As our own Jeff Koch can attest, Southern California is an easy place to have your collector car jacked. One of the latest victims turned up on our My Hemmings pages a couple of days ago.
Robert ushered in the New Year in the worst way imaginable: Waking up to find his 1956 Nomad hotrod gone. […]
One of the most visible signs of the acquisition of MG-Rover by Nanjing (itself now owned by SAIC), has been the demolishing of the venerable factory at Longbridge over the last year.
Well, Nanjing may have been able to rip the factory down, but it looks as though they couldn’t erase its memory entirely, as very […]
For about 11 months about 35 years ago, Rich Taylor was editor-in-chief of SIA. He’s better known from The New York Times, R&T or Popular Mechanics, but today, he runs GT car rally/tours. The New England 1000 group stopped in yesterday, and if you’re expecting the sort of group that used to show up back […]
So RM and Sotheby’s Ferrari extravaganza is behind us…let’s have a Day of Rolls-Royce.
At Gooding & Co.’s sale on August 19th at Pebble Beach, they’re going to offer the Silver Ghost collection of Richard J. Solove. This is far from being just another rich guy cashing in on the collector car market; just the […]
The Supra-LeMans is way cool, no doubt, but without context, isn’t any more than that. There’s deep thought behind this project, though, as we asked Ralf Becker about his inspiration. He talks about his “remixing-idea,” the “cultural bastard” project. He also mentioned that, in the spirit of German eco-friendliness, he’s planning on 108-octane bio-methanol power, […]
I’ve photo-hacked away some features, as well as changing one crucial detail. So go ahead: Name That Car!
OK, no-one’s getting anywhere, so I’ll hint you up early. I did mention I changed one crucial detail:
But it ain’t no Crown. If you’re dyin’, go ahead and click on the above.
Continuing with 1953 from yesterday, today’s car is a Touring-bodied 1953 Ferrari 340 MM Competition Spyder. It’s the only surviving example, he ex-Giuseppe Farina 1953 Mille Miglia factory entry.
SPECS:
Chassis No. 0268 AM
Engine No. 0268 AM
300hp 4,101cc single overhead camshaft V-12 with three four-barrel Weber 40DCF/3 carburetors, single-plug ignition with dual Marelli magnetos, four-speed manual […]
Perhaps you NASCAR fans know all about this, but to us Bollywood nuts this is news: It’s Ta Ra Rum Pum, to my knowledge to first Bollywood/NASCAR crossover movie…and certainly one of a very, very, very, very, very, very small number of major NASCAR-themed musical motion pictures.
And who knew Chevy had an Aveo on the […]
So you like the Nissan Sunny (Sentra), but you think it lacks power, even the Gti-R. At the same time, you’ve got access to a wrecked F355. That’s right, put your hands together. And stick that big ole V-8 and rear transaxle where your hatchback’s rear seat and trunk used to be.
Tuningkultur via Chromjuwlen
On May 20, RM and Sotheby’s are launching themselves together into a bold new realm, with a joint auction at Ferrari in Maranello. For RM, it’s their first foray into the heated and highly-competitive European auction scene; for Sotheby’s, we think it probably helps them get more access to the US—while they’ve had a car […]
There’s a huge slate of auctions this June, and no way I could fit everything in. I was really hoping that this one for Christie’s sale at Greenwich would run, but it didn’t. There’s also a great sale of Henry Seagrave memorabilia from Bonham’s that deserves a mention, and while I’m at it, here’s your […]
Flying car, schmlying car. The good people over at Gibbs–makers of the Aquada swimming car thing–have landed themselves a fat contract with the US Government. In association with Lockheed-Martin, Gibbs will be developing–we kid you not–Aquadas, Humdingas and Quadskis (Why not crack open a cool, refreshing Gibbs Quadski today?) for military applications. They will, alas, […]
I mean, really geddon it?
When the US Army goes racing, they pay Tony Schumacher to slather brown and yellow stickers all over himself. When the Australian Department of Defense went racing, they hired Starr Performance (warning: mostly really crummy build pics) to take a vehicle iconic of Anglo armies worldwide, in this case a Land […]
I seldom put up anything from my own collection, partly because I’m inherently lazy but mostly because it’s a pain in the butt if I have to scan something on a Mac in the Art Department and somehow get it to my PC, not that you care.
But now that we’re back online after a cut […]
To recap, after the long hulabaloo about Christie’s withdrawal of their 1938/39 Type D from auction in February, the saga of authenticating it and the questions that devolved from that, the venerable South Kensington auction house decided to sell the car via sealed bidding.
After tallying the results yesterday, they came to their conclusion: None […]
Thanks to your response to our first batch of historical Fiat racing/Abarth videos, we scared up two more from Fiat, these in FiaVision. Which still doesn’t have sound because in Italy, the cars speak for themselves.
Abarth in the 1960’s: Fiat 500 circuit race
Abarth in the 1970’s: Fiat performance cars
Why does Auto Trader UK have a slide show of rolling road hazards from Azerbaijan? We have no clue. But it’s a perfect contribution to what seems to be turning into Central Asia and Europe Week. Whoopee!
Previously in Central Asia and Europe Week:Busójárás! Hungarian Carny Extravaganza!
Los cholo locos at tha Jalop’ are having some fun with our bud Bruce Weiner’s “Whattadrag” Chevy 502-powered Isetta, and we’re lovers of all things microcar around here, too.
Whattadrag is often confused with the “Urkel Dragster,” but it ain’t the same car. In fact, we last saw the Isetta Roketta in Branson a year and […]
Warning: Contains slight Trabant content
No, we don’t know how it’s pronounced, and you can read up about why the people of Mohács, in Hungary, wear oddly reindeer-like costumes for the Busójárás holiday. It is, as Totalcar says, 60% Muppet Show and 40% folklore. We just dig what we’re going to call their parade floats. It’s […]
Late reports yesterday suggest that a two-week-old strike at Harley-Davidson’s huge York, Pennsylvania, manufacturing plant may be over.
The walk-out began on February 2, when 2,800 workers laid down their tools in protest over a new three-year health care and benefits plan, which union leaders said would create a “two-tiered” system of benefits, and cost employees […]