Auto Royale has today announced ten rare coachbuilt-bodied cars participating across the 11 traditional classes of its British International Concours...
There is a saying, “an apple never falls far from its tree” and similarly a carrossier needs strong antecedents. The...
May 2018 The first major car show I attended was the 1971 L.A. Auto Expo. As a wide-eyed nine-year-old, everything seemed special. Bright colors, racy shapes, and a handful of pretty ladies (still a few years away from becoming a distraction from cars) the event was largely dominated by the...
May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale,...
1958 Fiat-Abarth 750 GT Zagato There is much to love about the Italian “Etceterini.” The term broadly refers to low-production,...
April 2018 The Bertone Collection By Gautam Sen & Michael Robinson Many of the iconic vehicles of the second half of the 20th century, from simple, but beautiful Fiats, Citroëns and BMWs, to many astounding Alfa Romeos, Lancias, Maseratis and Lamborghinis, rolled out of the coachbuilding facilities of Carrozzeria Bertone,...
I pedaled my bike past the edge of our main street and down the Santa Monica canyon road toward the...
During the early days of the automobile (1890–1940), coachbuilding—the construction of bodywork for a vehicle—was as vital a part of...
October 2017 Age of Aquarius Dear Editor I can’t figure out those folks at Rick Dore Kustoms. They have built some of the most beautiful custom cars around, centerpieces at any car show at which they appear, and yet someone (presumably an employee) has either a warped sense of humor...
Woods & Woods is a father and son coachbuilding business located on the Central Coast of the Australian state of...
Today fins are remembered as the outward expression of our automotive engineering prowess during the height of American postwar optimism,...
After World War II, many of the world’s auto manufacturers returned to car production embracing many of the technologies and manufacturing innovations developed as a result of the war effort. Aerodynamics and unit-body construction were just a few of the advents refined by the war effort that would soon become...
The 275 GTB occupies a very rarified space in the pantheon of Ferrari road car history. It sits at an...
With Mark Nugent, it certainly is in his blood as father Kevin has been involved in the motor vehicle repair...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a date that both the company and most of the media have got wrong. Jaguar Cars Ltd. was registered in March, 1945, Jaguar had been the name of some models made by...
Pikes Peak, Manitou Springs, CO July 16–20, 2008...
One of the things I miss is the old-style motor show. Manufacturers tended to keep their new models until just before, and then they came as a surprise. There were no “scoop” photographs in magazines months, or years, before an announcement, nor was there the suspicion that the photographer had...
Rocky Mountains, CO Sept. 10-15...
