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Howard Hughes’ 1953 Buick Roadmaster, part of the Ron Pratte Collection. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. The last time the custom 1953 Buick Roadmaster built for billionaire, recluse and germaphobe Howard Hughes crossed the auction stage, a three-way bidding war produced a selling price of $1.65 million, a record for a production Read more
Brian Lister (L), with his Lister Motor Car team in November of 2014. Photo courtesy Lister Cars. Brian Lister, whose cars carried the Union Jack in international sports car racing once Jaguar ended its competition program in the middle 1950s, died on Tuesday, December 16. He was 88. Lister is Read more
Photos by Graham Lloyd. In light of Wednesday’s announcement that the United States would be restoring full diplomatic relations with Cuba, including the opening of embassies in both Havana and Washington, D.C., we though it appropriate to run a gallery of automotive images captured by reader Graham Lloyd on a Read more
Screen grab from video below. Max Rockatansky is back, and apparently as mad as ever. But you’re going to have to wait a few months before you get a chance to see him in action. In the meantime, make do with the movie’s first official trailer. In development for decades, Read more
Looking north up Second Avenue in Upland, California, in this postcard photo uploaded to Flickr by Ryan Khatam, we see a little of the Upland downtown, plenty of cars to either side of the avenue, and majestic Mount Baldy in the background. Given thefact that there’s no snow on Mount Read more
Interiors can tell you a lot about a car. For example, something with really nice paint but shabby upholstery and worn carpets likely is a slap-it-up special, repainted just to move it out the door. On the other hand, this 1967 Buick Skylark for sale on Hemmings.com looks decent enough Read more
Jaguar XJR-9, chassis #388. Photos by Tim Scott/Fluid Images, courtesy RM Auctions. As the 1980s came to a close, Porsche, Nissan and Jaguar were locked in a three-way battle for dominance in sportscar endurance racing. In 1988, Jaguar unleashed its latest four-wheel weapon to challenge for the title, and the Read more
The 1956 Corvette, prior to rescue. Photo by Richard Prince, courtesy of Richard Prince Photography. Jerry Seinfeld knows a thing or two about making people laugh. His latest series, the web-only Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, has developed a huge following, and with good reason: It’s funny stuff. This week’s Read more
John Teller’s 1946 Harley-Davidson knucklehead. Photos courtesy of Screenbid.com Online auction site ScreenBid.com is currently auctioning some of the props used in the seven-year television series Sons of Anarchy, with some of the profits from the auction to go to several charities. Some of the items up for grabs in Read more
What is it about a junkyard that unleashes creativity? In the last decade or so, junkyard photos have become a genre unto themselves, and there’s no small amount of us who would love to spend our days running around ‘em, combining parts from different cars into Dr. Moreau-like combinations. And Read more