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 ...
1955 Jaguar XK140 SE Michelotti coupe. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Though it came clad in an aluminum body crafted by Giovanni Michelotti, the expectations for the unique – but tired – Jaguar X...
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...
I rated this 1938 Graham 97 Supercharged, bodied by Saoutchik, a condtion 1 car for its excellent restoration with no discernible faults. Photos by author. One of our primary areas of coverage here a...
Photos courtesy Lamborghini. Though it technically debuted a couple months prior, the Lamborghini Marzal – the concept car that would eventually spur European coachbuilders to one-up each other with ...
The Shelby GT500 KR’s 50th birthday? It’s as good an excuse as any to put on a movie night and car show at Carroll Shelby International in California this Friday and Saturday. According to organizers...
1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88, raced at Le Mans, Sebring, and Daytona. Photo by Mike McNessor. Built for three years, from 1967-’69, Chevy’s L-88 Corvette was a race car that, coincidentally, could als...
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...
Attendees at 2017’s Automotive Restoration Camp. Photos courtesy Pennsylvania College of Technology. Did you build a career from the skills learned in summer camp? For most of us, the answer is “no,”...
Photos courtesy Kory Anderson. Nobody has seen one in close to a century, and they’d know it if they had: With eight-foot-tall drive wheels, a boiler a full-grown man could walk under, and the capaci...
John Morton on track in a 1970 Datsun 240Z built to include surviving parts from the original BRE race car. Photos by Dr. Chris Brewer. The sun was setting, providing a soft warm glow over the Road A...
1984 Toleman-Hart TG184. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1984, Ayrton Senna was an F1 rookie, driving for the under-funded Toleman team. In the season’s first five races, Senna had completed jus...
1952 Kurtis Kraft 4000 Indy Car, chassis 345. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In five starts at the Indianapolis 500, racer Ed Elisian never finished higher than 18th. It was his second Indy 500, in ...
1984 Jaguar XJS Lynx Eventer. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Officially, Jaguar didn’t build a station wagon until 2005, when the Ian Callum-designed X-type estate (“Sportwagon” to U.S. buyers) fi...
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...
1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots...
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...
Mecum’s Spring 2018 Gone Farmin’ Auction. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s Gone Farmin’ auction in Davenport, Iowa, earlier this month hauled in $4.5 million from the sale of 460 lots which in...
Photograph by Thomas A. DeMauro. No single factor ever sinks an automaker. The struggle between profits and losses typically has its roots in circumstances suffered from decisions made years, if not ...
Trio includes a Jaguar XK8 convertible, Mazda RX7, and Porsche 911, typical of Radwood cars of the 1980s and ’90s. Such vehicles aren’t considered particularly collectible today, but there’s no doubt...
The record-setting ‘Herbie,’ a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle sunroof sedan. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. No one knows exactly how many Volkswagen Beetles Walt Disney Productions used in making the first...
Each spring for 40 years, the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA has held AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it has grown into an event quite unlike any other in the U.S. The event is truly an...
Photos courtesy AACA Library. “Baby” is 63 years old, 5,000 pounds, and rated at three-quarter ton. But after a seven-year restoration of the 1955 Chevrolet bookmobile, Baby is also brand-spanking ne...
1977 Chevrolet LUV pickup. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctions. In need of a compact pickup to fight sales of import trucks, Chevrolet turned to Japanese partner Isuzu for help and, in 1972, debuted t...