Carroll Shelby had a thing for speed. First, it was airplanes. During the war, Shelby flew everything from a Beechcraft...
In 1962, Alfa Romeo came out with a new machine, the Giulia. It was actually a series of machines. There...
Just after midnight, in February 1973, there was a battle being waged on a Daytona Beach, Florida race track. All of the heavy-hitters from Lola, Mirage and Matra had fallen by the wayside. The two cars trading places were not factory entries, they were two very separate and independent teams:...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph....
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up in the local jail. They came upon the perfect location in Braselton, Georgia. Road Atlanta. The 2.54-mile, 12-turn course was the perfect place to have some high-speed fun. The event...
The Appia was introduced as Lancia’s new entry-level car in the 1950s. It started out as a passenger car in...
There are a number of cars that are better known by their nicknames, than their original designation, like the Alfa...
For decades Porsche has created some of the most intriguing and desirable road cars on the planet. But even with all that excellence, there are still certain machines that stand out from this very exemplary crowd. The ingenious and complex 4-cam 356, the original 911, and then the 1973 RS,...
In October of 1964, the 275 GTB was revealed at the Grand Palais in Paris, showing styling cues influenced by...
Porsche put the word out to all its foreign concessionaires, in the summer of 1958, the now 4-year old rough...
There are many distinguishing features of Jaguar’s big cat XKE. Disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering and independent front and rear suspension, just to name a few. It was a big jump from the XK150, but all you had to do was to look at the three times in a row Le...
In 1963, the Giulia Sprint GT was first shown to the press at Alfa’s recently opened plant in Arese, followed...
Tom Tjaarda was born to design automobiles. His father John Tjaarda developed a concept car for the Ford Motor Company....
What’s in a name? Let’s examine the two simple words that make up our feature car. Super: Very good or pleasant, excellent. The dictionary says, the adjective super is an abbreviated use of the prefix super-, which comes from the Latin meaning “above,” “over,” or “beyond.” Super is another way to say “the best” —...
Carlo Abarth was born Karl Alberto Abarth, in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 1908 (He would go on to change...
It’s the swinging ’60s in London, you’re the daughter of an industrialist, your husband disappeared over the Amazonian rain forrest,...
The 330 GTC was unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Salon and was an amalgam of other Ferraris. It shared its 94.5-inch wheelbase and tubular steel chassis with the 275 GTB, and its 4-liter, V-12 motor was the same as the one powering the 330 GT 2+2. The Pininfarina-styled body was...
In 1966, at the Turin Motor Show, the world got its first look at the Maserati Ghibli, as a two-seat...
The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 made its first appearance to an enthusiastic world at the Paris Auto Salon in 1968. It...
In 1948, Jaguar launched the wild and wooly XK120 at the London Motor Show. It was a testbed and show car to display the new William Heynes designed XK engine. The show car was a sensation and created quite a stir. Jaguar’s founder and chairman William Lyons had no other...
When you hear the two words Aston and Martin, you unconsciously start playing the James Bond theme music in your...
Enzo Ferrari’s focus was on racing, not road cars, but he needed money to finance his racing addiction, so he...
In 1896, in Suresnes a western suburb of Paris, Alexandre Darracq started his business, A Darracg & Cie. His business was building road and racecars. Darracq would go on to become famous for the success of his racecars. But by 1912, Darracq had sold off what remained of his business....
Isothermos was a manufacture of refrigeration units before WWII. The company was founded in Genoa, in 1939, but was moved...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud series was produced between 1955 and 1966 with a production run of 7,372 units. The first...
Jim Petty and his wife Wendy had been watching the news for two weeks straight and seeing what the pandemic was doing to some of the more challenged communities as the lock-down and quarantine unfolded. He knew there was a stimulus package, but it would dry up pretty quickly. It...
During the late ’50s and early ’60s American racers were doing battle in a wide variety of homebuilt racecars and...
It was September of 1964, when Porsche brought out the Ferry “Butzi” Porsche designed 6-cylinder 911 as the successor to...
There have been a number of British manufacturers who have taken their smaller, less powerful motors out of their sports cars and dropped a nasty, fire-breathing V8 in its place. We know what “Texas Carroll” did first to the AC and then the Sunbeam Alpine. Small car + big engine...
