Vintage Archive

  • Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Technology, Videos, Porsche, Racing Stanford has taken to playing with vintage Porsche racers as part of the institution’s research on the interaction between driver and vehicle. By swaddling a 1960 Porsche Abarth Carrera in GPS antennae, motion sensors and laser measuring equipment to monitor...

    Stanford wiring up vintage sports cars and their drivers to help develop new cars

    Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Technology, Videos, Porsche, Racing Stanford has taken to playing with vintage Porsche racers as part of the institution’s research on the interaction between driver and vehicle. By swaddling a 1960 Porsche Abarth Carrera in GPS antennae, motion sensors and laser measuring equipment to monitor...

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  • Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Europe, Videos, Racing Killed Myself When I Was Young – Click above to view videos after the jump This compilation of racing crashes in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s is a jarring reminder of when auto racing really was a life-or-death venture. Put simply, if you...

    Vintage crash compilation shows how far racing has come

    Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Europe, Videos, Racing Killed Myself When I Was Young – Click above to view videos after the jump This compilation of racing crashes in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s is a jarring reminder of when auto racing really was a life-or-death venture. Put simply, if you...

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  • Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Performance, Government/Legal, Videos, Aston Martin, UK, Celebrities, Luxury Prince William and Kate Middleton leave Royal Wedding in Aston Martin – Click above for high-res image gallery Kings and princes aren’t generally in the business of driving themselves… well, anywhere. More often than not, such dignitaries can...

    Prince William borrows father’s vintage Aston Martin for Royal Wedding cruise [w/video]

    Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Performance, Government/Legal, Videos, Aston Martin, UK, Celebrities, Luxury Prince William and Kate Middleton leave Royal Wedding in Aston Martin – Click above for high-res image gallery Kings and princes aren’t generally in the business of driving themselves… well, anywhere. More often than not, such dignitaries can...

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  • Filed under: Classics, Auctions, Motorcycle RM Auctions has come a long way in relatively few years. The Canadian automotive auction house has only been around a couple of decades – a drop in the bucket compared to rivals like Bonhams, Gooding & Co or even Barrett-Jackson – but has quickly...

    RM Auctions America acquires Bator vintage motorcycle company

    Filed under: Classics, Auctions, Motorcycle RM Auctions has come a long way in relatively few years. The Canadian automotive auction house has only been around a couple of decades – a drop in the bucket compared to rivals like Bonhams, Gooding & Co or even Barrett-Jackson – but has quickly...

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  • Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Porsche, Volkswagen, Specialty 1973 Volkswagen Bugster – Click above for high-res image gallery This is a melding of two seemingly very different cars we can get behind. The melding of one car’s running gear and another’s body isn’t a new practice, but so often...

    Porsche Boxster + vintage Volkswagen Bug = Bugster

    Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Porsche, Volkswagen, Specialty 1973 Volkswagen Bugster – Click above for high-res image gallery This is a melding of two seemingly very different cars we can get behind. The melding of one car’s running gear and another’s body isn’t a new practice, but so often...

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