5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1781+ words) In the early '60s, Milt Brown was a young Californian from a comfortable but not gold-plated background who dreamed of building a car of his own design. To dream of such things, even if most didn't get beyond scale model or…...

12+ hour, 15+ min ago   (538+ words) The 1970s were not particularly kind to American performance cars. Rising insurance costs, tightening emissions regulations and the fuel crisis rapidly changed an industry that had spent the previous decade chasing horsepower. For independent performance shops, the changing landscape presented an…...

13+ hour, 45+ min ago   (589+ words) The muscle-car era created its share of rarities, but production numbers alone do not always explain why certain cars become coveted collector pieces. Factory history, specification, and provenance can turn an already scarce model into something virtually impossible to replace....

20+ hour, 30+ min ago   (546+ words) Yahoo Autos When Jaguar's E-Type — called the XK-E for the American market — launched in 1961, it's reported that Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car in the world." But the sleek sports car was more than just a pretty face....

21+ hour, 15+ min ago   (661+ words) Every officially licensed Eleanor Mustang built over the last two decades owes its existence to one specific fastback. Custom shop Trick Rides has quietly listed that car, cataloged internally as Serial No. 1, for private sale. It isn't the widest, loudest,…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago   (603+ words) Three generations of car collecting are about to change hands in a field outside Eaton, Colorado. On September 19, VanDerBrink Auctions will work through close to 300 vehicles pulled from the estate of the late Doug Born, along with the vintage gas…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (760+ words) Paul Newman had just picked up a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Nobody's Fool when, at 70 years old, he climbed into a Ford Mustang Cobra built around a steel tube-frame chassis that had almost nothing in common with anything sold…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (467+ words) BMW may have ended production of the Z4, but the roadster isn't quite ready to disappear. The family behind one of BMW's most famous performance partners has found a way to keep it alive, albeit in a significantly more exclusive form....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (956+ words) Gooding Christie's has named a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4*S NART Spider as the headlining lot of Rétromobile New York's inaugural auction this November, and the number attached to chassis 10453 — a presale estimate of $15 million to $20 million — will dominate most of the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) Buying a flagship luxury car new can be an expensive lesson in depreciation, and few examples illustrate that quite as dramatically as this 2017 Bentley Bentayga W12, which originally carried a price tag comfortably above a quarter-million dollars. According to the Cars…...