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,...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
1914 Henderson Model C. Photographs courtesy Bonhams’ Auctions The October 15 Autumn Stafford Motorcycle Auction at the Carole Nash 24th annual Motorcycle Mechanics Show was filled with bargains and ...
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...
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...
CSX 3359, the second-to-last 427 Cobra built. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Carroll Shelby was good at building fast cars, and his proficiency as a salesman is the stuff of legend. Record keeping wasn’t r...
1964 Lotus 34, chassis 2. Photos courtesy Bonhams, unless otherwise noted. It was driven in period by A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones and Jim Clark. With Jones driving, Lotus 34, chassis 2, ear...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. While Jack Sears won two separate British Saloon Car Championships, including the very first one in 1958, it was his latter championship which would prove the most notorious....
1959 Cadillac Broadmoor Skyview. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Opened by founder Spencer Penrose in 1918, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was intended to be one of the finest luxury hotels...
1912 Henderson Four. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. January is typically a good time of the year to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, particularly if one is shopping for vintage motorcycles. Auction firms Bon...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
1979 Triumph TR7 convertible. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Introduced in 1975, Triumph’s TR7 was heralded as “The shape of things to come,” and its bold lines quickly made it the best-selling TR...
Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. With just 12 examples constructed in-period, the E-Type Lightweight is rarer than Jaguar’s C-type (53 built) and D-type (71 ...
Austin-Healey’s 100S was a car built without compromise or attention to cost, meant to deliver racing glory to gentlemen racers capable of fronting the $4,995 price of admission. Just 50 examples wer...
1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Bougham de Ville. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. For over a century, the name Rolls-Royce has been synonymous with luxury. That’s not to say that all Rolls-Royce models are eq...
1924 Croft-Cameron Super Eight. Photos courtesy Bonhams. No one knows for certain how many motorcycles Croft-Cameron built during their three years in operation, from 1923-’26, or how many survive to...
1907 Locomobile Model E project. Photos courtesy Bonhams. There aren’t many manuals to assist with the restoration and reassembly of a 1907 Locomobile Model E, but on a positive note, the brass-era a...
The 1987 Porsche 928 CS prototype formerly owned by Derek Bell. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The words “company car” tend to conjure up images of de-contented Fords and stripper Chevrolets, but world-cla...
1956 Porsche 550 Rennsport Spyder, chassis 550-0090. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Built from 1953 until 1956, Porsche’s 550 Rennsport Spyders have always been desirable cars. Most were raced in-...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
1953 Aston Martin DB3S/5. Photos courtesy Bonhams unless otherwise specified. It was built for Aston Martin owner David Brown (the DB in Aston Martin’s nomenclature), but soon after commandeered by t...
1932 Brough Superior BS4. Photos courtesy Bonhams. News of eight barn-stored Brough motorcycles rocked the British bike world last year, when the collection of the late Frank Vague was revealed to be...
1954 Ferrari 375-Plus, chassis 0384 AM. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In June of 2014, a 1954 Ferrari 375-Plus carrying chassis tag 0384 AM sold at a Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction fo...