Classic Cars

Last week's Guilty Pleasure, the Saab Sonett, is one of those cars that several percent of car lovers think is pretty neat (the rest shy away in horror at the very sight of the flaky little fiberglass Swede). That means it's almost not shameful enough for our purposes. What we need this week, then...

A "barn find" 1978 Corvette, with just 13 miles on the odometer, has sold to a Sheik from Abu Dhabi for $50,000.

A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 once once owned by George Harrison fetched over $500,000 at a recent London collector car auction.

One of three actual 1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE convertibles used in the filming of the movie "The Hangover" is for sale on eBay.

A prototype 1965 Mustang is for sale at a dealership in the UK. One of three built, the car has racked up just 73,000 miles since new/

Ford's fastest Mustang of 1969 was the Boss 429, and only 858 were built during the car's two year production run. An original survivor is up for grabs on eBay, but it will cost quite a bit to put into your garage.

An Austin-Healey at the center of the 1955 LeMans tragedy recently crossed the block in a Bonhams Auction, fetching $1.3 million.

After last week's Guilty Pleasure, the unloved-by-Alfa-fanatics 164, it just seems right to get back to the good old U.S. of A for this week's car. Turbocharged front-wheel drive machines were all the rage during the Late Malaise Era, and GM was right there with the Ford EXP Turbo and Renault Fuego...

We've all taken test drives that leave lasting impressions. When transpiring events are made memorable for the dealer, it ranges from a polite request to exit the premises to an epic fail eternally chronicled here on Motor Authority. Usually, it's far less dramatic, and we consumers are the...

Since we've been so light on Ford products in this series, I thought I'd follow up the Givenchy Edition Lincoln Continental Mark V with another Dearborn machine... but then I saw an Alfa 164 on the highway today and felt this... yearning. Granted, the 164 that I saw was on a flatbed trailer and...

A new app for the Apple iPad brings you an astounding amount of content relating to historically significant automobiles.

Two sons spent a period of five years tracking down an elusive 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS that once was the pride and joy of their father, Herb Younger, who purchased the car brand new but had to give it up during the ‘80s due to financial constraints. After finally tracking it down to a...

Since we've had a real shortage of Ford products in this series lately (the Tempo Diesel we saw last week was just a start), it's time we "honor" the Lincoln division's contributions to the world of you-gotta-be-sick-to-want-this-thing cars. The Continental Mark V, built for the 1977-79 model...

This has been a pretty bad year for the legendary Ferrari F40 supercar. Just last August one of the cars crashed in Houston, Texas and now a second example has crashed in the south of Germany. To make matters worse, the latest example is believed to have had just 6,200 miles on its odometer. Unlike...

A few affluent customers who could easily put one of those new 911 models in their garage are instead opting for something even more special: a reconceived 911 from Singer Vehicle Design.

An harmless-looking 1967 Volvo Amazon manages to spank a Ferrari 458 Italia during an impromptu drag race.

Would you believe that we've been doing this series for more than half a year, yet no Fords have been chosen as the weekly Guilty Pleasure? Sure, we've had a couple of Mercurys, but Henry's name has gone on so many terrible-yet-compelling machines that you know some of your brain's more rebellious...

It generated buzz, controversy and even threats on a Shelby forum. By early Saturday afternoon, it generated $230,000 at auction. We're referring to the 1968 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT500-KR we posted about a few days earlier. Curiosity prompted a six-hour road trip to the Indianapolis suburb of...

A highlight of this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas was the original Shelby Cobra prototype on display. Unrestored and unpretentious, its presentation was in stark contrast to the event's requisite highly polished, no-holds-barred rides surrounding it. Patina be damned, its provenance commanded due...

If you had asked us to name which Hollywood celebrity had a custom-built 1966 Mustang convertible prepped with ex-NASCAR gear and a variety of other track-worthy upgrades in 2006, we have to admit, Charlie Sheen wouldn't be anywhere near the top of our list--but that's precisely where this car...