Everyone’s favorite car on this year’s Mountain Mille was a 1954 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe driven by a husband and wife team of newly-retired Army Colonels—Yes, Sir! Yes, Ma’am!—in training for next year’s Mille Miglia. Yes, every Vintage Rallies event is unique!
Lifelong car enthusiasts, the Keno brothers started getting their hands dirty restoring cars with their father at a young age. Over the years, they have collected, judged and raced vintage automobiles. As they do with antiques, the Keno brothers express a preference for originality. Their passion has been on display for over a decade.
Auctions America has been named the official auction house of the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance. From American classics to European sports cars, the weekend’s auction will span the spectrum of the market, shining spotlights on examples of excellence in automotive styling and engineering.
The car that Porsche purists would build for themselves if they were running the show in Stuttgart: a Cayman with the 911 Carrera S engine. But Stuttgart isn’t satisfied with mere engine upgrades. And so to create the Cayman GT4, the wizards of Weissach reworked.
On the 2014 Texas 1000, two rallyists from Santa Fe suggested that Jean and I organize one of our Vintage Rallies in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. So we did. Our first Southwest Passage was so overbooked that our crew had to stay in a separate hotel when we ran out of rooms.
Porsche Rennsport Reunion is the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars, renowned drivers, and Porsche collector cars. This September the event returns to the historic and picturesque Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for an encore.
There are arguably a score of excellent multi-day vintage rally and tour events held around the world each year, many held in wonderful places with terrific roads and contested by exciting and beautiful cars. However, it can be definitively declared that all the rest exist as a tribute to the greatest historic driving event of them all, the historic Mille Miglia of Italy.
If you find yourself in the Mojave desert at the end of next week you’ll be in for an treat, Barrett-Jackson is hosting their next auction at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on September 24-26th with many great cars to watch. Premier’s Southeast Sales Manager, Chris Warren is watching the 1979 Porsche 930 Turbo at Lot 726.
1975 was a sad year for performance cars. When Corvettes and Ferrari 308s could barely muster 8-second 0-60 sprints, you knew things were grim. And then came hope in the pages of Car & Driver’s December issue: the Porsche Turbo Carrera.
