If a Corniche is just too common, you might be interested in this open-air 1987 Rolls-Royce Camargue. How’s this for exclusivity? There’s exactly one of these in all the wide world. I actually set eyes on this car at the Gooding auction at Pebble Beach earlier this year, where it was a no-sale, and I […]

During the late 1950s, Raymond Loewy made a break from designing cars for Studebaker and went on a European trip, designing cars for Jaguar, BMW, and as we see from the January 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Lancia as well. The Loraymo, as Loewy called it, was based on a 1959 Lancia Flaminia chassis and […]

Hey, a piece of auto-related pop culture ephemera that didn’t come from diskojoe! From back in the early days of Saturday Night Live (Season 1, Episode 10, 1975) comes “Mechanics Bedtime Story,” a skit featuring Dan Akroyd as a somewhat believable mechanic. Akroyd’s played quite a few characters heavily involved with old American iron: He […]