Maurizio Reggiani, Lamborghini’s chief technical officer is smitten with the V-12 engine. “The V-12 represents, the peak of excellence,” he says. Though he’s an engine engineer by training—he was the...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. Fifties concept cars aren’t the easiest things to restore. The handbuilt one-off glimpses of automotive futures past don’t exactly enjoy huge aftermarket support. But tha...
GM Lean Machine. Photo courtesy GM Media. Frank Winchell never liked the name “Lean Machine,” as GM called the three-wheeled concept vehicle that it showed off in 1982. To him, it was the cambering v...
Photos courtesy Marty Martino. The Lincoln Futura, as Bill Schmidt envisioned it and as Ghia originally built it, is no more, nor has it been since George Barris and his crew built the Batmobile out ...
George Walker operating the LaTosca radio-control car. Ford Media photos. Employers! Worried that your employees newly assigned to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic are just goofing off,...
All photos by the author To the casual observer this pile of rusted metal is just that – a pile of rusted, crumpled, useless metal. But it’s more than that. Believe it or not, it’s the body of a 1935...
Sergio Pininfarina. Images courtesy of Pininfarina except where noted. Pininfarina is, perhaps, the best known of the dozens of Italian carrozzerie that sprung up near Turin in the first decades of t...
All photos by the author. Exhibitors do not apply for entry to the annual Salem (Oregon) Roadster Show. They must be invited. There are no fees to enter, no judging classes or committees. All makes a...
Holden Hurricane. Photo courtesy GM Media. With last month’s sudden announcement that GM will kill off the Holden brand as it pulls out of right-hand-drive markets, Australian government officials ha...
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 ...
All photos by Turbo Tara Media Imagine building a custom car that can take several years and thousands of hours of work, but you can’t tell anyone. Whether owner, fabricator, or a supplier of a compo...
Editor’s Note: For the 68th year, Autorama descended upon downtown Detroit with some of the most outrageous, imaginative, and meticulously created vehicles ever seen. The highlight every year is the ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Photos by Richard Lentinello (left) and courtesy Smith family (right). Though best known for designing the complicated but functional retractable hardtop system that went into the Ford Skyliner, engi...
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. ...
Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. Last month, we set out to definitively chronicle the history of automakers offering camping packages for their vehicles, either as factory specials, options...
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 ...
Images courtesy FCA. Long before anybody’s wildest imaginations could have conceived of Chrysler (not to mention Dodge and Jeep) becoming part of a multi-national carmaking company that included some...
Mid-January is auction week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this year there were eight auction companies in the region hosting sales. One of the first to run is Indiana-based Worldwide Auctioneers, which...