Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. When the Bullitt Mustang sold for a record $3.4 million earlier this year, hardly anybody asked what Mustang could top that; why ask a silly questi...
Don Garlits in Swamp Rat XIII, March 1970. Photo courtesy NHRA. 1,300 pounds. 1,600 horsepower. 220 inches out to those front wheels. No more bodywork or paint than necessary. Like many a Don Garlits...
In pondering whether Brooks Stevens really wanted to see the world move to rear-engine automobile designs last week, we presented conflicting theories about his work: that he genuinely looked down up...
Photo courtesy Australian National Motor Museum. It’s not difficult to find a fault for the demise of the Hartnett Motor Company, one of the few companies to offer a challenge to Holden to become Aus...
Alice Ramsey and Hermine Jahns, c.1909. Photo courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library. “A few of our most skeptical friends told us after our return that they d...
Gonna be seeing a lot of Ford Bronco retrospectives ahead of the new Bronco’s introduction this year, so let’s start with the one that The Detroit News put together this week describing the Bronco as...
Photo by Matt Litwin. In every niche in the collector car world, there are people you stop and listen to, no matter the occasion. When it comes to Studebaker drag racing, that person is Ted Harbit, w...
Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...
“ Drive Buddy Boy! ” by Ben Addison. The images of cars in motion that Ben Addison paints come across as both familiar and jarring. Sure, the settings, the lighting, even the cars themselves tickle a...
Traveling from the northernmost part of Europe to the southernmost part of Africa is usually an ordeal that involves plenty of advance planning, levelheadedness, and professionalism. Not so with Rich...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Museum of Art. After all the talk of streamlined rear-engine cars in America during the Thirties – all the renderings and sketches and homebuilt prototypes and Stout Scarabs...
Ford Probe I. Photo via Christie’s. They both arose from the same economic factors and in the same general time period. They had some styling similarities, emblematic of that time period. They both r...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
The Citroen DS had an uphill battle coming into the U.S. market for many reasons we won’t run down here. Suffice it to say, none of those reasons (save for maybe the headlamp issue) had to do with st...
The Citroen DS had an uphill battle coming into the U.S. market for many reasons we won’t run down here. Suffice it to say, none of those reasons (save for maybe the headlamp issue) had to do with st...
All images courtesy GM Media. For a division that built distinct production cars for nearly 70 years, Holden – which GM officially terminated over the weekend – built surprisingly few concept cars. T...
From left: Malcolm Durham, Leonard W. Miller, Wendell Scott, and Ronald Hines at a meeting of the Black American Racers Association. Image via Silent Thunder. With the release of the Adam Carolla-dir...
It’s a good bet that plenty of auto renderings from 1945 until, oh, 1979 or so – particularly the far-out space-agey ones of the Fifties – operated on the designer’s assumption that nuclear power wou...
My favorite shot of Carroll and Daisy: sunrise on the banking of Irwindale. Photo courtesy Bud Brutsman. Every year in Detroit after the North American International Auto Show, J Mays and I would get...
No history of rock-n-roll cars would be complete without a mention of John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce, so let’s see what GQ had to say about it. To take a Phantom V – a stately wagon once possessed by both...
1995 Chrysler Atlantic. All photos courtesy FCA Media. Dodge had the Viper. Plymouth the Prowler. It only made sense that Chrysler would gain its own retro-influenced concept-turned-production flagsh...
Images courtesy Ben J. Smith. Those who knew of engineer Ben J. Smith most likely knew of him for his retractable hardtop design for the Ford Skyliner, as we covered in our article on his life earlie...
Not long after we ran Peter Wozena’s minicar rendering, we heard from Scott Wozena, Peter’s nephew, who had another couple renderings of his uncle’s to share with us. “It makes me proud to see his ta...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
1976 Rainbow and the 1972 Camargue (behind pillar). Photos via SIVAG. As certified Italian cultural treasures, the collection of Bertone prototypes and show cars that went up for sale along with the ...