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Photos courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Did he plan to take it racing? Did he plan to use it as a testbed for exotic materials? Or did Zora Arkus-Duntov have something else in mind when he laid out the mid-engine CERV I experimental car? Whatever his intentions, he set off decades of Read more
The 1949 Ferrari 166 Mille Miglia once raced by Jim Kimberly. Photos courtesy Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Pebble Beach in August is all about the most gorgeous cars on the planet, and auctions where you can shop for them. Now it’s also about rolling heritage that goes back to the Read more
Aerial view of the Nardo facility. Photos courtesy of Porsche AG. Among engineers and others in the know, it’s spoken of in the same revered tones as race tracks like the Nuerburgring, Monza and the Circuit de la Sarthe. It’s seen countless distance and endurance records fall on its banked Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Where else can you get a history lesson, solid scientific research and a happy ending – wrapped in a patriotic theme – in less than nine minutes? In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Englishman Horatio Phillips (who we think looks a Read more
Somewhere on Long Island, sometime during the 1973-1974 OPEC oil crisis, a few dozen motorists – maybe more that we don’t see outside the frame of the photo – jostled for position at this Texaco gas station, as we see in this AP photo used extensively since then to illustrate Read more
In the mid-1970s, few domestic coupes did luxury as well as Lincoln’s Mark IV Continental. It’s easy enough to find used Mark IVs in our classifieds – after all, Ford built 278,599 examples between 1972 and 1976 – but what caught our eye about this 1975 Lincoln Continental Mk IV, Read more
1934 MG PA chassis 1711. Photos by Tim Scott, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Seeking to put the brand into the media spotlight, MG announced a bold move for the 1935 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Under the guidance of Captain George Eyston, the factory would enter three cars Read more
The Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese, Milan, Italy. Photos courtesy FCA. Storied Italian marque Alfa Romeo, now part of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) family, celebrates its 105th anniversary in 2015. Critical to the future success of the brand is the launch of an all-new Giulia model, and in an Read more
Photos by author. As a vintage car enthusiast, your eyes are always darting about, looking for that one piece of automotive treasure that – for some reason – you just can’t live without. Some might call it a sickness; others, a blessing – but in our demented minds, collecting tantalizing Read more
Part of the museum’s HO scale train layout. Photos courtesy Hans-Peter Porsche TraumWerk. When your family name is Porsche, you learn from an early age to dream big. That’s certainly the case with Hans-Peter Porsche, the son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and a member of the Supervisory Read more