Photos from past runnings by Neil Hammond, courtesy Historic Winton. Australia is a driver’s paradise. Its population is just as crazed by cars as ours is. So it makes perfect sense that vintage auto...
Images courtesy Studebaker National Museum. The “what if” game doesn’t hold much appeal for Andy Beckman, so the archivist for the Studebaker National Museum didn’t care to speculate on an alternativ...
The rivalry between American motorcycle brands Indian and Harley-Davidson dates back over a century. Today, thanks to the 2011 revival of Indian and its 2016 return to racing under parent company Pol...
In 1965, McLaren introduced the M1B, its latest sports racer for Group 7 (and later, Can-Am) competition, which regulated the number of seats (two) and very little else about a car’s construction. Th...
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, a...
1967 Pontiac Tempest two-door post. Photos by author. I recently returned from the annual Scottsdale auto auctions, after spending nearly a week covering six of them with friends and co-workers Jeff ...
Photos by Matt Howell, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1988, Mazda introduced its latest Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) endurance racer, the 767, designed to take advantage of rule cha...
Divcos from the Hackenberger Collection. Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. Ron Hackenberger of Norwalk, Ohio, is our kind of guy. He started collecting cars when he bought a 1948 Studebaker at ag...
Rita, the 1958 Packard roadster created by John D’Agostino and Oz Welch. Photos courtesy Sacramento Autorama, except gallery images by Dan Stoner. It began life as a 1958 Packard Hardtop, and accordi...
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Aston Martin brand dates to 1913, and the company produced its first automobile in 1915. Its modern lineage, however, beg...
Forbes this week ran an article discussing what happens when nobody wants your parents’ stuff, and though it doesn’t address collector cars, we know well that the old car hobby is a generational one,...
1968 Hemi Darts. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pomona, California, is synonymous with NHRA drag racing, as host city to both the season-opening Winternationals and the season-ending NHRA Finals. Po...
Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type’s success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decisio...
1947 Chrysler Town and Country sedan. Photo courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Sixty-five years. The Antique Automobile Club of America and the Classic Car Club of America have co-existed for long...
Images courtesy the Mullin Automotive Museum. Though largely unknown to contemporary consumers in the United States, French automaker Citroen is beloved in much of the world for its innovative design...
The Rosa Parks bus at The Henry Ford, part of a collection of newly digitized videos by The Henry Ford. A spate of museum programs scheduled for this month aim to explore the confluences of African-A...
Ariels from Clive Pearson’s collection. Photos courtesy H&H Classics. After surviving two bankruptcies and two world wars, British motorcycle manufacturer Ariel faced a new challenge in the closing y...
Photos courtesy Hollywood Wheels. History has a way of blurring details, particularly when exact records are lacking. Take the Ghia-bodied Chrysler Special models of the early to mid-1950s by way of ...
Photos by Jim Coventry, courtesy Auctions America. Oliver Hine didn’t set out to build a custom that would set the show world on fire and continue to win awards nearly six decades after it was built....
Launched in 1970, Land Rover’s Range Rover SUV was designed with an ambitious goal in mind: to be as functional on-road as it was off-road. Early advertising referred to it as “a car for all reasons,...
Kevin Cogan driving the IMSA GTP Zakspeed Roush Ford Mustang to a third-place finish at Road Atlanta in 1982. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. We’ll say this: If you’re interested in attending a sp...
Lyn St. James’s record-setting 1989 Ford Thunderbird. Photos courtesy Motostalgia Auctions. Over the course of her racing career, Lyn St. James demonstrated her talent in a variety of vehicles and se...
1910 Autocarrier. Photos courtesy the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Best known on this side of the Atlantic for providing the chassis that underpins Carroll Shelby’s Cobra, the history of AC ...
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...
The brightwork was straight and still shiny. Terry noticed, among other things, how good the grille inserts looked, since they usually don’t wear too well. Photos by author. It’s always enjoyable to ...