Neal Bascomb’s new book, “Faster,” got the attention of the New York Times this week, which decided to look into which one of America’s premier collectors owns the Rene Dreyfus-driven Delahaye 145 th...
Date: spring 1980 Location(s): Paris, France (above); Amsterdam, Netherlands (below) Source: Marjorie Leuschner What do you see here?
Marreau brothers 1981 Renault R20 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: With great pride, we offer one of the pioneering cars of the famous rally raid Paris-Dakar : the legendary R...
Restored 1961 Renault Resort Special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Yes, it’s a 1961 Renault Resort Special, far more rare than most iterations of the Fiat Jolly. There were...
It’s a 1973 Citroen AK 400 for sale on Hemmings.com (via the same seller offering the stretchy Citroen HY van highlighted in a previous FOTD ). From the seller’s description: Top quality, body-off ch...
The folks at Citroenvie, already quite chuffed that the Citroen SM would be featured at Retromobile, are understandably disappointed that PSA’s DS division has gone around removing reference to Citro...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
Over the holidays, it seems some thieves in Moscow decided to treat themselves to a Christmas present: Stalin’s ZiS-115 armored limousine. Local media say the vehicle belonged to the head of security...
1971 Citroen DS20 wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description (converted from all caps, because we don’t need to yell): Only 71,700 km or 47k miles. Imported from the Netherlands se...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
1972 Citroen DS21 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Yes, I love my Citroen and you will too. The main reason I am selling is that my left arthritic ankle does not like the clut...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
1985 Peugeot 505 D wagon for sale on Hemmings.com and comes with a parts car. From the seller’s description: 1985 Peugeot 505 D Diesel Automatic- Runs great, well maintained, always garaged, good int...
Original 1965 Citroen 2CV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 2 CV 6 Charleston was imported to the United States in 1987 as a 1965 Model. It has remained with the same owne...
Period photos likely via Michelin, Biel Technicum. Technical solutions often appear that only make sense in certain windows of time. Take, for instance, the fax machine, relevant until suddenly every...
Photos via L’Aventure en 2CV. Stories abound of overlanders who put their lives at risk venturing off into vast deserts in their 2CVs in search of adventure enough to fill volumes upon their return h...
Coming from Renault itself, this documentary on the Renault 5 is admittedly tilted to portray the 5 in a positive light. That said, it was a successful small car that spent nearly a quarter century o...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
From the seller’s description: 1987 Citroen CX 25 TRD Turbo 2 Famously known as the world’s fastest diesel-powered executive sedan. For model year 1987 Citroen made few changes to the body or interio...
1977 Citroen GS Special. Photo courtesy of Citroen Media Center. Enthusiasts and owners of French cars are invited to bring their vehicles to the first “French Revolution – Car Show of New England” t...
Photos courtesy Aguttes. Typically, the members of France’s Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale operate much like an American SWAT or SEAL team, with massive uparmored bulletproof vehic...
Does anybody look back fondly on the Reliant Robin? Not Martin Gurdon, who wrote about his rather brief experience owning one for Influx: The starter motor sounded sluggish, making slow churning nois...
A “Redcoat” at the annual Rebels and Redcoats Car Show. Photo courtesy of Washington Crossing Historic Park. To celebrate Independence Day, Washington Crossing Historic Park is hosting a Rebels and R...
Godard in the Spyker (right). Photo via Louwman Museum. Under any other circumstances, Charles Godard might today be hailed as one of two drivers to take on two of the most grueling distance races fo...