Argentine native Alejandro DeTomaso left his home country in the early 1950’s to pursue a career as a racing driver. He enjoyed moderate success behind ...
Before production of the sensational new Austin-Healey 100 sports car began in earnest at Austin’s Longbridge plant, twenty pre-production cars, numbered AHX1 through AHX20, were ...
In the early 1960s, Japanese manufacturers got serious about taking on new markets, particularly in the increasingly critical North American arena. As British and German ...
After a successful run building Ford-powered off-road trials cars in the early 1940s, Sydney Allard got serious about road racing in 1949 with the introduction ...
Jaguar unveiled the XK150 in 1957 as a heavily reworked and updated replacement for the XK140. By that time, the XK chassis was starting to ...
In the years leading up to the United States’ involvement in World War I, the number of American independent car manufacturers began to slow. The ...
The arrival of Cadillac’s Series 62 marked a significant turning point for General Motors’ flagship marque. The upright grilles and running boards of the ...
The French, before and immediately after World War II, created a class of automobiles known as grandes routieres, luxurious high performance cars that took advantage ...
Jean Daninos, the founder of Facel, believed that even in the 1950’s France needed a prestigious, exclusive, fast, comfortable, beautiful, luxurious automobile to carry on ...
In the aftermath of World War II, Delahaye had survived battered but not broken. Until production of their landmark 135-series could resume, the company paid ...
With the Great Depression in full force and the threat of war lingering over America, Buick approached the 1941 model year with extreme optimism offering ...
Immediately after young Howard Marmon earned his engineered degree from the University of California Berkeley, he went straight to work in his family business, The ...