‘Together, we’ve broken world records, endured intense heat, bitter cold and traversed some of the world’s most awe-inspiring, remote landscapes. –Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes Land Rover is 70 this year – affirming, with youthful vigor, that “70 is the new 20.” Unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show April 30, 1948, as Land Rover Series I, the marque evolved in its first 22 years from a Second World War-inspired four-wheel-drive to the Range Rover in 1970, which pioneered today’s luxury SUV niche. King George VI received the 100th production car. During the second year of production, 16,000 of Series I were […]
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“These cars are an important part of automotive history, and, as owners, we are their caretakers,” Terry Larson says. The Mesa, Arizona, resident knows how to take care of them, for sure –– in particular, Jaguars, the company co-founded by Sir William Lyons as a motorcycle sidecar business in 1920s England. For moving on five decades, Larson has restored, raced and stewarded examples of the great marque with finesse and passion, in recent years from his hand-crafted garage in Mesa. He and wife Darlene have a 1938 Jaguar SS 100 3 ½ litre; an XK120 roadster; a 1952 Hangsen Jaguar; […]
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Alpio Barbara hosts Cars and Coffee every month at work –– and enjoys his prized cars every day at home, with or without a cup of joe. Cars and Coffee happens the second Saturday of each month, 7–10 a.m., at his Alpio’s at Troon –– “Let’s Go Back in Time” –– in the Villages of Pinnacle Peak, 10452 East Jomax Road, at Alma School Road in north Scottsdale. The native Californian opened the event center in April 2016, and Valley car- and cycle-lovers have been revved since. With an events-friendly double mezzanine level, Alpios Place also hosts birthday celebrations, baby […]
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Mark J. Pieloch enjoys flexing his muscle cars, and he didn’t need George Atlas for directions. His American Muscle Car Museum in Melbourne, Florida, southeast of Orlando, numbers 26 Yenko Chevys, making his the most extensive collection in the world of these signature Corvairs, Camaros, Novas and Chevelles. The collection of 281 American muscle cars also has more than 100 first-place national-show winning frame-off restored cars; 47 years of Indy 500 Pace Cars and Trucks, 1955 through 2017; 30-plus Shelbys, including a 2017; and eight Ford GTs, representing every color built. Sixty-three of the vehicles show less than 100 original […]
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A 13th-century abbey; a 16th-century palace; an 1875 Grenville steam carriage, probably the oldest running self-propelled passenger-carrying road vehicle; 20th-century land-speed record breakers; and a contemporary oversized orange Mini, neither historic nor fast: The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England, has assembled these and other automotive thrills into one must-visit package. Comprising 250-plus vehicles, the world-famous collection celebrates 800 years of British history and almost 140 years of automobiles, from early days to modern times, including family vehicles, great sports cars, early motorcycles and commercial vehicles. At the head of the Beaulieu River, the village of Beaulieu is in New […]
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Mark Kramer, 71, saw his first Ferrari in August 1962. He was 15 and had seen car heaven. “It was a 250 Spider, and I saw it on the Via Veneto. A young Italian guy got out with a beautiful girl, and I fell in love with the car and the cars of Ferrari,” says Kramer, a Phoenix resident who notes that he’s called by his last name, the character on the Seinfeld sitcom. Today, he enjoys his collection of Prancing Stallions at his Arcadia-area garage, dating from the earliest, a 1972 365 GTB/4 “Daytona,” through the most recent vintage, […]
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