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...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph. There first automobile was manufactured in 1923, it was the Triumph 10/20. In 1928, the Triumph Super 7 was introduced, it would be their first mass produced car. They continued...
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there...
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 Romeo Montreal, or the Ferrari Daytona. But probably the most iconic and well-known nickname is Mercedes’ Gullwing. The 300SL was a road car based on Mercedes’ 1952 W194 racecar. The...
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...
As Europe tried to recover from World War II, manufacturers began producing small cars to satisfy the need for personal...
Tom Tjaarda was born to design automobiles. His father John Tjaarda developed a concept car for the Ford Motor Company. It was called the “Briggs Dream Car” and it was a streamlined, rear-engined creation based on some of his earlier designs. It was eventually reworked to have the engine up...
What’s in a name? Let’s examine the two simple words that make up our feature car. Super: Very good or...
Carlo Abarth was born Karl Alberto Abarth, in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 1908 (He would go on to change...
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...
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...
Isothermos was a manufacture of refrigeration units before WWII. The company was founded in Genoa, in 1939, but was moved in 1942 to Bresso by Renzo Rivolta, an heir to industrialists and an engineer in his own right. The company was reestablished as Iso Autoveicoli S.p.A., in 1953, to reflect...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud series was produced between 1955 and 1966 with a production run of 7,372 units. The first...
In 2015, the Citroën DS celebrated its 60th anniversary, in style, in Paris. Over 700 DS owners traveled from all...
The tricyclecar, or trike, is a strange device in three wheels, at the midway between the motorbike and the car, its history goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. The dawn of the trike can be traced back to London in 1909, when Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan a...
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...
These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring the use of turbo technology with their racecars in the late ’60s and by ’72 they were developing a turbocharged 911. Originally, they were doing this to comply with homologation...
Ray Petros is a dedicated Studebaker collector. It is natural that he focuses on that marque, since his family were...
When you think of Volkswagen you don’t often use of the word rare, but in this case, with a 1958...
Max Hoffman was a racecar driver in Europe before immigrating to the United States to avoid the Nazis. Hoffman became an importer of European automobiles into the U.S., in the 1950s. Max was central in the creation of several iconic machines as he saw their potential in the American market....
