1967 Plymouth Hemi GTX. Photos by Russ Rocknak, courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. Introduced in the fall of 1966, Plymouth’s GTX was billed as “the gentleman’s hot rod,” blending equal parts ...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...
1957 Ford Thunderbird, with the F-code V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Ford’s two-seat Thunderbird debuted in 1955, in direct response to the Chevrolet Corvette. Within a few years, however, th...
1973 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL, sold for $9,075. Photos courtesy Auctions America. What do a Nash Metropolitan, a Cadillac Allante, a Chevrolet Corvair Monza, an AMC Javelin and a Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzg...
The Kirt Fryer 1971 Mustang collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Ask Mustang enthusiasts to name the most desirable examples over the years, and it’s a safe bet that the lar...
1927 Bugatti Type 38A Grand Sport. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. By the late 1920s, Bugatti had established itself as a dominant force in motor racing with the hu...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. When Chevrolet released the newly styled 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe, it did so with the knowledge that a select group of customers would want to take these cars road...
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...
1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche and Volkswagen collection made headlines when 16 (of 17) cars offered at auction in Amelia Island sol...
1953 Muntz Jet roadster. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Earl “Madman” Muntz was renowned as a used-car and cheap-television pitchman, but even his sales...
Ask fair-weather enthusiasts to name the first hybrid automobile, and the answer is likely to be the Toyota Prius, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1997, or the Honda Insight, which hit the ma...
Photos courtesy of Historics at Brooklands. A two-seat convertible sports car hardly seems like a sensible choice for police work, but from the 1930s into the 1960s, British automaker MG provided a v...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. I...
1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Chevrolet’s Cosworth Vega could have been the car that attracted enthusiast drivers to the Vega line, and it could have shown the world...
1966 Ford GT40 Mk I. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Ford’s GT40 enjoyed great success as a racing car, but as a passenger car, a role required for FIA homologation, it was a fa...
1973 Porsche 917/30, chassis 004. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. Introduced to the Can-Am series in 1973, the Porsche 917/30 was the ultimate evolution of the storied Porsch...
1957 Ferrari 335S. Photos courtesy Artcurial. When Artcurial sold a historically significant, ex-works Ferrari 335S for 32,075,200 euros (now, $35.6 million) at its Paris auction on Friday, February ...
If you’d like to get a look at our 1980 MGB roadster, a.k.a. the Project Car with a Heart, here’s a golden opportunity. The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine, has put our little red...
1965 Buick Riviera GS. Photos by Mathieu Heurteult, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Introduced in 1963, the Buick Riviera came to market as a personal luxury coupe long on both st...
The 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition crosses the block. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In 2011, a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition with less than seven miles on the odom...
1954 Kaiser Darrin 161, serial number 161.001001. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Introduced at the 1952 Petersen Los Angeles Motorama, the Kaiser Darrin was the first fiberglass-bodied convertible sports c...
1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. For those who would say the market for muscle cars is waning, consider this: Nine of t...
Photos courtesy Artcurial. To build a magnificent, imposing and graceful automobile takes time. Time, however, has a way of diluting many of the strongest dreams, so building such a car also requires...
Seinfeld Collection Porsches. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a thing for automobiles, most notably those from Porsche. His c...