First Drive 2016 #3
Saisonstart. Farbe! Frühlingshimmel und Caprigrün!! Sonntagsrunde mit dem Wartburg 353 S …
Saisonstart. Farbe! Frühlingshimmel und Caprigrün!! Sonntagsrunde mit dem Wartburg 353 S …
“Hoot to drive” should really be in every old car listing, unless it’s something we all take for granted, in which case, we have this replica 1935 Morgan Super Sports barrelback for sale on Hemmings....
Out of the recent spate of stories about the five-year anniversary of the tsunami that hit Japan came this rather special one, highlighted by Japanese Nostalgic Car, about a one-owner unrestored 1971...
Vive la France! Noch nicht lange ist es her, da stand die französische Auto-Industrie bedrohlich nah am Abgrund. PSA schrieb massive Verluste an jedem einzelnen Fahrzeug, Renault kam auch tief in die...
Saisonstart. Samstagssrunde mit dem Nissan 350 Z …
Long-term readers will no doubt be accustomed to my self-awareness of how infrequent I post. When I started the site in 2009, I wanted to post at least twice a week, nowadays I’m lucky to post once a...
Nur Fliegen ist schöner Zwei Jahrzehnte lang hatte Alfa Romeo den Rennsport auf höchster Ebene vielleicht nicht gerade dominiert, aber entscheidend geprägt. 1950/51 gelang mit einer Vorkriegskonstruk...
From a strictly financial perspective, the Dodge Viper is a car that never should have been built. Expensive to produce and targeted to an audience optimistically described as “limited,” the Viper wa...
small block Es geht fröhlich weiter im Wettrüsten der amerikanischen Hersteller. Gut, Dodge hat da mit dem 770-PS-Hellcat mal ein sehr deutliches Zeichen gesetzt, Mustang hat mit dem Shelby GT350 ein...
Other vehicles designed and built by Ferdinand Porsche going back to the turn of the century have adopted the Porsche name in the years since, but the first to actually wear the Porsche name, accordi...
This 1979 Subaru Brat was built by a machinist and welding professor from Oregon. It was sold when he moved to another state. Just about everything on this Brat is custom from the body, drivetrain, s...
Photos by author. Buying a used anything that you haven’t actually held in your hands, from a seller that you don’t really know, can be a daunting proposition. Yet, since we can’t have a swap meet in...
With a history that spans from early formula racers through saloon racing and into touring car championships, the United Kingdom has a rich heritage in motorsports. As such, they also have one of the...
Erstaunliches Es war ja schon lange ein Gerücht, dass Aston Martin irgendeinen Weg sucht, wieder in den oberen Ligen des Rennsports mitzuspielen. Lange vermutete man, dass die Engländer bei Force Ind...
While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes f...
Driving around the world is no mean feat. Doing it in a 100-year-old Ford Model T car is a staggering challenge. That’s exactly what Dirk and Trudy Regter are attempting. Find out how you can help at...
While at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elagance Rob Ida's 1940 Mercury was parked next to the Phantom Corsair for a brief period. The Merc was later relocated to the front of the Concours in its own s...
Walter Röhrl zeigt seine Klasse, bei der ersten Teilnahme am Pikes Peak Rennen (1987) im Audi Sport quattro S1. Sein schärfster Gegner ist Ari Vatanen im Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, der ebenfalls zum erste...
Das wahre Leben Es sind diese Anekdoten. Enzo Ferrari war 1951 mit seiner eigenen Firma gerade einmal vier Jahre im Geschäft, als er Battista «Pinin» Farina nach Modena einlud. Pininfarina, wie der M...
Yes, we know, plenty of folks are itching to turn this 1940 Willys coupe for sale on Hemmings.com into a gasser, just add fiberglass body and go. But the cowl-forward condition it’s in now – similar ...
Studebaker Indy car at Mt. Washington Hillclimb. Photo by the author. Officially, nobody ever called it by such a derisive term. The cars built under its stipulations never won a race. Its reign only...
Images from 2012 Watkins Glen SVRA Vintage Grand Prix. All photos by the author. Saloon racing is the European equivalent of our stock car racing, though they make just as many right turns as left on...
Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1969, Honda introduced its first U.S. market automobile, the N600 sedan. Developed from the Japanese market N360, the N600 underwent an extensive testing program in the United ...
Es riecht nach Frühling. Da könnte man doch… Man kann. Denn am Sonntag treffen sich wieder die Freunde historischen Blechs auf den Parkplätzen der Nation. Hoffen wir einmal, dass der Frühling noch di...
One of the best part of searching for articles is finding the wild combinations builders come up with. Take for example this project from Boix Performance in Funtana, Croatia. They have taken a 1961 ...