Nostalgia Highway

(June 30, 2015) Chevrolet's 1937 promotional film, "Conquering Roads," is a fascinating history lesson into road building 78 years ago. It depicts surprisingly modern highways of the era, including some intriguing footage of road construction.

Just as interesting are the cars and trucks of the time.

Photo by M. M. “Mike” Matune, Jr.

(June 30, 2015) CARLISLE, Pa. — Welcome to a true Mopar-lover’s paradise. There’s nothing quite like it anywhere in the world with over 2,500 vehicles from all eras of the Chrysler brand, classics, muscle cars, high-performance new models all converge on Carlisle for a one of a kind weekend.

The Chrysler Nationals will be held July 10-12 in Carlisle, Pa.

(June 23, 2015) LONDON — A 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost carrying ingenious painted "wood-effect" shooting brake coachwork from a car once owned by the future Edward VIII — one of the earliest "woodies" — burst through its £120,000 upper estimate to sell for £161,280 ($250,000) at H&H Classics’ June 20 auction. The sale was held in conjunction with the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts’ Club Annual Concours & Rally at Burghley House, Lincolnshire.

(June 22, 2015) PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Hopes ran high for the 1949 Ferrari 166 Mille Miglia owned by Jim Kimberly when it pulled to the starting line of the 2nd annual Pebble Beach Road Races in 1951. It was the first Ferrari ever to race in California. Just a few weeks prior, it had triumphed over all of the competition in its first West Coast race in Palm Springs.

(June 20, 2015) TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Summer begins Sunday and to kick-off the season the collector vehicle experts at Hagerty have named their favorite classic convertibles for the summer months.

(June 19, 2015) LONDON — Captain Nemo's six-wheeled Nautilus car from Sean Connery’s adventure movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will be sold by international auctioneers Coys at their Blenheim Palace auction on July 11.

(June 17, 2015) The design team at Ford shows how a car is built from concept to reality in this riveting video. The ending shows the 1955 Lincoln Futura in a wind tunnel, freeze chamber, and on road testing.

The Futura was designed by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company by lead stylists Bill Schmidt and John Najjar Ferzely and built by Ghia entirely by hand in Turin, Italy. It was shown on the auto show circuit in 1955.

(June 10, 2015) WARREN, Mich. — Craftspeople and technicians at the General Motors Design Center are painstakingly restoring the historic 1 millionth Chevrolet Corvette damaged nearly 16 months ago when a sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky.

(June 10, 2015) The Mecum Seattle 2015 auction held at the CenturyLink Field Event Center this past weekend achieved $9,517,676 in total sales with all five cars in the John Wickey Collection selling for $630,000 overall.

(June 5, 2015) WALWORTH, Wis. — Mecum Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction company, will stage its premiere event in Denver June 26-27 at the Colorado Convention Center with 700 American muscle cars, classics, Corvettes, hot rods, Resto Mods and more expected to cross the auction block from an estimated 15 surrounding states.