Bobby Clark
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A gas-turbine Rover-BRM driven by Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart finished 10th at Le Mans in 1965
In 1965, a Rover-BRM gas turbine car crossed the finish line of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 10th place. Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart…
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6 factory drag cars that were nearly too powerful for the street
A factory lightweight drag car was a showroom model with the street parts taken out and race parts put in. Detroit built these cars in…
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8 Mini variants that showed what the brand could really build
By the end of 1961, BMC had turned its tiny sedan into five new body styles. Together, they included a Mini Van, a pickup, a…
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Renault’s one-off 8 Gordini concept turns the 1960s four-door into a 270-hp electric two-seat coupe
The Renault 8 Gordini Concept takes a car that was only ever sold as a four-door sedan and turns it into a two-seat electric coupe.…
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7 Australian muscle cars so rare even collectors rarely see them
Many low-production Australian muscle cars exist because of one race: Bathurst. Several were homologation specials, built in just the numbers needed to qualify a race…
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Harry Truman’s last car, a 1972 Chrysler Newport, wore plate 5745 for V-E Day and shows under 19,000 miles
Harry Truman’s last car was a light green 1972 Chrysler Newport, and it still sits in the garage behind his house in Independence, Missouri. The…
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No more than about 25 Maybach Zeppelins were built as the DS 8, with an 8-liter, 200-hp V12
Maybach built about 1,800 cars before the war ended its car business. Roughly 200 of them were Zeppelins, and no more than about 25 were…
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Renault’s 1.5-liter turbo V6 won its first Grand Prix at Dijon in 1979, two years after the RS01 debuted
On July 1, 1979, Jean-Pierre Jabouille drove the Renault RS10 to victory in the French Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois. It was the first Formula 1…
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How Honda’s VTEC switched cam lobes at about 4,500 rpm to get 160 hp from the 1989 Integra’s 1.6 liters
Honda VTEC gave a small four-cylinder engine two personalities, one for town and one for the top of the tachometer. It first went on sale…
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A Trabant ordered in 1976 was registered on the day the Berlin Wall fell, after a 13-year wait
One Trabant in a museum collection carries a whole East German story in its paperwork. Its buyer ordered it in 1976 and then waited 13…
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