In April of 1934, the Major Bowes Amateur Hour debuted on WHN radio in New York City. “Major” Edward Bowes, who created and hosted the ...
Introduced in September of 1962, the MGB picked up where the MGA left off, which turned out to be an even greater success than its ...
From the Chevrolet Corvette’s inception in 1953, serious sports car fans and racers criticized its emphasis on style over outright performance. Even as sales struggled ...
The Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing is widely regarded as a benchmark of collectible vehicles. No assemblage of significant cars is complete without one of these breathtaking ...
During his tenure as the head of Chrysler design, Virgil Exner defined the iconic fins & chrome era of the 1950s with his revolutionary “Forward ...
To anyone involved in the burgeoning American sports car scene in the 1950s, Bill Frick is a legendary character. As early as the 1930s, Frick ...
Mercedes-Benz consolidated the SL sports car concept into a single line as 300SL, and 190SL production wound down in the early 1960s. The 300SL was ...
In the post-war period of recovery, Mercedes-Benz concentrated on re-establishing itself as a leader in the automotive industry. Their measured and focused approach earned them ...
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 ...
The creations of brothers Fred and August Duesenberg are the stuff of legend. The cars and engines they built were among the very best ...
In 1968 Triumph introduced the latest edition in their long-running line of “TR” roadsters. The TR6 replaced the stopgap TR5/TR250, sharing much of the older ...
It is likely that only a handful of the staunchest of motoring enthusiasts would be able to name an automobile manufacturer besides Minerva or FN ...