Andy Gilberg and his March Cars
Andy Gilberg cherishes his collection of March race cars. He was about 14, and his uncle, the track announcer, invited him to an SCCA race in Donaldsonville, Georgia. Gilberg saw…
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Klairmont Kollections: The Chicago Connection
In Chicago, the Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum (KKAM) displays 300 vehicles — from the Brass Era to Classic Muscle. Lately, the KKAM curatorial team has been focusing on adding vehicles with…
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Stahls Auto Collection
This Michigan car museum has a Tucker and a turbine, electrics long before Teslas, a Civil War-vintage stagecoach, historic organs and automobilia that will make you sing praises for the…
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Budd’s and Laurie’s Garage
At the fifth Arizona Concours d’Elegance in Scottsdale this past winter, Budd and Laurie Florkiewicz showed a 1939 Delahaye and a 1949 Alfa Romeo from their 28-car collection (“Budd’s Garage”),…
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Aaron & Valerie Weiss’s ‘Beaters’
Aaron and Valerie Weiss affectionately call their cars “our beaters.” These automotive treasures, showcased in a Pasadena warehouse, include many award winners: a Deusy, Rolls Royce, a Marmon V-16. So,…
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Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum: Carriages to Cars
The Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum comprises 160 horse-drawn vehicles and antique motor vehicles used for the pioneer Wyoming city’s Cheyenne Frontier Days parades every July. The event was…
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Hooked on The Los Angeles County Fire Museum
‘Do you know what a paramedic is?’ —EMERGENCY! Classic cars gain panache and value with racing history: They’ve won at Le Mans, Indy or Daytona or run the Mille Miglia…
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The General Patton Memorial Museum Reminds us this November 11 that Veterans Day is Every Day
‘The highest privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.’ -General George S. Patton Jr. Next time you’re on I-10 east or west near Indio, California, watch…
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Fred Wagenhals: Life Begins with a Willys
Fred Wagenhals has always been driven. To race, to invent, to thrive, to live. The Paradise Valley, Arizona, resident and chairman and CEO of Ammo Inc. loves driving the four-wheel-drive…
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Jim Watts: 17 Cars & Cycles on the Coast
Jim Watts has two ’52 Jowett Jupiters, one with a history out of this world. He and his wife Pam steward a collection of nine cars and eight motorcycles in…
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The Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting in Phoenix Honors the Granite Mountain Hotshots of Prescott
‘Hands of Mercy, Hearts of Courage, You have saved us from the flames’ –– ‘Blazing Honor,’ a song by Denise Whitley (Roggio) The Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting celebrates…
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National WWI Museum and Memorial: War Wheels
‘The moral climax of this, the culminating and final war for human liberty, has come.’ ––Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917 The National WWI Museum and Memorial…
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Jim Coles: Garage Mahal, Montana
If he chooses, Jim Coles can joyously fish, hike, ski or boat year round in magnificent Whitefish, Montana. But, without reel, boots, oars or poles, he’s still happy enjoying his…
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Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart: ‘Tradition Meets Innovation’
On June 28, 1926, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), manufacturer of the 35-horse Mercedes in 1901, and Benz & Cie, whose founder shares credit for inventing the first internal combustion-powered automobile 15 years…
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MoMA –– Cars on the Walls
Here are nine autos you could start your art collection with. They’re beautifully parked at the distinguished Museum of Modern Art in New York City, world renowned for its modern…
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Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum –– The Fast Life in Irvine
Carroll would have driven, quickly, to this opening –– in, of course, a Shelby. The Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum opened October 30 at 5 Whatney in Irvine, California.…
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Of Cycles & Lotus: The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
In the 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama’s George Barber won racing Porsches. Today his home-town Vintage Motorsports Museum is winning both car and motorcycle enthusiasts. Documented in 2016 as the world’s largest…
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To Honor Those Who Have Served and Their Vehicles, Land, Sea and Air: The National Museum of the United States Army
The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”: On November 11, 1918, the Armistice declared the end of hostilities for World War I, “the war to end…
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Jaguar E-Type: 60 Years of Beauty
Sir William Lyons: Cheers on the 60th anniversary of the E-Type. For the Jaguar founder (1901–1985), the starting line for the extraordinary E-Type was in 1922 with Swallow Sidecars, a…
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Alcatraz East: Driven to Crime
Alcatraz West was never a good place. Alcatraz East is, and it’s reopened. Posting notice that it’s the “most arresting crime museum in the United States,” the Alcatraz East Crime…
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Jim Bridgewater: ‘I am Blessed’
For Jim Bridgewater, 1937 was and is a very good year. Born in downtown Phoenix in 1937, he now lives in uptown Paradise Valley near landmark Camelback and Mummy mountains.…
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The NB Center for American Automotive Heritage: Classic Clockwork
The collection assembled by Nicola Bulgari runs like no other. Nicola Bulgari, the retired vice-chairman of the Italian luxury jewelry, watches and accessories brand, assembled a collection of 250–300 cars…
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Janet Cussler: Can a Woman Have Too Many Packards?
Janet Cussler’s classic-car garage is completely novel. With daughter Whitney, she owns the Janet Cussler Car Collection in north Scottsdale. For the last 11 years of his robust life, she…
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Steve Kimpton: ‘I Don’t Collect Them and I’m Not Very Good at Selling Them, I Just Love Them’
Steve Kimpton loves every one of his eclectic vehicles. And his new garage. Each car represents his lifelong passion for rare vehicles –– from his early life in a small…
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