A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum. Beloved by its fans, but criticized–perhaps unreasonably–by its detractors, the Chevrole...
Visitors at the 2017 induction ceremony. Photos courtesy British Sports Car Hall of Fame. Established in 2016, the British Sports Car Hall of Fame’s mission is to “preserve and perpetuate the legacy ...
The Simeone Museum’s Ford GT40 Mk IV, constructed by Kar-Kraft. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Kar-Kraft was the independent Michigan contractor behind such legendary Ford perf...
Photos courtesy Automotive Hall of Fame archives. The man behind some of the most noteworthy successes in a wide variety of segments of the auto industry will, for the first time, get an exhibit dedi...
Of the ways to build an all-wheel-drive mid-engine street machine, the folks behind this GTO took a rather unusual approach with a custom transmission and transfer case ahead of the engine. Engine Sw...
Tucker gallery at the AACA Museum. Photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. With just a fraction of its peak membership and dwindling engagement, The Tucker Automobile Club of America has reache...
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...
1955 Porsche Continental. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum, unless otherwise noted. Porsche has built up its long-admired reputation as one of the world’s premier builders of thrilling spor...
1955 Porsche Continental. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum, unless otherwise noted. Porsche has built up its long-admired reputation as one of the world’s premier builders of thrilling spor...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. One of Henry Ford’s odder inventions—and one that certainly challenges the notion he only ever wanted to build Model Ts into perpetuity—will get its moment in the spot...
Chassis 300.057, now on display at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. “What’s in a name,” Shakespeare asked, and in the case of the Porsche 901, the answer was a co...
The facade of Gratton Collection’s building. All photos by the author. —Matteo, do you know who George Selden was? —Mr. Gratton, if I correctly remember, he was the man who claimed to have invented t...
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...
Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Completed in 2008, Porsche’s new museum in its home city of Stuttgart, Germany, ranks among the world’s best single-marque facilities. Getting there can pose a challenge f...
2018 Corvette Hall of Fame inductees John Greenwood, Burt Greenwood, Tom Wallace, and Mike Yager. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. Since its inception in 1997, the Corvette Hall of Fame, loc...
Image via Google Street View. The cars going into the in-development Hackett Auto Museum might be largely of standard fare – a Model T, a Model A, a Mustang – but the history baked into the walls of ...
Ford Model K at the Piquette Plant. Photo courtesy Ford Piquette Avenue Plant on Facebook. Best known as the birthplace of the Ford Model T, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit also served as t...
Photo courtesy National Packard Museum. While the collections and the archives at the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, suffered no damage from a pair of related vandalism incidents at the mus...
The 1998 Reynard 98i driven by Bobby Rahal in his last Champ Car race. Photos courtesy The Petersen Museum. After an open-wheel racing career that spanned nearly two decades, Bobby Rahal drove his la...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...
The Simeone’s collection of cars that raced at Le Mans. Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Being picked as a nominee for “Museum of the Year” by the Octane Awards...
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...
Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...
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,...
1938 Autocar tanker. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise noted. Without commercial vehicles, modern life would grind to a halt rather abruptly. Despite their importance, these workhorses ar...