While NSX devotees continue to explain why their car should be accepted as a "real" supercar, Toyota 2000GT owners need make no such excusesToyota's 2000GT is widely acclaimed as the first Japanese car to be taken seriously by Western critics-th...
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The $169,000 achieved in Geneva for #99 represents an 82% appreciation in 48 monthsJust before the outbreak of WWII, the Maserati brothers sold their company to industrialist Adolfo Orsi. Not long after the war was over, they decided their real ...
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This car owes its name to Nuvolari's heroic drive in the 1947 Mille Miglia, while its aggressive shape owes a great deal to pre-WWII aerodynamicsItalian industrialist Piero Dusio built up the Consorzio Industriale Sportivo Italia into a successf...
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Originally a bicycle manufacturer, and probably best known as a maker of fine racing motorcycles, Edoardo Bianchi built his first automobile in the early 1900s. A wide variety of models followed over the next 30 years, though by 1940 the firm wa...
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This car needs someone to sort it out and drive it. When these are right, they make superb vintage rally and tour mountsVincenzo Lancia loved automobiles, driving and motoring competition. The delectable machines that flowed from the factory wer...
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British troops called the gasoline-powered American tanks 'Ronsons.' Like the cigarette lighter slogan of the day, they 'lit the first time when struck'The catalog description for the M3 Stuart light tank was sparse but pithy. Manufacturer: Amer...
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The teenagers who had Farrah Fawcett posters have grown up and (loud groan) have started to collect 1980s carsThe sensation of the 1971 Geneva Salon, the Countach was styled, like its predecessor, by Bertone's Marcello Gandini. Lamborghini's fou...
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Positioning a V8 against the 6-cylinders of Ferrari, Porsche, and Maserati must have seemed like a good idea at the timeThe note from the previous owner that accompanied this 1977 Lamborghini Urraco to auction was brief and to the point. "There ...
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Citroën wouldn't sell Chapron any separate chassis, so he was reduced to buying complete cars and dismantling themThe Citroёn DS19 was launched on an unsuspecting world in 1955 and continued to be France's car of choice well into the 1970...
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I suspect this car falls into the same class of collectible as hearses-you can't get away from the Dark SideThis Russian Gaz-13 "Chaika" limousine is number 2,511 of only 3,719 built between 1959 and 1981. The Chaika-which means Gull-was favored...
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In 1970, after just 7,136 km, this unique V12 Granturismo was bricked up in a garage on a busy streetLamborghini's first model-the 350 GT-wowed the motoring press and public at its 1964 launch. Not content to rest on their laurels, Lamborghini's...
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The first stop would be the annual London-to-Brighton Commemorative RunThe first Panhard rolled out in 1891, and in 1892 this pioneer firm created the mechanical layout nearly all other successful manufacturers would follow: front engine, midshi...
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I had always wanted one, perhaps because, like me, the car was Swiss-born, but with an American heartWith its beautiful, squatted-back, ready-to-pounce body styling, the Monteverdi 375 S was designed to be the definitive combination of luxury an...
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Lack of records makes it very difficult to tell a factory Abarth from one built by Uncle Giorgio's Garage(Note: In the auction catalog, there was an addendum that declared that this particular car was in fact a Fiat 750 rather than an 850. As it...
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Like all bottom feeders and wanna-bees, I hoped to steal this unrestored carAs the first volume-built production Maseratis, marketed from 1957 to 1964, these extremely handsome Grand Touring coupes became the company's financial saviors during a...
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