Classic Auto Archive

Monaco and the Machines: The Cars That Were Built for a Race Like No One Else's

Monaco and the Machines: The Cars That Were Bui...

Monaco rewards precision over power, feel over brute force — which is why the cars that thrive there tend to be the most interesting to look at closely. As the...

Monaco and the Machines: The Cars That Were Bui...

Monaco rewards precision over power, feel over brute force — which is why the cars that thrive there tend to be the most interesting to look at closely. As the...

The Shelby Cobra 289: Exactly What It Needed to Be, Nothing More

The Shelby Cobra 289: Exactly What It Needed to...

Carroll Shelby's formula was simple: find the lightest roadster available, install the biggest Ford V8 that would fit, and go racing. The Cobra 289 was the result — under 2,000...

The Shelby Cobra 289: Exactly What It Needed to...

Carroll Shelby's formula was simple: find the lightest roadster available, install the biggest Ford V8 that would fit, and go racing. The Cobra 289 was the result — under 2,000...

The Duesenberg Model J: When American Cars Made Europeans Pay Attention

The Duesenberg Model J: When American Cars Made...

The word "Duesie" entered American English because no other word was adequate. The Model J was the most powerful, most expensive, and most thoroughly engineered American car of its era...

The Duesenberg Model J: When American Cars Made...

The word "Duesie" entered American English because no other word was adequate. The Model J was the most powerful, most expensive, and most thoroughly engineered American car of its era...

Built to the Edge: Five F1 Cars That Were Too Fast for Their Own Good (Miami Grand Prix Week)

Built to the Edge: Five F1 Cars That Were Too F...

Some of the most significant Formula One cars ever built were also the most dangerous — not because of careless engineering, but because the engineers pushed past what anyone fully...

Built to the Edge: Five F1 Cars That Were Too F...

Some of the most significant Formula One cars ever built were also the most dangerous — not because of careless engineering, but because the engineers pushed past what anyone fully...

The Cord 812: Fifty Years Ahead, and Nobody Quite Ready for It

The Cord 812: Fifty Years Ahead, and Nobody Qui...

1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Excerpt: Front-wheel drive, concealed headlamps, a supercharged V8, and a coffin-nose design so advanced it was patented. The Cord 812 arrived in 1936, outlasted the company...

The Cord 812: Fifty Years Ahead, and Nobody Qui...

1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Excerpt: Front-wheel drive, concealed headlamps, a supercharged V8, and a coffin-nose design so advanced it was patented. The Cord 812 arrived in 1936, outlasted the company...

The 1968 Ford GT40 Mark IV: The Race Ford Had to Win

The 1968 Ford GT40 Mark IV: The Race Ford Had t...

Henry Ford II tried to buy Ferrari. Enzo walked away. What followed was one of the most expensive acts of corporate revenge in motorsport history — and one of the...

The 1968 Ford GT40 Mark IV: The Race Ford Had t...

Henry Ford II tried to buy Ferrari. Enzo walked away. What followed was one of the most expensive acts of corporate revenge in motorsport history — and one of the...