Photos courtesy Profiles in History, except where noted. For appearing in one episode of a 50-year-old television show, Grampa Munster’s Dragula has gone on to inspire a disproportionate following, b...
Elvis Presley’s 1973 Lincoln Continental Limousine, courtesy of Kruse GWS Auctions. The staff at Kruse GWS Auctions announces a collection of “Artifacts of Hollywood & Music” auction to take place at...
OK – full disclosure, here: we may have tested your patience last week with a truly terrible movie. But look, there’s some beauty in a bad movie. If you can suspend reality for an hour or so and let ...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Prior to selling off the late Jim Street’s collection, which included two of the most iconic — and largely unseen for decades — mid-century custom cars, Mecum Auctions...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. For several years it toured the country claiming a Guinness world record for “world’s most expensive automobile,” and it very well may have been, g...
Ostensible land-speed contender 1975 George Barris Snakepit for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This extreme example of the Californian customisers’ craft and ingenuity was creat...
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...
Photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Most TV shows get at most one chance to introduce a cool hero car: the A-Team van, KITT, and the Batmobile all pulled solo duty on their respective shows. Not so wit...
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...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo by Sondre Kvipt, courtesy Kustomrama. Bill Hines had been around in the auto customizing scene for so long and remained so active it seemed as though he was immortal. While his legend will live...
Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely ...
Even if you're too young to recognize the name 'George Barris,' you've undoubtedly seen the cars he has created. As the automotive legend behind Barris Kustom Industries in North Hollywood, George Ba...