1941 Ford staff wagon, built in Canada for the British Army. Photos courtesy Tom Mack Auctions. Located in the Southside neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, Old Car Heaven is an event space unlike a...
Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...
Circa 1908 Prinz-Heinrich Benz. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Designed to compete in the Prince Heinrich Tour, a multi-day, 1,200-plus-mile event that wound through Germany, Hungary, and Austria,...
1958 Porsche 550A Spyder, chassis 550A-0145. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Lighter in weight than the Porsche 550 Spyder it replaced and blessed with greatly improved handing,...
1938 Autocar tanker. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise noted. Without commercial vehicles, modern life would grind to a halt rather abruptly. Despite their importance, these workhorses ar...
DeLorean prototype 1 at the AACA Museum. Photo by Nancy Gates. In October 1976, the first running prototype of John DeLorean’s futuristic gullwing coupe was delivered by builder Triad Services Group....
Photos via Jon Mello collection. On track it didn’t do that well. Over its one-year racing career, it DNFd as many times as it finished and only recorded one podium. But it’s not the racing record th...
Rob Ida has carried on his father Bob’s passion for modifying and crafting hot rods, race cars, and other wheeled projects, and gained notoriety some years back for creating replicas of the famous Tu...
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...
Elliot “Chip” Miller. Photo courtesy Carlisle Events. In 2004, Carlisle Events co-founder Elliot “Chip” Miller succumbed to complications from primary amyloidosis, a rare, incurable plasma cell disor...
Two of the various Fiat 508 C sedans that took part in the GP Nuvolari, quietly parked under fitting buildings. All photos by the author. After that very charming Desenzano Sunday, spent together wit...
Cars as musical instruments? Composer Ryoji Ikeda recently pulled together 100 modified cars atop a Los Angeles parking garage for an elaborate concert involving the cars’ stereo systems, horns, engi...
All images courtesy of Smiths Auctions. Eight-plus decades after its 1934 introduction, Chrysler’s futuristic Airflow remains a polarizing design among classic-car collectors and enthusiasts alike. F...
Images are courtesy of Bilweb Auctions Outside of their home country of Sweden, Volvo cars have always been a bit of an acquired taste, sold for decades on their merits of safety, durability, and eve...
1913 Peugeot L45 Grand Prix car, part of the Bothwell Collection. Photos courtesy Bonhams. For 60 years, Lindley Bothwell indulged his passion for buying and driving antique cars, amassing what was o...
Photos by the author. October, with its often rainy days, may still be a lovely month for open-air nature lovers, and also classic cars’ enthusiasts may have their good occasions to see some really i...
Holden HT Monaro. Images courtesy Holden. As Holden prepares to end production in Australia for good later this month, the GM subsidiary has planned a number of ways to remind Australians of all the ...
The contemporary Excelsior-Henderson logo. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. In December 1998, a reborn Excelsior-Henderson produced its first new motorcycle in 67 years. Just 2,000 Super X models were...
The Shelby-built Trans-Am Mustang of John McComb, which sold for $400,000 in January 2013. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Chuck Cantwell is no stranger to fans of early Shelby Mustangs. As project en...
1913 Rolls-Royce 40/50-hp Silver Ghost London-to-Edinburgh sport-tourer, chassis 2380. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The six-cylinder Rolls-Royce 40/50-hp chassis earned its London-to-Edinburgh nickname t...
Photo courtesy National Corvette Homecoming. Founded in 1981, the same year Corvette production moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the National Corvette Homecoming (NCH) is a...
By 1913, Stevens-Duryea had established itself as one of America’s finest automakers, selling touring cars and limousines at prices comparable to marques like Pierce-Arrow and Packard. Just 1,000 aut...
F40 and Ferrari’s factory — take one. All photos by the author. Once in a decade, there is a moment of the year when it is possible to see a literal herd of prancing horses gathering together to cele...
Ross Paswell, convicted of auto theft in 1945. Mugshots courtesy angusmcdiarmid on Flickr. They make it look easy in the movies: Fiddle around under the steering wheel, strip some wires, and touch tw...