An amazing thing happened in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the fall of 2019. A couple of automobile enthusiasts proposed the Chattanooga...
Photographer Dave Gooley and I drove over to Gus’ Barbeque in Paramount, California, – a diner devoted exclusively to meat...
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), the world’s largest organization of its kind, held its annual Grand Nationals in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, this year. The event included AACA’s annual Zenith Award competition and its Grand Nationals car show. AACA’s annual Grand Nationals is always without question the Nation’s largest and...
In the early 1950s, Americans looked forward to attending auto shows for the unveiling of the manufacture’s latest offerings. Adding...
In 1959, Buick introduced the Invicta line of full-size sedans, as an evolution of the Buick Century married to a...
Buick’s unique and obscure Century X styling department custom will make its international concours debut in the Silver Anniversary Amelia Concours d’Elegance’s “Cars of Harley Earl” class on March 8, 2020. Bill Mitchell was Harley Earl’s hand-picked successor at GM Design and Styling. Their association seemed to go beyond the standard...
David Dubar Buick was born in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1854, and brought to Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 2....
Renowned GM stylist Harley Earl wanted to incorporate design elements inspired from post-war jet aircraft into the design language at...
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), the world’s largest organization of its kind, held its annual Grand Nationals in Auburn, Indiana, this past weekend. Hosted by the AACA National organization and the local Crossroads Region of the AACA, the four-day event included RM Auctions’ Auburn Spring Auction along with...
Some of Buick’s most iconic design features, including waterfall grilles and portholes on the hood, originated with the 1949 Roadmaster...
Considered today, to be the first “Concept Car”, Harley Earl’s 1938 Buick Y-Job was built on a 1937 Buick chassis. Earl...
Car Design is a wicked beast. The purpose of design is to create both alluring and engaging combinations of mechanical and sculptural elements as a means to attracts buyers willing to pay money to possess such an object. But once the car is released, a whole new series of considerations...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade...
Mecum Auctions will host the Chicagoland area’s only annual collector-car auction on the weekend of October 5-7 when Mecum Chicago...
Auctions America, an RM Sotheby’s company, continued a Labor Day tradition this past weekend, August 31–September 3, with its flagship Auburn Fall sale at the historic Auburn Auction Park. The four-day auction produced total sales of $19.2 million, with a strong 79 percent sell-through of all lots offered, more than...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
Auctions America enjoyed one of its best Auburn Spring sale results yet last weekend, generating nearly $10.2 million in total...
It was a 1941 Cadillac convertible that captured the judges on Sunday, Sept 11, 2016 at the Second Annual Ephraim Concours d’Elegance as John Nordstrom of Wisconsin was awarded the Arbor Crowne Properties Grand Elegance Award. The Concours was the conclusion of the Ephraim Hill Climb and Concours d’Elegance weekend in...
1949 Kurtis Sports Car [dropcap]F[/dropcap]rank Kurtis built racecars. He built many of the cars entered in the Indy 500 from...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and Skip Barber were enshrined during a March 2 dinner in Las Vegas for their contributions to SCCA racing. Shelby, more widely known as winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24...
VR: Why don’t we take a step right back to the very beginning. How did you first get started with...
The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in...
VR: You were born in Mexico, as I understand. TG: Yes, I was born in Mexico City in 1935. My dad was a civil engineer and had worked, when he was a young engineer, in Latin America so he spoke excellent Spanish. He was one of the more important developers...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford – whose disregard for art was very public – had to give up his Model T and allow a little style to creep into his designs in order to encourage...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance,...
I had just been discharged from the Army and was pursuing my education with the help of the GI Bill. My Uncle Phil, who had just bought a new Austin Healey 100, invited me to go with him to a sports car race at Palm Springs. I didn’t know what...
