The Canadian auction house, RM, was chosen to oversee liquidation of the onetime Bertone Museum, and its 30-car auction at the end of May in Italy promises to be one of the high-end sales season’s very peaks. Six of the cars will be actual Bertone creations, dating from the 1963 Chevrolet Testudo. Arguably, the wildest […]

Image courtesy ToyotaReference.com In the mid-1980s, front-wheel drive was in. If an automotive company hadn’t already switched a segment of its lineup from rear-wheel-drive to front in the years right around 1980, then it was doing so by a few years later, the second great wave of the transition. We see that pattern with Toyota, […]

Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org It’s amazing how much you can take away from a single photo. Take, for instance, the car in this shot from the Rueben Greene collection, which shows the everyday occurrence of a man filling it up with gasoline. From just the hub cap, fender line and roof shape, we […]