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09.03.2010
Rowe, Maher and Hearsey at AFAS Amelia Island Concours

Rowe, Maher and Hearsey at AFAS Amelia Island Concours
Paintings from Barry Rowe, Charles Maher and Peter Hearsey of the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) will be featured during the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 11-14, 2010, in Amelia Island, Florida. The paintings will be part of the 15th annual AFAS Amelia Island Concours art show sponsored by Mazda North America. Barry Rowe [...] Related stories:
  1. AFAS Celebrates 15 Years at Amelia Island Concours
  2. AFAS Artist Jay Koka at Amelia Island Concours
  3. 2009 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Best of Show Winners

19.02.2010
Best of Britain Exhibition at Simeone Museum

Best of Britain Exhibition at Simeone Museum
Over thirty rare, unusual and beautiful sports and racing cars manufactured in England will be on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum from February 20th through March 14th, 2010. Titled the “Best of Britain,” the show is comprised of cars from individual collectors in the mid-Atlantic states and is intended to illustrate why the [...] Related stories:
  1. Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum Dedication
  2. Janet Guthrie Receives Award at Simeone Museum
  3. Grand Sport Corvette Added to Simeone Collection

15.02.2010
Allure of the Automobile Exhibit Information

Allure of the Automobile Exhibit Information
The Allure of the Automobile exhibit will be displayed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia from March 21st to Jun 20th, 2010, presenting the world’s rarest and most brilliantly conceived cars from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. The exhibit aims to trace the evolution of the motorcar, examining the contrasts between European [...] Related stories:
  1. Panamera Exhibit at Porsche Museum
  2. Porsche Museum Update
  3. Sports Car Exhibit at Antique Auto Museum

05.02.2010
Kroymans Ferrari Collection Sold

Kroymans Ferrari Collection Sold
What was once one of the most important collections of vintage and collector Ferraris in the world has been salvaged from bankruptcy wreckage and sold by Hamann Classic Cars of Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded in 1902 by the great grandfather of current Chairman Frits Kroymans, Kroymans was the exclusive Ferrari Distributor in Holland. The $3 billion automobile [...] Related stories:
  1. Ferrari Collection Added to RM Monaco Auction
  2. Woodie Collection to be sold in Monterey – RM Auctions
  3. Schermerhorn Collection Featured at Ferrari Leggenda

05.02.2010
AFAS Celebrates 15 Years at Amelia Island Concours

AFAS Celebrates 15 Years at Amelia Island Concours
The Automotive Fine Arts Society will host its 15th annual art show during the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 11-14, 2010 in Amelia Island, Florida. Mazda North America will once again sponsor the popular exhibit, which will showcase automotive subjects in a variety of mediums including oil, watercolors, acrylics, wood, gouache, pen and [...] Related stories:
  1. AFAS Artist Jay Koka at Amelia Island Concours
  2. Automotive Fine Arts Society at Amelia Concours
  3. Rowe, Maher and Hearsey at AFAS Amelia Island Concours

29.01.2010
National Auto Museum Raffle Car Information

National Auto Museum Raffle Car Information
The National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, has raffled 14 cars and generated $295,000 in proceeds to benefit the Museum over the years, with the winning ticket drawn at the anniversary party held each November at the Museum in Reno, Nevada. Read the rest of National Auto Museum Raffle Car Information © Sports Car [...] Related stories:
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  3. International Motor Racing Research Center – 2009 Raffle Car

27.01.2010
Ferrari 312P & 312PB – Book Review

Ferrari 312P & 312PB – Book Review
The late 1960s and early 1970s formed a significant epoch in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road-going vehicles, prototype sports car racing captured the imagination of manufacturers, teams and fans alike. Porsche vs Ferrari vs Alfa [...] Related stories:
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  2. Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed – Book Review
  3. Book Review – Driving Style: GM Design’s First Century

31.12.2009
Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009

Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009
Sports Car Digest published 510 stories in 2009, ranging from auction results, car profiles, event and vintage racing coverage, yet several resonated more than others with our readers. Based upon visitors to each story, the Mario Righini Collection Photo Gallery was our most popular story in 2009, followed by the Porsche 917 Photo Gallery by [...] Related stories:
  1. 2009 Goodwood Revival Race Results and Photos
  2. Best Vintage Car Racing Photo of 2009
  3. 2009 Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance – Photo Gallery

11.12.2009
ATS 2500 GT 3.0 Litre Coupe – Car Profile

ATS 2500 GT 3.0 Litre Coupe – Car Profile
ATS, or Automobili Turismo e Sport SpA, was an Italian carmaker and racing team that operated all too briefly between February 1962 and 1965. The nucleus of the new company was comprised of Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini, who were both prominently involved in the development of the Ferrari GTO and, as refugees from the [...] Related stories:
  1. A.T.S 2500 GT Featured at London Sale – RM Auctions
  2. Aston Martin DBSC Coupe – Car Profile
  3. Car Profile – Pegaso Z-102

09.12.2009
Introducing the Cars for Sale Website

Introducing the Cars for Sale Website
Sports Car Digest is pleased to announce our new Cars for Sale section, the first of several new site features to be released over the coming weeks. Through relationships with the world’s premium auction companies and automotive dealerships, we now present an extensive line-up of classic and modern cars for sale. While the site functionality is [...] Related stories:
  1. New Classic Website at Mercedes-Benz
  2. Website Review – Bring a Trailer

07.12.2009
Grand Sport Corvette Added to Simeone Collection

Grand Sport Corvette Added to Simeone Collection
A Grand Sport Corvette – one of only five ever built by General Motors – is the latest addition to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Grand Sport joins the collection of over 60 of the most significant sports racing cars ever built. “The Corvette is really the only sports car that [...] Related stories:
  1. Janet Guthrie Receives Award at Simeone Museum
  2. Best of Britain Exhibition at Simeone Museum
  3. Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum Dedication

04.12.2009
Panamera Exhibit at Porsche Museum

Panamera Exhibit at Porsche Museum
For the first time, visitors of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart will experience the new Panamera, as Porsche has planned a range of exhibits offering insight into the development of the latest model series of the Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart. The special “Panamera Moment“ exhibition, which runs from December 8, 2009 to [...] Related stories:
  1. Porsche Museum Update
  2. Special Exhibition at Porsche Museum
  3. New Porsche Museum Photo Gallery

02.12.2009
Holiday Gift Ideas – Motorsports Books and More

Holiday Gift Ideas – Motorsports Books and More
The holidays are firmly upon us so we compiled a list of gift suggestions for the gearhead among your family, friends and associates. Each of these fine offerings would make a great holiday present, especially at our discounted rates. Yes indeed, Sports Car Digest readers benefit from a 25% discount from the selected David Bull Publishing’s [...] Related stories:
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30.11.2009
Dick Smith 427 Cobra to Riverside Automotive Museum

Dick Smith 427 Cobra to Riverside Automotive Museum
Riverside International Automotive Museum announced the arrival of the Dick Smith 427 Cobra, which is billed as the most important 427 Cobra in the country and “the winningest 427 Cobra produced.” Riverside calls it the most significant 427 Cobra you will ever see and who are we to argue? In addition to winning many national [...] Related stories:
  1. Cars & Stars Gala – Peterson Automotive Museum
  2. Legends of Riverside Festival
  3. Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum Dedication

24.11.2009
2010 Vintage Car Racing Calendar For Sale

2010 Vintage Car Racing Calendar For Sale
Just in time for the holidays, Sports Car Digest and Senior Contributing Photographer Dennis Gray have produced a stunning vintage racing calendar for 2010. The calendar contains our favorite images from several vintage car racing events Dennis documented in 2009, with pictures from the Monterey Historics, Wine Country Classic and others. Ferrari, Bugatti, Cobra, Scarab, [...] Related stories:
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  3. 2010 SVRA Vintage Car Racing Schedule

18.11.2009
Aston Martin DBSC Coupe – Car Profile

Aston Martin DBSC Coupe – Car Profile
With development of its 2nd generation of ‘DB’ six-cylinder sports cars nearing its end, Aston Martin turned to the Italian Carrozzeria Touring of Milan, creator of the original DB4 of 1959, for the next model. Touring built a pair of two-seater prototypes, one right- and one left-hand drive (‘266/1/R’ and ‘266/2/L’ respectively) which were displayed [...] Related stories:
  1. Aston Martin DB4 GT – Car Profile
  2. Aston Martin Auction Results – Bonhams
  3. Classified Ads from the Past – Aston Martin DB4GT

17.11.2009
Shelby Foundation Offering Signed “Go Like Hell” Books

Shelby Foundation Offering Signed “Go Like Hell” Books
The Carroll Shelby Foundation is offering 66 signed copies of “Go Like Hell – Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans.” The critically acclaimed book tells the remarkable story of how Carroll Shelby helped Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca and the Ford company defeat mighty Ferrari at the 24 Hours [...] Related stories:
  1. Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans – Book Review
  2. Holiday Gift Ideas – Motorsports Books and More
  3. Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum Dedication

10.11.2009
JWR Collection Featured at AACA Museum

JWR Collection Featured at AACA Museum
The Antique Auto Museum (AACA Museum) at Hershey will have a special exhibit featuring six spectacular and diverse vehicles from the JWR Automobile Museum Collection which exclusively features the collections of Mr. John “Jack” Rich. The special exhibit will run until January 10th, 2010. Featured vehicles from this collection will span from the [...] Related stories:
  1. Night at the Museum Gala – RM Auctions and AACA
  2. AACA Night at the Museum Charity Auction
  3. Zach Rolls-Royce Collection Featured at RM Monaco Sale

06.11.2009
New Board Members at LeMay Museum

New Board Members at LeMay Museum
LeMay – America’s Car Museum recently appointed two new directors to the board at the board meeting held last month. Moray Callum, Executive Director of Ford America Design and Richard Davis, President and CEO of Standard Parts Corporation were both named to the LeMay Museum board of directors during the meeting. David Lowe [...] Related stories:
  1. LeMay Museum and Bonhams Create New Auction
  2. LeMay Museum Auction Results – Bonhams
  3. Panamera Exhibit at Porsche Museum

03.11.2009
John O’Quinn (1941 – 2009)

John O’Quinn (1941 – 2009)
Story by Leigh Dorrington Houston trial attorney John O’Quinn, who has recently emerged as a towering figure in automotive and art purchases for a proposed museum, was killed in an automobile accident in Houston on Thursday, October 30. O’Quinn and his partner Darla Lexington, president of the O’Quinn Collection, have become known to auction participants and [...] Related stories:
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  2. Grand Sport Corvette Added to Simeone Collection
  3. Auburn Auction – Worldwide Auctioneers

16.10.2009
New Classic Website at Mercedes-Benz

New Classic Website at Mercedes-Benz
Everything is new at www.mercedes-benz.com/classic: presented in customer-friendly form, the Portal has detailed information and offers relating to the classic vehicle activities of Mercedes-Benz, i.e. the Museum, Classic Center, Archive and Collection, Young Classics, Mercedes-Benz Clubs and Classic Magazine. A central contact point and single contact address make the site easy to use. “Our new Internet [...] Related stories:
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  2. Mercedes-Benz at 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed
  3. Mercedes-Benz Classic Center

05.10.2009
Collectors Fair at Mercedes-Benz Museum

Collectors Fair at Mercedes-Benz Museum
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is holding its first collectors fair for models, brochures, literature, pins and accessories on November 28th, 2009 from 9:00am to 6:00pm. To mark the occasion of the first Mercedes-Benz collectors fair, two strictly limited Silver Arrow pins will be available on fair day. In addition, the Mercedes-Benz Museum will be offering two [...] Related stories:
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  2. Mercedes-Benz at 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed
  3. Mercedes-Benz Classic Center

29.09.2009
Shelby 427 Competition Cobra – Car Profile

Shelby 427 Competition Cobra – Car Profile
This 1965 Shelby 427 Competition Cobra (CSX3006) will be offered for sale at RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Automobiles of London auction to be held October 28th, 2009 at Battersea Evolution in London. Its pre-sale estimate is unavailable. According to the Shelby American World Registry, chassis CSX 3006 was billed to Shelby American on December 31, 1964. [...] Related stories:
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  2. Shelby 427 Cobra ‘Flip-Top’ Roadster – Car Profile
  3. Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe to Headline Monterey Sale

09.09.2009
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans – Book Review

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans – Book Review
Book Review, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans Go Like Hell tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned car builder, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent Ford Motor [...] Related stories:
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  2. Ferrari 312P & 312PB – Book Review
  3. Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed – Book Review

24.08.2009
Ford Escort RS1600 Rally – Car Profile

Ford Escort RS1600 Rally – Car Profile
In late 1967, the new and much lighter Escort was forecast to be the most suitable model in the Ford range to replace the aging Cortina, which in Mk1 and Mk2 Lotus-badged guise had become the company’s main competition car, the later model initially even employing the same Twin Cam engine as the Lotus Cortinas. However, [...] Related stories:
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04.08.2009
Photography of Zoltan Glass Digitized

Photography of Zoltan Glass Digitized
The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure. The project, which aims to scan a large proportion of the photographs housed in the Zoltán Glass archive, will systematically catalog the work of the artist, whose main creative periods came in the 1930s and 1950s, and to [...] Related stories:
  1. New Classic Website at Mercedes-Benz
  2. Collectors Fair at Mercedes-Benz Museum
  3. Mercedes-Benz at 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed

28.07.2009
Racing Legend Andy Granatelli Makes Request

Racing Legend Andy Granatelli Makes Request
Andy Granatelli fielded cars at the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 until 1991, as a driver but more notably as a team owner, culminating with Mario Andretti driving victory at the 1969 Indy 500. Granatelli, inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2001, now plans [...] Related stories:
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  3. Legend of the Motorcycle Results – Bonhams & Butterfields

22.07.2009
Ward Brothers Collection Results – Bonhams

Ward Brothers Collection Results – Bonhams
The Boat Tent at Henley-on-Thames was packed with collectors for the Bonhams sale of the Ward Brothers’ Reserve Collection on Saturday, July 18th. With interest on a global level, total sales reached in excess of £2 million and successful buyers came from no less than fifteen different countries. The sale embraced land, sea and air transport, [...] Related stories:
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