1983 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Veloce in Carlisle, PA

BMW’s 320i had a great run in the 1970s and ’80s. The Pick of the Day is one of the last of the breed, a 1983 BMW 320i, advertised for sale on ClassicCars.com by only its third owner.  “I am the third owner of this vehicle,” the seller reports. “I bought it in March 2017 […]

It was May 29, 1960, that Stirling Moss and Lotus took Formula 1 in a new direction, Group Lotus says as it celebrates the 60th anniversary of that victory. “It was a classic David vs Goliath story,” said Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder Colin Chapman. “On 29 May 1960, Sir Stirling Moss drove his […]

After decades apart, Ford and Carroll Shelby reunited in the early 2000s, and one of the first projects of the reconstituted partnership was a 21st century Cobra. The Shelby Cobra concept debuted at the 2004 Detroit auto show, and is now owned by Chris Theodore, one of the designers who worked on it. The car, Chris […]

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum has set July 7 as its re-opening date under the Indiana governor’s guidelines and will extend its “From the Vault” exhibition of vehicles through mid-July. A new exhibit will be introduced August 1 and will run through June 20, 2021, the museum said.  But the Vault display isn’t going away. […]

On May 28, Nissan staged a presentation entitled, “Nissan unveils transformation plan to prioritize sustainable growth and profitability.” But just when you were ready to yawn in boredom, it also shared on its YouTube channel a one-minute video, “Nissan Next: From A to Z” that included its next Z sports car. Well, at least it […]

The Porsche 911 Targa with its integral roll bar was as much a product of necessity as creativity.  Safety advocates in the 1960s were targeting convertibles as inherently dangerous at the same time that Porsche was planning to produce its new 911 with a drop top. The imaginative solution was… viola!… a built-in roll bar […]

Panel trucks have been around for over a century, and they are relatives in many ways to the sport utility vehicles that have become so abundant on modern roadways.  The idea behind the panel was to provide secure cargo-carrying capacity with a fully enclosed body.  Ford was an early pioneer in the movement, and one […]

James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, dubbed “the most-famous car in the world” after its appearance in the 1964 film Goldfinger, springs back to life as Aston Martin creates a limited run of DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars. Just 25 of the iconic DB5 coupes will be built, the company says, all in Birch Silver like the […]

It was back in 1970 that General Motors opened its British proving grounds, Millbrook, in Bedfordshire, where the facility was dedicated to the testing and development of Vauxhall and Bedford vehicles. Now owned by Spectris, the Millbrook Providing Grounds is celebrating its 50th anniversary, albeit on a lower-key, pandemic basis so far. Spectris, which is […]

Silverstone Auctions staged its first “live online” collector car auction and reports a sell-through rate of 89 percent with £4.64 million (nearly $5.69 million) in overall sales. Topping the auction were a 1962 Jaguar D-type short-nose re-creation that sold for £390,500 ($478,525) and a 1984 Peugeot 205 T16 Group B that brought £306,000 ($374,980; Silverstone […]