Classic Cars

The Shelby Cobra prototype at SEMA is legitimately drool-worthy, but this XJ220 prototype may be even more impressive. It's up for auction at eBay Motors with a Buy It Now price of $800,000. The seller says it's the second prototype built, sporting chassis number XPO102 and it comes complete with a...

There are hordes of hotted-up, modified, and tweaked cars at the 2011 SEMA show, but one car in particular harks back to a purer, simpler time. Despite its age, it packs no less punch: it's the original prototype chassis for the Shelby Cobra, built in 1962. Wearing chassis code CSX0001, this is the...

It’s now possible to build a brand new ’64½, ’65 or ’66 Ford Mustang convertible from the wheels up using this latest Ford-approved and officially licensed body shell. Unveiled today ahead of its public debut at next week’s 2011 Specialty Equipment Market...

While the first-gen Excel may be one of the rarest 1980s cars in North America nowadays, we can jump into the next decade and find another Hyundai that's nearly as hard to find: the Scoupe. While Saddam was gearing up for The Mother of All Battles, Hyundai was improving on the Excel--the bar was...

The incredible gathering of historic, vintage, and simply awesome machinery at Porsche's Rennsport Reunion has become something of a pilgrimage for both Porsche fans and motorsports devotees in general. This video offers those of us who weren't able to attend a small taste of what it's like. It's...

I've been struggling through an unhealthy obsession with the Mitsubishi Cordia lately, which has cut down on my time for searches for other shouldn't-want-it-but-can't-help-myself vehicles. The only cure for Dementia Cordia is, of course, a genuine example of late-20th-century General Motors...

Actor Johnny Depp was given the 1959 Corvette he drove in the upcoming film, "The Rum Diary," by the film's producer as a thank-you gift.

The famous Mille Miglia endurance road race might have finished as a competitive event back in 1957 in its Italian home, but tribute and historic events have kept the name alive for several decades now. Between October 25-29 this year competitors in America will get a taste of the format as the...

With Mitsubishi's combination of dodgy reliability and puzzling styling, you know the Three Diamonds' back catalog should be good for some seriously guilty automotive pleasures. I admitted to searching for a nice first-gen Diamante a few months back, but the Diamante might be a bit too, you know...

Finding an original BMW M1 up for sale is already next-to-impossible, though there are some around as we’ve seen in the past. But just imagine how rare it would be to come across the actual 1979 BMW M1 Art Car on the selling block. Well, the Guggenheim Museum in New York sold an original 1979...

We're just a little over a week out from Porsche's Rennsport Reunion IV, which will run at Laguna Seca October 14-16. The celebration of vintage racing Porsches will be one of the best on-track car shows of the fall, but it means quite a bit more to the true Porsche enthusiast. As Haywood recounts...

After feeling the urge to find myself a clean Eagle Premier last week, I got to thinking about the Chrysler products that the Premier spawned after Chrysler absorbed all that Renault DNA through its acquisition of AMC. Remember how futuristic the first LH Platform Chryslers looked? OK, now forget...

At its upcoming London event, RM Auctions will sell the first four-door Ferrari sedan even produced. The Ferrari Pinin is expected to sell between $740,000 and $850,000.

Unless you're a fan of the TV series Pawn Stars, you might've missed the news on Friday that a 1957 Chevy 150 sedan belonging to the "Old Man" overheated and burst into flames. But there's a follow-up piece that might interest you: the classic car was restored in just a matter of hours, and it's...

The Guilty Pleasure series has honored, if that's the word, one product apiece from AMC and Renault, but things really get interesting when you combine the two companies. Adding the troublesome PRV engine just makes it that much better! The Eagle Premier was more or less AMC's last gasp, although...

A Santa Monica, California barn find may be the last of the truly great missing classic car discoveries: the only one of the 29 alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing coupes not already accounted for. Chassis number 21 was discovered at the original owner's garage through Rudi Koniczek...

What makes a normally undesirable car become desirable? In the case of the first Hyundai sold in the United States, it's a combination of historical significance and historical awfulness. Nowadays, Americans see Hyundai as a manufacturer of some very high-quality cars, but it wasn't always so. Far...

While Ford and GM both slapped Detroit badges on various captive imports and overseas-division products, neither came close to matching Chrysler of the early 1970s for sheer weird variety of off-brand imports showing up in American showrooms. During this era, car shoppers could drop into their...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire are in Australia to work on a new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Part of their preparation included driving lessons in a $3 million 1929 Duesenberg J.

I've been really fixated on Cadillacs as Guilty Pleasure cars these days, and I considered going with the Cimarron d'Oro--or even an $85 1:43 scale diecast bustle-back Seville toy--for today's GP honoree. However, thoughts of the way that GM managed to pass its bad-management virus to Toyota got me...