I saw the book of bills the seller had assembled, and the claimed $120,000 spent on restoration was well documented, if a bit outrageous Of the more than 77,000 GTOs built in 1968, fewer than 10,000 were convertibles. The meticulously restored GTO pictured here has only 68,000 original miles and […]
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1952 Nash-Healey Le Mans Sports Racer
If the Cobra is a vaguely tamed raging bull, the Nash-Healey is more of a friendly mutt, concocted while under the influence of cocktails out on the bounding seas The Nash-Healey marque came about from a chance meeting on an ocean liner in 1949. English sports car designer and builder […]
1960 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider
Maintaining the Solex PH44 carburetors, with their prone-to-malfunction secondaries, is enough to drive almost any technician to heavy drink In 1950, Alfa Romeo turned away from the costly and complicated, hand-built, eight- and six-cylinder high performance sports and racing cars that had made their name before World War II. The […]
1980 Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer
The catalog description went into great detail about it being a fuel-injected car, but it was hard to mistake the four Webers The mid-engined Lamborghini Miura brought Formula One chassis design to the street in the mid-1960s. Ferrari’s response was the 365 GTB/4 Berlinetta Boxer, unveiled at the 1971 Turin […]
1930 Bentley Speed Six 6 1/2 Liter Le Mans Replica
At the heart of the Speed Six legend was a phenomenal chassis, which led to many original bodies being replaced with lightweight, homemade, “boy-racer” coachwork The Bentley Speed Six positively shone in long distance endurance racing. At Le Mans in 1929, Woolf Barnato and Tim Birkin stormed to victory at […]
1970 Moretti Sportiva
The heavy body weighed 1,500 pounds, too much for its puny 47-hp motor Giovanni Moretti founded his company in 1925, and started off designing and building motorcycles. The Cita, built in 1946, a tiny two-seater powered by an air-cooled 250-cc motor, was Moretti’s first conventional car. In 1949, Moretti introduced […]
“I Don’t Care What You Say, You’ll Never Have As Many Cars As Harold E. LeMay”
Harold LeMay was a car guy, just like you and me in a lot of ways. He figured out how to use his day job, owning waste-hauling franchises, to help him build his car collection. Myth has it he paid a spiff to garbage collectors who told him about interesting […]
1985-87 Honda CRX Si
The real appeal was a 0-60 time below nine seconds, quicker than a Porsche 944 By the end of the fuel-crisis-plagued 1970s, Honda and its Japanese counterparts had all but beaten the American auto industry into submission with legions of cheap and highly efficient pint-sized sedans and hatchbacks. American […]
1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Sport Cabriolet
Restoring a 540K is not for the faint of heart. The chrome bill alone on these cars can run close to $50,000 Mercedes-Benz introduced the 500K in 1934. The “K” designation stood for Kompressor, German for supercharger. With power increasing from 100 hp to 160 hp when the supercharger engaged, […]
1930 Pierce-Arrow Model B Convertible Coupe
If you own one of these old chariots and you’ve been thinking about parting with it, this would be a good time to act Before entering the automotive business in 1901, the George N. Pierce Company of Buffalo, NY, had been engaged in making such diverse products as birdcages and […]