Classic Cars Blog

Carroll Shelby has been the subject of many a blog post and article over the past week and a half since his passing. Over the course of his almost nine-decade life, Shelby was involved ...    Read more

Carroll Shelby was nothing if not a car guy, and much of his legacy will live in his automotive creations, of which there are many. While Shelby has made enough gas-powered race cars and street machines to fill books, we've compiled a list of our very favorites. Original Shelby Cobra Carroll Shelby ...    Read more

This week’s episode of Wide Open Throttle is all about Mercedes-Benz, as host Jessi Lang gets an in-depth look at a rare car in the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center’s collection and gets artsy at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles with the ...    Read more

I harbor no ill will towards snow, but as someone born and raised in Michigan, even I find it a little ironic that I’m flying out to California, of all places, for a rally that touts snow-capped scenery. It’s also funny that I’m heading to an event called the Snowball ...    Read more

Barn find stories rarely disappoint, especially if the discovery unearths a piece of automotive history. That was the case with this particular Austin Mini Se7en, believed to be the oldest unrestored Mini in existence, which recently sold at a Bonhams auction for three times its original estimate. The car ...    Read more

Martin Swig, the car guy’s car guy, seems to spend a lot of time thinking up neat things for people to do with cars. His seminal California Mille event has sparked many others to organize fun runs on good back roads with the cooperation (more or less) of the motorized ...    Read more

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Ford Mustang. The original car was launched on April 17, 1964, at the New York World's Fair. To pay tribute to the storied pony car, we decided to take a brief look back at the history of the Ford Mustang. First Generation -- 1964-1973 The ...    Read more

Volvo's first mass-produced car - an OV4 -- rolled out of the factory on April 14, 1927. Since tomorrow marks the 85th anniversary of that joyous occasion, we've rounded up 8.5 of our favorite Volvos - one for each decade Volvo's mass-produced cars - for your enjoyment. ...    Read more

The McLaren F1 was one of the most expensive cars ever built but, more importantly, it had the highest top speed of any production car to date. Street versions rarely surface for sale and race cars are even scarcer, but later in August the ex-GTC Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 ...    Read more

A sizable chunk of RM Auction’s forthcoming Monaco acution consists of vintage Ducati motorcycles of all shapes and sizes, but we can’t help but notices a number of amazing vintage Ferrari race and road cars have also worked their way into the auction catalog. Here are a few of ...    Read more

Automakers offering restoration services for vehicles they built decades before isn’t exactly uncommon. Aston Martin’s Works Heritage Service will gladly maintain your wanna-be-Bond DB5. Mercedes-Benz Classic will restore a 600 Grosser, a 300SL Gullwing, and everything in between. And Volkswagen, it seems, is more than willing to give your Microbus ...    Read more

Copyright infringement can bring a host of serious consequences, including having your handiwork destroyed. When German courts found that a company had made an unauthorized copy of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL body, the Mercedes Classic center was able to confiscate and crush the infringing bodywork. The design of the original ...    Read more

When it comes to old-school sports cars with wood-framed bodywork, we never thought the British Morgan firm would ever have a true competitor in this day in age - but now it does. Meet the new Atalanta, a British firm revived after almost eight decades of obscurity. The original Atalanta Motors ...    Read more

If you aren’t familiar with the 2000GT, go read Jason Cammisa’s article about historical Japanese sports cars right now. Now that you know how awesome the 2000GT is, enjoy these photos of the 2000GT and the new Toyota FT-86 that aims to get young buyers interested in Toyota again. Seeing ...    Read more

The theme Hot Rod's new "Roadkill" series is low-budget road trips, and to kick it off, Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger of Hot Rod magazine are given a total budget of $1500 to buy a car, purchase fuel, drive home, attempt to re-sell the car, and somehow come out ahead in the ...    Read more

It's been 40 years since Japanese automaker Subaru launched its first all-wheel-drive car, so the company is celebrating its first vehicle with four driven wheels. The car in question was the Subaru Leone Estate Van 4WD, launched in Japan in 1972 and pictured here. Although Subaru advertising campaigns in the U.S. ...    Read more

There’ll be a slice of motorsport history on the auction block at next month’s Amelia Island Auction: renowned auction house Gooding and Company announced that it will sell the Drendel Family Porsche Collection on March 9, putting 18 rare and pristine Porsche race cars up for sale. Combined, the cars ...    Read more

Who would've thought that the quirky Jensen FF would have a successor from Ferrari some 40-plus years after its demise? Like its predecessor, the Ferrari FF is an all-wheel drive shooting brake. While we've yet to see if history will be as ...    Read more

Project Super Bee, the long-dormant project car of Hot Rod Magazine editor-in-chief David Freiburger, is awakened from its 15-year slumber, and prepared for a cross-desert journey and jaunt down the dragstrip for Moparty at the Strip in Las Vegas. The 1970 ...    Read more

Yes, Mercury may be dead and buried, but that didn’t stop a Mercury concept car from appearing at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show. We discovered the 1954 Mercury Monterrey XM-800 tucked in a distant corner of McCormack Place's south hall. Unlike the 1993 SVT Mustang Cobra R that graces Ford's stand, ...    Read more

Yes, the newest vehicle on Ford's stand at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show is the 2013 Shelby GT500 Convertible -- but the highlight may actually be this: a 1993 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R. At the 1992 Chicago Auto Show, the SVT division launched the 1993 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra, a ...    Read more

Following the announcement that classic car insurer Hagerty placed the 2012 Buick Regal GS  on its "2012 Hot List," General Motors decided to see how the Regal GS would stack up against other past collectibles from the Buick bloodline if it were ...    Read more

If you're a Shelby Mustang fan, today's a day worth celebrating. 47 years ago today, Carroll Shelby officially debuted the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang to the press at Riverside International Raceway in California. Although significant, it was hardly the first milestone in the making of the Shelby Mustang. Shelby American, then ...    Read more

The C6 Corvette has had a good, long run but before the sports car is gone, Chevy has developed the Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition. The 2013 Corvette marks the 60th anniversary of the Corvette nameplate and the final model year of the current Corvette. The 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 Convertible ...    Read more

Without a doubt, the Mercedes-Benz SL is one of the most iconic models in the brand’s history. And as the roadster celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Mercedes-Benz is rolling out both new and historic sheetmetal. In addition to the release of the all-new 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL, the automaker has ...    Read more