A water-cooled engine? And it’s at the front? And it’s a Porsche?! The motoring press in the late ’70s couldn’t...
Month: February 2015
Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly difficult to be...
A few miles north of Paso Robles we come up over a rise on a rolling two-lane road through Central California’s...
It began in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851 when Daniel W. Marmon and his partner, a fellow named Nordyke, began manufacturing...
The picturesque village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, home to approximately 700 souls, is little known to most, even to those living...
Do these bellbottoms make my car look fat? Show of hands…how many of you sported a pair of bellbottoms in...
Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed the car, Adrian Newey, as the...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
Whoosh-bang. That sort of gives an impression of Ross Brawn’s 2009 Formula One season. The year of the spectacularly successful,...
69 Pit Stop 2CV Watch Unusual by today’s standards, the speedometer of the early 2CV [See this month’s “Driven”] was...
My father, Walt Hansgen, raced from 1951 to 1966, competing in 244 events and winning 106 of them. Initially he...
Motor racing is a very expensive hobby, but once you start with a taste at a racing school like Jim...
Harold Pace was a once-in-a-lifetime Texas car guy and a dedicated student of the automobile. He studied his craft with...
One of America’s earliest female racing drivers has passed away at the age of 86 from heart failure. Mary Davis...
To mark its two decades of promoting automotive excellence, the 20th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13-15, 2015,...
Two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr. will be the guest of honor at the 6th annual Motorsports & Memories...
A gala celebrating Art Chrisman’s six-plus decades of land speed racing, drag racing, and hot rodding was held at the...
Masters Historic Racing, which organizes the FIA Masters Historic Formula One and FIA Masters Historic Sports Car championships, has announced...
In convoy with a Ferrari 365 GT 2+2, no one seemed to notice the intensely red Ferrari. Instead, fingers pointed...
Recently, yet another attempt to revive the Allard name was announced. There have been three Allard revivals to my knowledge,...
Masha Pasichnyk is a 23-year-old artist from Kiev, Ukraine, who is visiting the USA at present. Her interest in car...
Car design has been a key part of automotive history since the very first series of carriages was built for...
• On February 6, Artcurial Motorcars returns to Paris for the official Retromobile Salon auction sale. In 2015, there will be...
The Vintage Racecar/Vintage Roadcar European office took to the road in mid- November, exhibiting at The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor...
LeMay—America’s Car Museum (ACM) has announced that at least three new exhibits will be introduced in 2015: “Ford F-Series: The...
Provenance, some say, is everything in a collector car. If indeed that is true, RM Auctions will make a very...
