Just about every Corvair model ever created is on display, including this rare 1966 Fitch Sprint. The Frost Green 1969 Convertible is the very last Corvair convertible ever built, and is part of the ...
Jochen Mass in a W25 at Goodwood. Photo by Bahnfrend. Pop open any book discussing Mercedes-Benz racing history and guaranteed that book will include the story about how, faced with overweight W25 ra...
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo courtesy NASCARHall.com. Each year, a voting panel of NASCAR representatives, NASCAR Hall of Famers, track owners, media, manufacturer’s repres...
This 1964 Ferrari 250 Le Mans, driven by Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt, was the last Ferrari to take an overall win at Le Mans. Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Located in a former department store...
Photos courtesy Porsche. In its first decade, 356-001, the first vehicle to carry the Porsche name, suffered a number of ignominies. The letters in that nameplate got rearranged, an Opel full of nuns...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Prior to selling off the late Jim Street’s collection, which included two of the most iconic — and largely unseen for decades — mid-century custom cars, Mecum Auctions...
The Simeone’s 1913 Mercer Raceabout. Photos by Andrew Taylor, courtesy Simeone Museum, unless otherwise noted. In 1911, the two-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first “International Swee...
1967 Toyota 2000GT. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. From humble beginnings, Japanese automotive brands have experienced remarkable growth in the United States over the past six decades. Opening May ...
The Classic Car Club of America Museum reported earlier this month that the restoration of Margaret Dunning ‘s 1930 Packard 740 Custom roadster is now complete. * Kaiser’s Henry J, as Mac’s Motor Cit...
Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
Photography by the author. The BMW Car Club of America is one of the largest and most active car clubs in America, growing exponentially since its founding in 1969. It’s really no coincidence that th...
Stout Scarab. Photos courtesy Portland Art Museum, except where noted. The advent of streamlining not only enabled car designers to radically experiment with both the style and substance of the autom...
Jim France. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. In 1948, William H.G. “Big Bill” France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), both to grow the sp...
Google’s satellite view tells the same old tale: New houses encroaching on an old junkyard. Hat tip to KSL-TV for breaking this story. As the 1920s aviation craze gave way to the harsh realities of t...
Established in 2000, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera recently got treated to a full renovation. It’s now, according to Piaggio, the largest Italian museum dedicated to two-wheeled transportation. Tha...
Photos courtesy Osenat, except where noted. The prospect of an inexpensive mid-engine road-car chassis excited many a designer when Porsche announced the 914; the car’s flat and angular design, an in...
Photo by The359. The Jim Clark color scheme might not be accurate, but the Lotus 29 in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s collection does carry significant history, which is why museum official...
Three generations of the Ness family (left to right, Arlen, Corey, and Zach). Photographs courtesy of the Quail Gathering. With more than 300 prewar and postwar motorcycles on display, May’s Quail Mo...
A track-driven 2004 Chevrolet Corvette Indy Pace Car, one of three 2004 models in the collection. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The Chevrolet Corvette has paced the Indianapolis 500 a total of 14 t...
Photo courtesy AmericanAuctioneers.com. From photos, it’s hard to say which of the six Powell pickups coming up for auction is the cream of the crop: One’s missing its windshield, another appears giv...
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. What went behind the decision to downsize pretty much every American automobile in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A May 1980 New Yorker article that Curbside Classic ...
Photographs courtesy The Museum of Off-Road Adventure. While most four-wheel-drive enthusiasts would argue that the proper place for any such vehicle is a trail, a beach, or a mud bog, a group in Mic...