Among its contemporaries, Porsche was the first to expand into SUVs and offer a hybrid, and with the launch of the production version of the Mission E concept will likely be the first with an electric car. Porsche has a long record of innovation and is once again breaking new ground with the establishment of […]
Add another event to your Monterey Car Week calendar. A Tribute to the Can-Am 50th Anniversary Gala will be held on Saturday, August 20, at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, the night before the Pebble Beach Concours. Porsche 917-30 Can-Am Spyder. Image courtesy of Porsche. Presented by title sponsors Victory Lane magazine and Rick Cole Auctions, the […]
While Camaro production officially began in August 1966, a month before Chevrolet unveiled its Mustang fighter to the public, Chevrolet needed to know that production would ensue smoothly, so the division set up pilot production lines at its Norwood and Los Angeles assembly plants to build – and in some cases re-build – 52 cars, […]
Since they’re 11.5 inches wide and fill every horizontal millimeter of the fender opening, the crazy-sexy rear-end sheet metal curves are likewise as close. I register those rock walls peripherally, robotically; I register the center yellow line as a scribbled suggestion on the tight, impeccable pavement; I watch the tach needle do its insane dance […]
The man is making a point. Farthest from us is an untouched, stock arm from a late-’60s 911. Next is the same arm, but with a few chunks sheared off and the edges left jagged. Nearest to us is an identical arm, but remodeled with gleaming, fresh welds, customized to fit the shop’s newest creation. […]
The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in.” And there’s no doubt Ferrari put all his heart and soul into making beautiful cars to hold those engines, but then again, he did need something worthy to frame the true masterpiece under the hood. Enzo Ferrari once said, “I […]
“We came away from that meeting bitterly disappointed,” said Louise Ann Noeth, spokeswoman for the Utah Alliance, an organization created to represent Bonneville racers. After Bureau of Land Management officials urged patience and recommended another study of the shrinking salt at last week’s Bonneville Salt Flats summit in Salt Lake City, racers in attendance at […]
Even those with little interest in racing can recognize the white Volkswagen Beetle with red and blue stripes, wearing the number 53 in its meatball, as “Herbie, the Love Bug.” The star of six Disney motion pictures, countless Volkswagen Beetles have been modified over the years to portray the anthropomorphic automobile, and screen-used examples tend […]
It might not be Barris material, but there’s little doubt it’s authentic, with a design language that incorporates a good amount of the vernacular, and it seems to have been well preserved with no updating since. Even without any provenance attached to it, this 1954 Oldsmobile 98 custom for sale on Hemmings.com is a good […]
Over the last 10 years cars are doubling, if not tripling, in value depending on their condition and rarity, and the market doesn’t seem to be shrinking. This 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo Signature Series will likely not buck that high-dollar trend. For investing in one’s retirement, there’s no better purchase than a classic Porsche 911. […]
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