Classics : Car News And Reviews

A matte grey, never restored, yet still mint Porsche 550 RS Spyder sold this weekend for a record £4,593,500 at the Goodwood Revival’s Bonhams auction. For those of you, like me, who don’t readily convert pounds to dollars in their heads, that currently adds up to $5,956,621.13 in U.S.

“When I open up the garage, put the key in the ignition, and fire up this car, it’s this amazing… it’s almost like this cannon blast,” says Jeff Martin in the Petrolicious episode featuring his 1955 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint.

If you ever see a collector car driving around Palm Springs, there’s a pretty decent chance it belongs to local car collectors Sandy Edelstein and Scott King, especially if it’s pink and has enormous fins. Their eclectic array of classics includes a massive pink 1959 Mercury Park Lane and a 1992 Acura NSX, featured in a new Petrolicious episode set against the gorgeous Southern California landscape.

In 1936, BMW launched the 328, which quickly made its mark with its 2-liter flat 6, gaining class wins at LeMans and winning the overall trophy at the 1940 Mille Miglia. Further evolved after the war by Bristol, the 328 notched a win at the 1952 British Grand Prix.

These are some rare birds indeed. The very first production Pontiac Firebirds built will soon go on sale at Barrett-Jackson, and you can bet they’ll command a staggering bounty. These 1967 Firebirds – a coupe and a convertible – rolled off the line at the Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant and immediately captured the hearts of muscle car mad gearheads, to the tune of selling more than 82,000 units in the first year.

These days, there are lots of people clamoring for the return of Ford’s Ranger compact pickup truck. But there’s another Ford that pre-dates the Ranger that I’d love to see make a comeback too. And that, my friends, is the Ford Ranchero.

Sure, at a glance you might mistake this 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO for the one that Magnum P.I. drove in the iconic ’80s series. It’s not though; Magnum could only wish his Ferrari were a GTO.

If there weren’t already enough reasons to visit the Mustang Club of America’s upcoming 40th anniversary celebration at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this September, we now have one more. Pony car fans in attendance will get to see the premiere of a life-size LEGO model of the classic 1964½ Ford Mustang.

BMW made a major discovery for fans of the classic 507 roadster and for fans of Elvis Presley. While Elvis was doing military service in Germany, he owned a slick little 507 that was thought to have been lost forever.

The team at Goodwood Road & Racing selected seven vehicles for a video celebrating the best sounding cars of the 2016 Festival of Speed. The competition is fierce. The lineup includes the McLaren P1 LM, the Hepworth GB1 Can-Am car, the Honda Ra 300, Mad Mike Whiddett’s Red Bull turbo Mazda RX-8 drift car, Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s

The Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated 100 years of BMW competition (and BMW’s centennial as a company) with a parade of amazing cars and motorcycles. The procession featured everything from M1 pro cars to Formula 1 cars, 635 CSIs that won the Spa 24 Hours in the 80s, the V12 LMR, and the spectacular 3.0 CSL “Batmobile” pictured below.

Sure, you’ll get a lot of gawkers if you roll through town in one of the season’s trendy new cars. But it’s doubtful you’ll turn more heads than driving along in the Ecto-1, the marquee car in the new Ghostbusters movie.

Back in late March, we caught word that Jaguar planned to make nine XKSS continuation cars to make up for some original 1957 models that were lost in a factory fire back in the day. We knew that the cars would be very expensive and with so few being made, ultra exclusive as well.

There are a few actors turned racing drivers out there who were very successful in both careers. Two of the biggest names to achieve success both on screen and on track were Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Any real ’60s era Shelby Cobra is an iconic car and worth big money. Just imagine what the very first Shelby Cobra would be worth. That is exactly what RM Sotheby’s will be auctioning off in a couple weeks in Monterey.