Nostalgia Highway

(July 23, 2015) WALWORTH, Wis. — The cars that populate the concours and other events throughout the world-renowned Monterey Classic Car Week are most often prototypical pre-war classics and European sports cars that have established themselves as some of the most collectible on the planet.

(July 16, 2015) On this date in 1935, drivers in Oklahoma City were confronted with America's first parking meter, collecting rent for a space on the corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue.

While local drivers could avoid that single space, they couldn't escape for long. That meter was just the first of many to sprout up in Oklahoma City and across the nation, as millions of ticketed motorists will attest.

(July 15, 2015) LONDON — Voting is heating up in a new global poll by Classic & Sports Car magazine to find the best British car of all time, with the much-loved Jaguar E-type taking a narrow lead with just a few weeks to go until the poll closes.

(July 15, 2015) The very last car special-ordered by The King of Cool — the late movie star Steve McQueen — will be offered for sale at the Mecum Daytime Auction in Monterey Aug. 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa – Del Monte Golf Course. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the 1976 Porsche 930 Turbo Carrera will be donated to McQueen’s alma mater, the reform school Boys Republic.

(July 14, 2015) BEAULIEU, England — Land Rovers of all ages and varieties will be heading to Beaulieu on Sunday, Aug. 9, for Simply Land Rover. Now in its third year the event taking place in the grounds of the National Motor Museum puts on an impressive display that is sure to appeal to fans of Britain’s best-loved off-roader.

(July 13, 2015) TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Hagerty Classic Cars magazine took over a Chicago-area drive-in to celebrate the 6th annual Collector Car Appreciation Day on July 10. Those in classic cars received complimentary admission, and enjoyed a summer evening with the whole family. The event welcomed more than 500 cars, with some collectors driving nearly 200 miles to attend.

(July 10, 2015) PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Richard "Dicky" Riegel III, a member of the duPont family, has a strong first memory of the only duPont Model H in existence. As he and friends emerged from their first grade classroom, his grinning father awaited him in the one-of-a-kind car.

(July 8, 2015) LONDON — Classic Car Auctions (CCA) will be offering the ‘ultimate’ Land Rover Defender in its auction at CarFest South on Aug. 29. When the 90 and 110 Land Rover models were launched in 1983 they revolutionized the model in terms of both road handling and off-road ability and paved the way for what would become known as the Defender.

(July 8, 2015) WALWORTH, Wis. — The star of the ‘80s-era television series “Miami Vice” is coming to the Mecum Daytime Auction in Monterey this Aug. 13-15. No, not Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs — the flashy detectives played by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas who fought episode-after-episode against the seedy underworld of Miami — but their 1986 Ferrari Testarossa.

(July 8, 2015) MONTEREY, Calif. — The heart of historic downtown Monterey will be transformed into an outdoor motorsports museum when historic race cars line Alvarado Street between 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7,  as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca kicks off the annual Monterey Classic Car Week activities.