Classics : Car Reviews And News

“It’s almost like taking a vacation after going for a drive in a car like this,” says lucky 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback owner Addison Lee. Heck, just watching this Petrolicious report on Lee’s classic American muscle is a brief, relaxing escape from the daily grind.

One of the most famous names in all of motorsports is Stirling Moss. Moss drove many cars over his career with many of them winning events and setting records. One of the cars that Moss drove was this Aston Martin DB3S.

Porsche is showing off a complete restoration that it did on a very special 911 2.5 S/T. This 911 has an important motorsports history behind it, as it was its class winner at the Le Mans race in 1972.

To help preserve its heritage, Land Rover went out and purchased 25 Series 1 vehicles that were desperately in need of restoration. The automaker is setting about restoring each of them to pristine condition and you can buy them directly from Land Rover.

The ’80s were a dark time for many carmakers. It was an era that offered up numerous sports cars that had little in the way of performance. There were, however, a handful great cars from that era, and this sweet 1985 Porsche 911 is one of them.

I was just one year old back in 1969, but that was the year when Honda brought its first ever car to the United States from Japan. The Honda N600 was a simple little city car, but represented a milestone in the automotive industry.

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.