Classics : Car Reviews And News

A few years back, a Ferrari collector from Argentina had a 1952 Ferrari 225E that had been partially destroyed by a fire. This little car isn’t the sexiest of Ferrari’s, but it is a beautiful and rare vehicle.

While the gaggle of Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsches that sold at Amelia grabbed many of the headlines heading into this weekend’s Amelia Island auction, a 79-year-old Bugatti walked away with the biggest bag of cash. The 1937 Bugatti 57SC Sports Tourer scored a winning bid of $9,735,000 – actually south of pre-auction estimates in the $11-$13 million range – from a private American collector.

One of the sexiest cars ever made is the Lamborghini Miura. The world’s first look at the exotic pictured here came at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, and now Lamborghini PoloStorico has restored the very car that was on display at that show.

Hot cars have been a staple of music videos since the dawn of MTV. But give the Kills props for creativity in their new video for the song, Doing It to Death, featuring a funeral procession of classic black Lincoln Continentals rolling through a cemetery in some kind of bizarre Mardi Gras meets Day of the Dead parade.

Two million dollars is a lot for a car. Probably too much. If you came home with a $2 million car, can you imagine? Your significant other in shock, screaming, “You spent how much for a car?

Love stinks. Especially when you get your ex a custom built Cadillac Ghia, she keeps the car but doesn’t get back together with you. Playboy prince Aly Khan endured such a fate in the 1950s, when he tried to win back the love of movie star Rita Hayworth by purchasing one of two custom Cadillacs constructed by Italian coachbuilder Ghia.

The team at UK auto shop Eagle have a one-track mind, and it’s focused exclusively on Jaguar E-types. For more than three decades, Eagle has been restoring these exquisite cars, and they have now completed their trilogy of special edition E-types with the Eagle Spyder GT.

Gordon Kelly, a Wisconsin industrial engineer, always wanted to build a car. He designed a concept based on a 1961 Chevrolet Corvette, showed it to great coachbuilders around Europe, and picked the Italian company Vignale to build his dream machine.

What were you doing when you were 17 years old? If you were Giorgetto Giugiaro, you were designing the truly breathtaking Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint, a gorgeous Italian coupe from the ’60s and ’70s. Giugiaro went on to design, among other lovely automobiles, the DeLorean DMC-12, the Volkswagen Golf, and the Lotus Esprit.

Jerry Seinfeld will be laughing all the way to the bank this March. He’s putting up sixteen rare Porsches for auction and the comedian will likely walk away with many millions of extra dollars in walking around money.

For today’s moment of zen, how about forgetting the million distractions screaming for your attention in our smartphone-addicted culture. Instead, let your eyes linger on this newly restored, mint condition, sky blue Ferrari 330GTC about to hit the auction block – its seductive curves, sinuous lines, and simple beauty.

Back in the ’80s, you could walk into any kid’s room in the country and the car most likely to be on a poster hanging on the wall was the Lamborghini Countach. That was the exotic car of the decade, and is still the car I think of first when you say the Lambo name.

In 1905, cars were cars, the trunk was an actual trunk, and sometimes a car was actually an airship. This 1905 FIAT is a perfect example. This amazing custom built car has an incredibly long hood needed to fit its massive engine inside.

It’s hard to know exactly the total value of the 10 silver-clad cars on display at the newly remodeled Petersen Automotive Museum’s Precious Metals exhibit. Some reports put the figure at around $120 million, others more like $200 million.

Keith Helmetag has owned his lovely green 1969 Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider for about a decade. “You have all these wonderful memories,” he tells the team at Petrolicious. “Going surfing with your son, getting an ice cream with family, driving a twisty road with clouds overhead.