Hundreds of 100th Anniversary Alfas in Monterey — Frank’s 10 Favorites
In case you hadn’t heard, Alfa Romeo is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and the brand was celebrated in grand style during the Pebble Beach/Monterey weekend. Here’s a smattering of my...
View ArticleThe Fab Five: Top Picks From the 2010 Quail Motorsports Gathering
The Quail has become one of the Monterey Car Week’s most successful, significant, and exclusive events despite having been created just eight short years ago. For 2010, Carroll Shelby was honored with...
View ArticleWanted and Desired: 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic
According to the tabloids, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just purchased a $40 million dollar home in Italy, their third. For that not-inconsequential sum, the world’s #1 supercouple gets a “vineyard,...
View ArticleMy Dream Car Collection: Affordable Classics
When you’re 8 years old, you can be anything. My buddies were firemen or astronauts or cowboys. Me? I was a racing driver, vroom-vrooming scarlet Ferraris in countries half a world away from my...
View ArticleRemembering Steve McQueen, 30 years later
Actor, racer, cool guy Steve McQueen passed away 30 years ago last Sunday, November 7, 1980. I’ll admit right here, again, that I’m a fan, and enjoy most of McQueen’s movies and particularly appreciate...
View ArticleWant to See Classics Driven Every Day? Visit London
I was in London about a month ago, and was pleasantly astonished to see so many cool newer and classic cars being driven as daily commuters, just parked on the street like any other car. Granted, my...
View ArticleCollector Car Market: Alive and Well
I just spent a week in Arizona working Barrett-Jackson’s 40th annual Scottsdale auction sale for SPEED TV, and news continued to circulate the grounds about how well the other sales around town –...
View ArticleReviewed: Rusted Muscle, A collection of Derelict Dream Machines, by Steve...
Like Barnfinds and junkyard dogs? My buddy and SPEED TV colleague Steve Magnante, has made junkyard crawls one of his life’s great pursuit. Fortunately, he never went without a camera, and has...
View Article1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato takes MT Classic Choice Award at 2011 Desert...
It was a helluva choice, lemmeetellya. My job was to select one car to receive the Motor Trend Classic Choice trophy at the recent Desert Classic Concours. In spite of so many great Corvettes,...
View ArticleThe Standard of The World bags Motor Trend Classic Trophy at Amelia Island 2011
George and Nancy Weaver, of East Earl, Pennsylvania, had the right combination of car, presentation, and quality all wrapped up in their magnificent 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, to snag the Motor...
View ArticleRIP, David E.
Much has been said, and will continue to be said, about the recent passing of automotive journalism doyen David E. Davis, Jr. Rather than repeat the accomplishments and personality traits that so many...
View ArticleThe Nostalgia Trap: Were they Really the Good Old Days?
Ah yes, the good old days. When gas cost pennies per gallon, you could rent genuine Shelby Mustangs from Hertz, and the cops didn’t have radar. When Toyota was still an obscure Japanese automaker,...
View ArticleBuy Dad a Book: Father’s Day Automotive Book Review Collection
Bud’s Book Bud? Bud Who? Bud Lyon, that’s who. You may not know Mr. Lyon, but he’s a brilliant, largely self made, really wealthy car collector guy who may not live too much longer. And his book,...
View ArticleFord vs. Chevy Redux in the Woodward Dream Cruise Battle of the Billboards
It’s beginning to look a lot like Dream Cruise. It’s still not the commercial automotive powerhouse it was three or four years ago. It’s certainly not the Pebble Beach Concours/Monterey Historics, and...
View ArticleCruising Woodward–the Anti-Pebble Beach
While all the fancy car folk were burning up their AmEx Black cards in foggy Monterey, us regular folk jammed the verges and medians of America’s first paved street, Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit...
View ArticleHistory Is Written By Whom Exactly?
“Might that make an interesting blog entry? Get the fanboys chatting? Wouldn’t need to be much more than what you had below, cleaned up and toned down a half-shade.” So said our technical director,...
View ArticleThe Great Race
The road twists and turns like spilled spaghetti as we race through the hills north of Florence. The little Alfa is working hard; there’s a cammy growl from under the hood as I take the 2.0-liter four...
View ArticleModern Times: Secret Business
One of the advantages of having now clocked almost three decades as an auto writer is that the designers and engineers who were starting their careers the same time I started mine now hold senior...
View ArticleEvery Day I Am Driving: The Three That Got Away
I can’t actually print what he says to me, but I can assure you that when my good buddy Luis expresses his good-humored jealousy over whatever hypercar I’m currently driving, it’s two hues past...
View ArticleEvery Day I Am Driving: Men of Means — and Taste
“Have you driven that yet?” I asked as editor-in-chief Edward Loh drove by in a 2013 Audi S8. “Naw,” the denim-clad man standing next to me answered. “Not really my thing.” The man saying no to the...
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