RARE SALEEN S7: SILVER STREAK!

Out of approximately 1,500 S7 Supercars built by Steve Saleen’s iconic company, just one was painted Speedlab Silver. If you’re a numbers guy, this 550-horsepower S7, is one of just eight built in 2004 and tops out at over 200 mph. Saleen’s S7 is a true road warrior, a racecar with license plates! They built just 30 that were powered by naturally aspirated, rather than the 750 horsepower twin-turbocharged, aluminum 7.0 Liter Ford engines. The Saleen S7 was originally designed in the UK for Sa...
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’29 FORD ‘DICK FLINT’ ROADSTER: ICONIC ROD!


The May 1952 HOT ROD Magazine cover car and Class winner at the Pebble Beach Concours and Grand National Roadster Show, to cross the block at the  RM Art of the Automobile Auction next week.
 Dick Flint’s hot rod was “Hot Rod of the Month” in the May 1952 issue of HOT ROD shot by Felix Zelenka and illustrated with a Rex Burnett cutaway drawing. The car’s contours were perfect, and its hand-formed aluminum pan functional belly pan created by Valley Custom’s Neil Emory and Clay Jensen an...
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’64 CORVETTE PROTOTYPE: CERV II!

Zora Arkus-Duntov’s legendary torque-vectoring AWD Corvette test mule to cross the block at RM’s Art of the Automobile Auction next week. The 1950s were a Golden Age for American car companies, but this was not by chance; it was because of designers and brilliant engineers like Zora Arkus-Duntov. Indeed, few innovators can take credit for redirecting the entire focus of an industry. He is rightfully regarded as the “Father of the Corvette,” taking the staid powerplant of its inaugural year a...
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MONTEREY 2013: OFF THE BEATEN PATH!

We sent our friend Jim Palam to Monterey to come up with stuff not necessarily covered by the usual suspects. Palam never disappoints! ‘You Snooze You Lose.’ Peter Inshaw's '63 Alfa Giuliett Spider 1600 and friend in the pits at Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway on Saturday.

 ‘It's A Gamble.’ #22 BMW 3.5 CSL makes an unplanned early departure from Laguna Seca Saturday afternoon. Ouch!

‘ 'Available In Mobster Black.’ Talk about attitude: This '62 Dual Ghia L6.4 Coupe held court in the outside s...
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