One would expect a member of a royal family to have a stable of collector cars, of course, but full of high-end luxury and sports cars, not something like this 1962 BMW Isetta for sale on Hemmings.com, which belongs to Read more
* When C.J. Titterington bought his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, it was just a beat-up race car, but he stuck with it over the years, restoring and refining it into the black beauty it is today. Rick Tavel at CorvetteBlogger.com Read more
Filed under: Volkswagen, Humor, Skoda Skoda, oh Skoda. You’re just so cool. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a brand that we don’t get in these United States, but Skoda’s rebadged Volkswagens, in particular the new Octavia vRS shown here, Read more
Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Safety, Mercedes-Benz The brief alphanumerics R134a and R1234yf are codes for a growing battle between carmakers, states and the EU. The air-conditioning refrigerant R134a has been banned by the EU for being too damaging to the Read more
Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we’ve got reports from MotoringConBrio, Hooniverse, and PistonHeads. Read more…
One of several proposed exterior designs for the Petersen Museum. Image courtesy of the Petersen Museum. After selling a number of items from its collection and planning to sell more at an upcoming auction, representatives from the Petersen Automotive Museum Read more
New Roadkill! Mini bikes and a hot rod ’74 Chevy shortbed stepside. Holy crapola do I want that truck. (Hat tip to Sparf!) Read more…
As the Mopar Blog pointed out this week, the entirety of the 1971 made-for-TV (and later, theatrically released) film “Duel” is now on YouTube. Fun fact: The 149PCE California blue plate that Mann’s Valiant wears was incorrect for the early Read more
According to the caption for this John H. White photo for the Documerica project, taken in 1973, the Monroe Street commuter parking lot at Lake Shore Drive had enough parking spaces for 2,700 cars and would later be expanded to Read more
Henry Ford didn’t quite go through the entire alphabet before he got to the Model T, but he came pretty close, and while some of those pre-T Fords represented an entirely different automotive philosophy than the T (big, expensive cars Read more