1935 MG Airline Coupé Every once in a while an incredible opportunity falls in your lap. A few months ago, I got an email from Vintage Roadcar publisher Casey Annis: “Are you planning on going to Hilton Head?” I was considering attending my first Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d’Elegance in November, so...
After 117 years, I’m finally getting around to figuring out Opel… I enjoyed speaking with Rich Taylor last month about his long involvement in the hobby and automotive journalism. I found it fascinating that he originally started working for Car and Driver because he won a car from them! Even more surprising was the fact...
Enthusiast, Collector and Driving Force Behind the Glenmoor Gathering VR: Let’s just start off at the very beginning. When did you first get bitten by the car bug? MV: My folks tell me from the time I was a little kid—we lived in Greece until I was almost five—they said I used to sit on...
At the 1968 Paris Motor Show, Alfa Romeo unveiled a stunning concept car known as the Carabo. Designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, the Carabo was a revolutionary, wedge-shaped design built on an Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale chassis. Many aspects of the Carabo would be seen again years later in Gandini’s Lamborghini Countach design....
Porsche, throughout its racing career, has created some of the most iconic machines of all time: the RSK, 904, 906, 908… and, of course, the 917. Also among these celebrated creations is the 911 RSR: a purpose-built racer created to compete in the GT category. In 1973, two “privateer” RSRs fought it out tooth and...
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The Schlumpf Automobile Collection First published in 1989, this three-language review of the famed Schlumpf automobile collection in Mulhouse, France, is now available in softcover. With 181 pages of photographs and text, this work chronicles and categorizes the nearly 500 vehicles that made up the famed French textile heirs’ collection, including 122 Bugattis (!), dozens of rare Mercedes, Maserati, Gordini, Ferrari, De Dion, Renault, Maybach and Alfa Romeo, as well as significant examples of one-offs and works prototypes. In addition to the cars, the text also explores the history of the Schlumpf family and fortune, including the 1976 revolution by…
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place Sunday April 9 under sunny skies on the Concours lawn at Ellen Scripps Browning Park on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Southern California enclave of the same name. Trophies were awarded in 17 judged classes and 11 specialty categories, as well as Best in Show, Most Outstanding Prewar and Most Outstanding Postwar. Best in Show honors went to Ron and Sandy Hansen for their 1921 Duesenberg A Dual Cowl Phaeton (above, photo courtesy of La Jolla Concours). The other winners are listed below, and for more information please…