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Alexis Bittar NYC Jewelry

...hen. As a child, Bittar accompanied his parents to flea markets, where they collected and sold rare antiques and collectibles. At the tender age of 10, Bittar showed his entrepreneurial spirit by sell...

Leslie Greene Jewelry

...ests , including fashion, home decor, antiquing, and the fine arts. As an avid world traveler, rare antiques, vintage wallpaper, and historical architecture lend inspiration to new designs. The daught...

Nicky Butler Jewelry

...e to the ring. $80 The heirloom-like jewelry Nicky Butler is known for stems from years of dealing antiques in London's Portobello Market (the world's largest antique marketplace) and the ann...

Late September Festivities

...is weekend. The 46th Annual Virgina Peanut Festival kicks off today offering live music, art and antiques, a Peanut Cook-Off and delicious food for festival goers to enjoy. Oyster lovers should he...

Antique Cars Honour Franciscan Priest in Pebble Beach Drive

... the tour; a real treat to see and hear. The only thing that worried me was the stress put upon the antiques class (built before 1916) as they struggled to keep up on a steeply-hilled course. Fortunat...

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Florida Hotels offer Checked Baggage Credit

...much more. Amelia Island Williams House (800) 414-9258 With its crystal chandeliers and beautiful antiques, the 10-room Amelia Island Williams House bed and breakfast treats guests to the historic...

Almost-Tuscany in Virginia, USA

...ountry, in a 1912 Tuscan-style mansion that has been expanded and renovated over the years. Its 48 antiques-filled guest rooms overlook formal gardens or rolling fields; public spaces feature wood-bur...

Cheap Eats in Phuket, Khao Lak

... Located on a nondescript street, the interior of this restaurant is decorated with vines, rafters, antiques and waterfalls. The tables are actually antique sewing tables, which provide the wea...

End of March Food and Wine Events

...nderland Maple Syrup Festival . The town invites visitors to come and enjoy live music, dancing, an antiques fair and pancakes smothered in maple syrup. More maple syrup to taste in Meyersdale, Penn...

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Remembering The Stanley Steamer

By Gunnar Heinrich With all the brouhaha that surrounds oil, our glutinous consumption of it, and our need to rip ourselves from it, it bears remembering a time when we did not have to rely on Mobil and BP to get us from A to B. The nearest means to add juice to your car was the nearest stream...

Baubles up for Bid

...ut about an online auction site called I Gavel . Billed as "the only truly online fine art and antiques auction house," iGavel is located in NYC, and hosts a plethora of auctions in fine art...

Treasures from Trocadero

... and fun! Trocadero bills itself as " the essential to buying & selling fine arts and antiques online ." It's a site with little online stores by antique and collectibles dealer...

The Most Expensive Hotels in the World

...nities of course: These, of course, are no ordinary suites. They come with bulletproof glass, rare antiques, designer interiors and 24-hour butlers; golden furniture, midair spa baths, epic views and...

Now You Can Drive a Jaguar E-Type Roadster in the UK and Europe

The Open Road, a popular UK renter of classic sports and sports sedans, opens its latest newsletter with: "Do you remember the first time you saw and heard a Jaguar E-Type?" No problem for this scribe. I was editor of Canada Track & Traffic magazine and had been offered an E-Type fo...

Chevrolet Chevelle SS Highlights Kruse Las Vegas Auction

...y similar to the big Scottsdale show organised by you-know-who. Needless to say there are many more antiques, classics and collector cars for sale so if you swing-and-a-miss on the Chevelle you...

Lotus, Chapman, Cosworth: Three Great Names in Engineering and Motor Racing

Nigel Matthew has an old friend who worked with Colin Chapman and Lotus from the latter's very beginnings. Later, realising the significance his experience must have had in the car world, the friend assembled a collage of photos, many taken during Chapman's early attempts at gain...

The Monte Carlo Rally: Mini, Ford, Saab, and an Irishman's Memoirs

Paddy Hopkirk? Now there's a name to recall if your memory reaches back to European rallying in the 60's as mine does. But even if it doesn't, listen here, friends. This talented racer drove Minis to some of the most spectacular Monte Carlo Rally wins ever recorded. " "The P...

Ferrari F430 Spider or Bentley Continental Speed GT? Not Me

I'm getting tired of classic car journalists boasting of their latest drive in a modern supercar . Why don't those guys stick to what they know best? The classics! For example, Nigel Matthews, who contributes to this site, recently tested a Bugatti Veyron in California. Now I lear...

A Postcard From the Forests, a Little South of Munich

From my brother Alan, currently in his annual European tour, comes this postcard featuring a Mercedes-Benz Type 320 Cabriolet A . The car is in a private museum whose owner passed away in 2002. The gentleman's collection, says Alan, included 225 cars representing a vast number of makes, some...

Historic Truck and Bus Literature Collection Goes on Sale

I was astonished when, a few years ago, my former About Cars colleagues Aaron Gold and Colin Hefferon told me of the huge interest in collecting vintage buses. Imagine the size of the garages ! Now comes word from Robert McLellan that his company was just presented with a thousand or so t...

A Creative Discovery

With this artwork I'd like to honor a friend and former colleague whom I consider to be one of the most talented illustrators and art directors I've had the privilege of knowing in 30 years as an ad writer. His name is Ray Fry and when this illustration was completed as part of his portfo...

Allstate, the World's First Catalog Car

It wasn't the first car sold by sears , Roebuck but it was definitely the last. Essentially a Henry J built by the Kaiser-Frazer company, the Allstate was conceived by Henry Kaiser as a means of expanding the market for his compact 2-door. Sear's vast customer base represented a uni...

It's Here: Fifty Years of Toyota

For those with short memories 50 years may seem a long time. For those of us who were there it feels like yesterday. For Toyota, it is time to celebrate its first half-century in the United States. The Toyopet Crown arrived in 1957 and not surprisingly Detroit hardly noticed this insignificant-lo...

One of Britain's Wealthiest Men Owns This Car, and Now it Can be Yours!

Maybe it's because of my slim budget but I just love featuring humble vintage automobiles. Here's a perfect example, a 1964 British Ford Anglia Deluxe Saloon. It comes from the Bernie Ecclestone Collection, which RM is auctioning at Battersea Park in London on October 31. You will, of c...

Mexico's Demanding Road Rally Re-Imagines Lincoln, Mercedes, Porsche Victories

It was, in its day, the world's most grueling road race. Now Hemmings calls it "the world's most grueling amateur road rally." It's La Carrera Panamericana , formerly known (in English-speaking countries) as the Mexican Road Race. I remember it as a young road racing enth...

Gooding's Good News for Scottsdale

You could easily get the impression these days that auctions dominate the collector car news. The business just keeps growing and growing, with more new events regularly announced in every country where enthusiasts buy and sell classic autos. While auction companies love to quote total sales (pro...

Scottsdale Auction Cut Back, Vegas is a Go

Barrett-Jackson recently announced that it will reduce the number of consignments to its Scottsdale auction by 20%. The company blames muddy conditions caused by last year's rain but I wonder if there's more to it than meets the eye. A few months ago Barrett-Jackson was struggling ...

2007 Concorso Lifts its Italian Skirts For a Peek

Amid all the glitter and glamour of Pebble Beach is a concours with its own version of G&G, mixed with a large helping of Italian brio. I am, of course, talking about Concorso Italiano , probably the largest gathering of vintage Italian machinery in North America. Held on a golf course sprea...

VW Rabbit Makes Test Drive History

Fifty years ago I performed and recorded, for radio, my first test drive as an automobile journalist. Last month I performed and wrote my last. During that lengthy period I've test-driven more cars than I can remember, many in glamorous locations on both sides of the Atlantic. And so, half a ...

Bling, Chrome, and Brightwork! American Car Ornamentation Shines Again

You may have noticed that chrome has been making a comeback on the new cars of our day, adding brightwork to otherwise plain exteriors. Not so long ago designers were eliminating just about anything that was purely decorative, even going so far as to substitute black trim for chrome! It wasn'...

Tacoma Agrees to Earlier Opening of the LeMay Museum

The fabulous architectural plan you are looking at is the future pavilion and Show Field of "The LeMay - America's Car Museum®," which, when finished, will be the largest and most comprehensive automobile museum in the world. It will include a collector car center; a show fie...

We (Nigel, That Is) Drive the Bugatti Veyron

Our ace contributor Nigel Matthews gets to drive some very exotic machinery but nothing could compare with his seat time in the Bugatti Veyron, the fastest and most expensive production-built car in the world. It is already a collector car and future classic, so his recounting of the event in his...

Legends of the Ring

Automobile historian Leo Levine has a brief, but captivating, article in this month's issue of the digital auto magazine Winding Road . In it he reminisces about practising and racing on the fabled Nurburgring during the 1950s, in its day the world's longest Race track at 14-plu...

Meet the Money Rats

I'm going to send you over to what Sports Car Market calls " The Top 10 Money Rats ." Hmmm... that depends on how much money you have available to spend on collector cars that aren't restored but are show-able and drive-able. Apparently there's a friendly battle happening ...

Why Is This Girl Not Smiling?

Out of a lifetime of changing jobs I managed to survive one career for 30 years. I was a copywriter, then a creative director, in the advertising agency business. Much of my work in Toronto, New York and London was on car accounts where the preferred medium was television. So you can appreciate t...

Minimal Motoring, the LA Solution

The citizens of Los Angeles and its visitors will once again have an opportunity to spend an evening with a knowledgeable guest at the Petersen Museum . On Tuesday, October 16 Charles Gould will present a unique collector's perspective on the preservation and restoration of microcars, as wel...

The Goddess of Speed

Now that the Pacific Northwest's autumn rains have arrived our Classical Drives contributor Nigel Matthews must be wishing he was again judging the first annual Barrington, Illinois, concours . While his wife shopped the area's classy shops Nigel took several photos under summer's wa...

Classical Drive's New Masthead Launched!

Our regular visitors will, I hope, notice that this site has an all-new masthead, one that symbolises both Classical Drive's editorial theme and our personal taste in automobile styling. The new masthead, by the way, was a team effort involving Creative Weblogging's art director (who did ...

Inspired Reading For Autumn Evenings

I have a minor collection of automotive and transportation books, including a few rare gems such as 1969's Automobile Revue (a once-coveted European publication), and The Encyclopedia of American Automobiles , printed back in 1968. Perhaps the rarest is an official Porsche photo book from ...

Japanese Lotus Bows For Canadian Collector

Colin Chapman has been called a genius by those who know. He was the God of Lightness, engineering cars that were lighter in weight and thus, with the same power, faster than anything in their class. His suspension concepts were equally brilliant. Early in his career Chapman produced the ...

Dagmar Sheds Her Dust, Definitely Not a Bust

According to the Old Cars Weekly site more than 20 rare and desirable vehicles were laid to rest in a Maryland barn. Owner Arthur "Buddy" Smith and his father operated a service business in the area and during the years acquired 25 collector cars, mostly unrestored, ranging from a 19...

A Voluminous Photo Gallery From a Vast Movie Cars Auction

When my friend Gary Grant, producer of thegarageblog , informed me that he had created a huge gallery of photographs from the recent Fawcett Movie Cars auction in Oshawa, he wasn't kidding. So many, in fact, that when you click on the photo album link , which I highly recommend, best go f...

The Temptations of Sunshine and a New Florida Auction

Ah, sunny Florida. As autumn closes in on the PNW (rain, fog, cool days) with winter not far behind (rain, fog, cool days), sunshine fanatics like me look to southern getaways. Originally an easterner, I'm accustomed to Florida as a destination, especially as one can drive there from Toronto,...

RM's Toronto Auction Offers Great Cars But Needs a New Home

When RM Auctions opens the Toronto International Centre's doors for its fall event I'll be reminded of an indoor aircraft show held there in the 1980s. It was organised by a pair of entrepreneurs who thought they'd spotted a business opportunity. I was hired to help with public rela...

Classic Cars Guy Dreams of His Own Business Jet

Okay, so here I am publishing another airplane blog when the subject is classic cars. I could excuse myself on the basis that high-end collectors are sufficiently wealthy to buy their own business jets or at least rent them, which is what Lufthansa Private Jets is promoting with this photo. But ...

Old Photos Don't Lie: The Truth About Cars in the 50s

I can remember the 1950s as well as anyone and of course tend to romanticise the period while I sit meditating with my morning coffee. How wonderful then, to discover a forum (thanks to Autoblog ) with a huge number of 50s city street scene photographs, most of which include automobiles. The foc...

Barrett-Jackson Expands With New Investment

It seems like nothing can stop the Barrett-Jackson juggernaut, not even the negative publicity following last year's Scottsdale auction or the property rights squabble with the City of Scottsdale which had B-J threatening to move elsewhere. The auction firm this week announced that Endeav...

Small: Not Just Beautiful But More Fun Than Big

I've always had a soft spot for small cars. That was something I acquired, quite accidentally, when a friend loaned me his 1952 Ford Anglia for a brief drive into downtown Toronto. Until then I'd only driven Detroit-built cars with their typical sloppy steering and goose -grease han...

A Tale of Sunbeams, LeMans, Harrington, and Classical Drive's Nigel Matthews

Nigel Matthews has kindly submitted some wonderful background info on the 1962 Sunbeam Harrington Le Mans shown above. The lovely sports hatchback has just come up for sale in Vancouver, BC. It appeared in that city's All British Field Meet a couple of years ago (where I saw and admired the c...

Shoot Your Car for $5000

It's not every day you can win cash with your collectible automobile. But my faithful Internet morning read, the New York Times , is actually offering $5000 for the best photo of a collectible car . Note: I didn't say "classic" as that would eliminate 99% of all collector cars...

Climbing Into the Clouds, Fast

It has been said that the hillclimb is the purest form of motor racing. The driver competes, uphill, on a public road , against the clock. It isn't a matter of outcornering the other guy on track, at risk of sending the both of you into the great beyond, it's a contest between you ...

Ginetta's Sexy Looks and Power Lures Us

Poised on blocks in his garage next to a Lotus Seven , rear bodywork raised to expose the innards, John Carroll's 1994 Ginetta may not look impressive but believe me, this is one sports car that's born to run. And as soon as he finishes all the planned modifications it will, indeed, ru...

Before There Was an Austin Healey: The Healey Silverstone

Herewith another Nigel Matthews photo from the inaugural Barrington concours where he was a judge and, luckily for us, unofficial Classical Drives reporter. I chose the 1950 Healey Silverstone for today's blog because I'm an admirer of bare-bones sports cars built, not for comfort, but ...

Vintage Bimmer Wins Tough Newfie Rally

Always on the spot when it matters, the good folks at Hemmings got our attention with results from the Targa Newfoundland , a performance rally in Canada's far out (in the Atlantic) province. I'm especially pleased that the overall winners drove a 1969 BMW 2002, a year younger than ...

Barrington Beauties Bared

Our good friend and occasional contributor Nigel Matthews has just returned from the inaugural Barrington, Illinois concours , where he was a judge in the Power and Grace-American Horsepower class. Nigel writes that: "The quality of the vehicles entered into the event were absolutely top ...

Straightening the Eight

The straight-eight engine, alas, is something we'll likely never see again, except at classic car meets. And that's a shame, for no conventional engine was as smooth and at the same time simple and elegant. Blame their demise, if you will, on the post-war desire to reduce hood lengths and...

A Studebaker For Adolf, Benito, Francisco and Other Losers

If Studebaker's marketing chiefs had looked ahead a couple of years, or even beyond America's borders, they might never have called this 1937 coupe the "Dictator." That's roughly equivalent to General Motors naming a 2008 model the "Bin Laden." Still, someone must ...

LeMay Museum's Grand Tour 2008: If You Have to Ask How Much, You Can't Afford It

"The Rich Are Not Like You and Me" goes the saying. This became painfully obvious when reading the entry information for the LeMay Museum's Grand Tour 2008 , a road trip from Paris to Rome that will help bring the world's foremost automotive museum one step closer to reality. T...

Mille Miglia: Live the Spirit of a Legend on DVD

Anyone with even the slightest interest in automotive history must surely be aware of the Mille Miglia, the legendary 1000-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back again. It was banned following a tragic accident when a competitor went off the road and into a group of spectators. The Mille lives o...

Grusliges Shopping-Erlebnis am Grassmarket in Edinburgh

Der Grassmarket ist eine der ehemaligen Hinrichtungsstätten von edinburgh . Heute beherbergt das Stadtviertel allerlei Kurioses: Von Second-Hand-Läden bis zur Geisterführung. Im Sommer ist das Stadtviertel auch Schauplatz diverser Veranstaltungen und mein Kollege kam ganz begeistert zur...

Good Excuse for Missing Kirkland, SCM Comes to the Rescue

You won't believe my excuse for not attending the Kirkland, WA, concours, which is probably the best in our Pacific Northwest. Herewith, a true confession: A friend, Gayle Kindred, who lives in Bothell not far from Kirkland (which is just across Lake Washington from Seattle), and whom ...

Wrong Airport, Safe Landing

My first view of Hershey, PA, was from the air. I was flying a Cessna C-172 from Toronto Island Airport along with three other pilots, all but one newly licensed. Our lone female pilot had flown the plane from Toronto to Buffalo, where we were required to check in with customs before continuing. ...

If An Engine Can Be Art, This Must Be A Masterpiece

This, the engine in John Carroll's Marcos GT , which we featured in a recent blog , is pure artistry. At least I think it is and I suspect John does, too. But why, exactly, am I mesmirised by his little 1.6 liter Cosworth ? Because it actually looks like an engine and also because, by cont...

VW Returns to Rear Engines. Ferry Porsche and I Approve

Ferry Porsche, son of the great Ferdinand, once honored me with an interview for a radio program that volkswagen was sponsoring. It was an odd situation inasmuch as I was employed by the company as a p.r. assistant while at the same time announcing (and getting paid for) a weekly show for ...

Kaiser Makes a Pickup. Or Did It?

File this under "what if?" As in "what if Kaiser-Frazer had built a pickup version of a Kaiser sedan a la Ranchero or El Camino ." Well, it seems Kaiser did, and Autoblog found the one-and-only for sale on e-Bay. At least that's the story supplied by the car's ...

A Free Day Driving Our Favorite Saloon... uh, Sedan

September is one of the best months to visit England. Most tourists have left, the weather's delightful with minimal rain, the air takes on that crisp feeling we North Americans associate with autumn. Stroll down an historic mews, stop at a pub for a Pint with bangers-and-mash, then sl...

Still Young in Their 80's, Two Automotive Icons Collaborate on a New Book

Nothing pleases me more than to see people in their 80's having a good time, working hard, still creating. I'm not that far off that age myself so such folks are a source of inspiration as well as proving that 80 isn't ancient anymore. Jim Wangers and Art Fitzpatrick are Living Proo...