Mercedes-Benz C 111-II experimental vehicle on the test track at the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz Classic. Officially, Mercedes-Benz remained retired from racing; ...
The Energica Ego Corsa, a pure electric race bike designed for the FIM’s Enel MotoE World Cup series. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Motorcycles have long been a part of Southern Califor...
The 2019 Corvette Grand Sport, the Official Pace Car for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy General Motors. Introduced in 1953, the Chevrolet Corvette was into its third-generation before bein...
Left to right: A 1976 Traveler, a 1976 Scout II, and a 1968 Scout 800 at the International Harvester proving grounds. Photos courtesy Ryan DuVall. By the late 1990s, it had seemed to Ryan DuVall that...
All photos by the author. Early April in North Carolina means one thing for the collector-car hobby: Charlotte AutoFair. This year’s Spring Charlotte AutoFair will take place from Thursday, April 4, ...
Tucker 48 chassis 1028. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. By September 1948, Preston Tucker had little left to lose. Production at his Chicago plant was all but halted by an SEC investigation, while ...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Students of automotive history will soon be gathering in Allentown, Pennsylvania, April 11-13, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Society of Automo...
1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...
Mario Andretti (standing) with his twin brother, Aldo. All photos courtesy World of Speed Collection. Even among those who don’t follow racing, and nearly two decades after his retirement from the sp...
1953 Vincent Series C Black Shadow. Photos courtesy Shannon’s Auctions. While it is still cold here in the Northern Hemisphere, summer just wound down in Australia, which is the time each year when S...
Photos courtesy Cummins. As a 23-year-old test inspector for Marmon in 1911, Clessie Cummins jumped at the chance to crew for Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, an experienc...
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi convertible. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. The E-body Dodge Challenger debuted in the fall of 1969 as a 1970 model. Both ha...
Shelby Cobras from the Steven Juliano Estate Collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Muscle car collector Steven Juliano, who died of cancer in September 2018, earned a reputat...
Tucker 48s on the lawn at Pebble Beach in 2018. Photo by Bill Rothermel, courtesy AACA Museum Inc. The AACA Museum Inc., in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is home to the largest collection of Tucker automobi...
1937 Delage D8 Aerosport — Image courtesy of the Studebaker National Museum. As we enter the last month of the first quarter, the Studebaker National Museum, located in South Bend, Indiana, has opene...
Grandson Jake, 19, owns three classics, including this 1975 Plymouth Scamp. He’s way ahead of where I was at his age…and his cars are more interesting, too. Photos by the author except where noted. P...
Tin Can Tourists in De Soto Park, December 1920. Photos via Florida Memory. Long before today’s #vanlife movement, another generation of travelers and wanderers who carried their houses around with t...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...
1992 Williams-Renault FW14B/08. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1991, its debut season, the Williams-Renault FW14 won seven of 16 races on the Formula 1 calendar, but mishaps and mechanical issu...
A California stop on the 2018 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. Photos courtesy Mattel. Last year, die-cast brand Hot Wheels celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 15-city tour and a build contest that immort...
1930 Packard 734 Speedster Runabout. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Packard’s vice president of engineering, Colonel Jesse Vincent, loved fast cars so much tha...
1930 Cadillac Series 452 V-16 roadster. Images courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Introduced to great fanfare at the 1930 New York Auto Show, Cadillac’s V-16-powered Series 452 models were designed to compet...
‘Cadmad,’ the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photo by John Sanderson. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’s Ridler ...
“Cadmad,” the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photos courtesy Detroit Autorama. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’...
Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...