Retromobile roundup: About that Squire…

While we here in the Northeast spent all weekend chipping ice dams off our roofs, Retromobile debuted a new, shorter format for France’s best-known and largest indoor old-car event. Fortunately, our friend Kit Foster made the trip and reported on the Squire we wrote about last week (let’s call it artfully preserved…), and so far […]

ECTA searching for new land-speed racing venues

Image courtesy ecta-lsr.com In the decade or so since the formation of the East Coast Timing Association, Maxton, North Carolina, has become a hot rodding hot spot, thanks to the events that the ECTA stages on a one-mile stretch of a little-used World War II-era runway in Maxton. Yet that stands to change next year […]

Porsche Restores One Of Its Own

Do you remember BMW’s recent in-house, modern-day build of a vintage 2002 that was done entirely from NOS and reproduction parts? That special project was handled by BMW Mobile Tradition, and videos of the build can be seen here, here and here. Mercedes-Benz Classic has been restoring its own cars for years in Germany, and […]