For Sale: 1972 Plymouth Duster in Concord, North Carolina

In all likelihood, Carroll Shelby was inspired to fit American V8s in lightweight British sports cars from his experience with Allards, which he drove competitively in the early 1950s, a decade before his team rolled out the iconic Cobra. Sydney Allard, like Shelby, was a colorful racer and car builder, though in reserved British style […]

The most basic element for getting a feel for high performance or spirited driving is an arrive and drive autocross. Miles Ahead provides the cars, the course and instruction. As part of the Mini Challenge, the group puts participants in John Cooper Works Mini Coopers, “a pocket rocket,” according to Ted Woerner, and sends them […]

Can you imagine Mona Lisa in a Ducati motorcycle jacket and holding her customized helmet? Well, you don’t have to imagine such an image because it has been painted by Jisbar, the prominent pop-street artist otherwise known as Jean-Baptiste Launay, a Frenchman whose art, entitled Ducati Mona Lisa, will be offered at auction July 16 […]

From coast to coast and border to border, nearly 50 special events are planned to celebrate Collector Car Appreciation Day, according to the calendar complied by the SEMA Action Network.  The official and Congressionally recognized day of celebration for the collector car hobby is July 10, but the events start as early as July 9 […]

Toyota will reproduce and sell parts for the 2000GT sports car through its Gazoo Racing division. Parts will be sold both in Toyota’s home country of Japan and overseas, the automaker said in a press release Monday. Launched in 1967, the 2000GT is one of Toyota’s earliest performance cars, and one of its rarest. Just […]

Whether you have any interest or not in professional golf, you might find it interesting to know that PGA Tour pro Maverick McNealy was named after the Ford Maverick. And that his brothers are Dakota, Colt and Scout. “My three brothers and I are all named after American cars,” McNealy told the Detroit Free Press […]

In 2019, an Italian court determined that the Ferrari 250 GTO was a work of art and could not be reproduced in kit-car form. Undaunted, Modena-based Ares Design appealed the decision and today there are media reports on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean that the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Protection Office […]

The Fiat Jolly might be the most popular among the “beach” cars produced in decades past, but it wasn’t the only example of its ilk. Volkswagen notes that it also produced what the Italians termed a rolling spiaggina (beach chair). The open-air, fringe-trimmed fabric-roofed Fiat was built (by Ghia) to be carried on a yacht […]

Drag racing is usually some serious business, except when it turns into comedy.  Here’s a compilation of drag-racing mishaps that shows what happens when thing go awry just as the bottom light turns green.  Talk about funny cars!   Amid all the smoke and noise and drag racers hurtling forward on the quarter mile are these […]

Of the first generation of exotic cars, the most reliable and most usable, and the one I had a poster of on my wall while in high school, was the Porsche 930 Turbo. It was the car I most wanted and was to me the ultimate. It was a model derived from Porsche’s racing cars […]