa...