Classic Cars

While all eyes at last week’s Dana Mecum 26th Original Spring Classic Auction in Indianapolis was on the sale of the ‘Eleanor’ Mustang from 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds, another rare Mustang also went under the hammer and ended up selling for considerably more. That...

James Bond star Daniel Craig made a surprise visit to the Nürburgring race track in Germany this past weekend to take part in a special drive event celebrating Aston Martin’s centenary this year. Craig hopped behind the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5 used during the filming of the latest...

A 1967 Ford Mustang used during filming of 2000’s hit movie Gone in 60 Seconds has sold at auction for a staggering $1 million. This was no ordinary Mustang, however, as the car in question was none other than the famous Eleanor Mustang driven by actor Nicholas Cage in the movie’s...

Buick is more than old enough to qualify for an AARP card. There's a joke about the average age of the Buick driver in there somewhere, but we're going to leave that alone. The current crop of cars boast pretty smart styling meshed with quality interiors. There's been a lot of excellent machines...

Taking a modern car on a 1,000-mile journey is not exactly a quick trip. You need to get the car ready by making sure everything is in proper working order, the tires are at the right pressure, and all fluids are filled to their appropriate levels. Now imagine that the 1,000 miles you cover are...

James Bond may be irretrievably linked to Aston Martins, the DB5 in particular, but he's driven quite a number of other vehicles during his 50-year movie career. Unloved orphans like the AMC Matador may not have been high points of the Bond oeuvre. But the sleek, sexy Japanese sports car he drove...

If you managed to miss the last time John Lennon’s Ferrari was up for sale at auction, you’ve got one more chance, as it didn’t sell last time. The Ferrari 330GT that Lennon drove at what was perhaps the height of the Beatlemania era is back, and the car will go on the auction...

With the 2014 Jaguar F-Type having recently drawn the automotive world's eyes back to the company's sports car past, the brand is capitalizing on that attention as it plans to run a trio of C-Types and an XK120 in the 2013 Mille Miglia. The Mille Miglia is no longer the no-holds-barred, flat-out...

It's fun to pick the cars you'd put in your garage if you had unlimited funds. It's pointless, but it's still fun. Join us as we hash our the first members of our four-car dream garages--and debate the merits (or demerits) of each. For this first part, we're selecting two cars from the past. For...

Name one of the most iconic cars from the 80s. We are sure you have just uttered the word Testarossa, but if you watched Magnum PI back in the day, you clearly remember the bright red Ferrari 308 GTSi that starred in the show. When a friend of ours called us offering up the opportunity to do a...

The Jaguar E-Type is one of the most gorgeous automobiles ever to grace the face of this planet. When the production version rolled out in 1961, Enzo Ferrari referred to it as "the most beautiful car ever made". It's a symbol of the glory days of British motoring, and every example deserves love...

You kids with your fancy syncromesh single-stick gearboxes. I remember back in my day when we had different gear levers for different gear sets, and when you didn't shift smoothly the transmission would let you know. The straight-cut gears act as the gearbox bouncer and you better be smooth if you...

It's not exactly luxurious, and it's not sporty in the on-road sense of the term, but there's something about this 1985 Mercedes-Benz 280GE "rebranded" as a 300GD that makes us want to clear a space in the garage. The Portland-area seller describes the diesel G as "city tough" and says it's...

Gearheads rarely agree on which car is the most beautiful ever designed, but a select few appear on more lists than most. The Lamborghini Miura, for instance. The '63 Corvette Stingray. The Ferrari 246 GT Dino. And the car you see here, a Series 1 Jaguar XKE, otherwise known as the E-Type. It's...

The Jaguar E-Type is nothing less than a legend, a classic, a car that stands alone. And striking cars should come with startling stories. A certain Jaguar 1968 E-Type Coupe offered for sale in Rockville, Maryland, has that, in spades: In its 45 years, it has been loved, abducted, found, denied...

BMW announced today that it will build 55 examples of a reproduction gearbox for the iconic BMW 328. There aren't many applications for a modern-day copy of a 75-year old gearbox from a BMW 328. There aren't even very many BMW 328s; only 464 were built over its run from 1936-1940. BMW is offering...

Coinciding with the upcoming 2013 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, premier auction house RM Auctions will be flogging a huge assortment of the most desirable Ferrari models ever produced, along with dozens of other rare autos. Headlining the long list of items up for grabs are cars...

The video above shows the sickening footage of an original Lamborghini Miura P400 SV going up in flames in the middle of a London street. The car had recently spent some time in a workshop and had only just been picked up before it caught on fire. The cause of the fire remains unknown, and sadly it...

An original Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing, similar to the one pictured above, was almost completely wrecked after a mechanic crashed the rare classic on a stretch of road near Pleidelsheim, Germany, last week. The car, one of 1,400 original 300SL gullwing coupes ever built, was in for scheduled...

One of the original Eleanor Mustangs created for 2000’s hit movie Gone in 60 Seconds is going under the hammer at the Dana Mecum 26th Original Spring Classic Auction taking place in Indianapolis this May. Eleven of the fictional Eleanor Mustangs were created for the movie, although only three...