1967 Gerhardt Ford Indy Car. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Car owner Walter “Wally” Weir wanted a shot at running competitively in the Indianapolis 500, so for 1967 he purch...
Modena Design GT Spyder California. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a 1986 John Hughes coming-of-age comedy, made stars of actor Matthew Broderick and a relatively obscure F...
Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...
The last 1953 Chevrolet Corvette built, chassis 300. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was Harley Earl that sold GM on the need to produce an all-American sports car, and to test the waters, his Spe...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Of all the various one-offs, prototypes, and racing specials that Porsche engines made their way into over the years, perhaps none matched the girth of the limited-pro...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
Scarbo SVF1 prototype. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many racing fans, including Joe Scarbo, the pre-wing-era Formula 1 cars of the late 1960s were among the most beautiful co...
1970 Ducati 350 Desmo. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. When the auction frenzy in Monterey begins on August 16, bidders with deep pockets will be eyeing classic race cars from the C...
1958 Lister-Jaguar “Knobbly,” one of two such cars delivered to Briggs Cunningham in 1958. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Briggs Cunningham desperately sought victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The original taillamps? Too Seventies. The original marble interior pieces? Didn’t fit with the new paint scheme. But the original Reno Bell rotary dial in-car telepho...
A 1989 Chevrolet Camaro, built for the SCCA’s American Sedan series, sold for $9,000 – with trailer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Though Hagerty reports a decline in overall Monterey auction sales...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The new-for-1947 Studebakers designed under Virgil Exner’s watch might have had some of the most modern styling of any American car up to that point, but one of Exner’...
1935 Miller Ford V-8 Indy Car. Photos by Maggie Pinke, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1935, genius race car constructor Harry Miller entered into a deal with Preston Tucker and the Ford Motor Company to...
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he p...