The latest issue of Classic Driver features an absolutely fabulous article by Tony Dron about his experience driving the legendary Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow Grand Prix car around Donington Park...
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For sheer aerodynamic perfection it would be hard to beat this Lotus XI, also known as the "Yellow Peril." Perhaps in a wind tunnel contest more modern race cars might prevail but none would...
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Our ace contributor Nigel Matthews gets to drive some very exotic machinery but nothing could compare with his seat time in the Bugatti Veyron, the fastest and most expensive production-built car in...
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Of all the interesting cars at the 2007 Steamworks Concours in Vancouver's Gastown, perhaps nothing stopped (and mystified) visitors more than this 1947 Tatra T-87. To begin, few North Americans...
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If I were to ask you to list the most important car producers by country would you include Spain? Probably not, and yet it has produced some magnificent automotive engineers - Wilfredo Ricart among...
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A few blogs ago I made mention of "Volvo's 70-year history.". My article featured the PV544 and later models. I wish I could have included a few words and a graphic about that very first...
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I'll bet my good buddy Bob Schulties, autos channel editor at About.com in NYC, would enjoy this one; Bob's a Saab enthusiast to the core. Thanks to this week's Hemmings newsletter...
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One night a couple of years ago I was walking along a rain-dampened street in Brooklyn with good friends Bob Schulties, About.com's Autos Channel editor, and Colin Hefferon, my Vancouver test drive...
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How can you not want to own and drive this beautiful mid-50's sports car? Of course you would. Unfortunately you can't, and it's not a true classic but a prototype for a very limited run of 12 new...
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One of the many delights of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is the organiser's annual selection of "honored" marques. For 2006 there were two fabulous names to be admired: Delahaye and Voisin,...
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My Dutch friend and local coffee house entrepeneur Ralph Steenstra is stunned when I tell him that his country once produced a fine car called Spyker and that it has been reborn after 70-some years....
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