Virgil Exner had a problem, and the solution arrived in Turin. By the early 1950s, Chrysler was losing to eleven other American manufacturers in domestic sales, saddled with cars so conservative that the automo...
Carroll Shelby had a habit of making things difficult for himself just to prove they could be done. Strip the roof off a performance car already a compromise in structural rigidity and you invite a cascade of p...
The Shelby 289 Cobra stands as one of the most iconic and revered cars in automotive history, symbolising the birth of American performance and innovation during the 1960s. This AngloAmerican hybrid, with its r...
The Shelby GT350 H is one of the most legendary and audacious chapters in American automotive history, a story that brought together performance and accessibility in a way no one could have imagined. When Ford,...
Few cars evoke the raw power and racing heritage of the Shelby GT350, and the 1967 fastback iteration cemented its place as one of the alltime greats. While the original GT350 of 1965 was already a highly rever...
In the annals of American muscle car history, the 1967 Shelby GT500 Fastback stands out as a symbol of raw power and aggressive styling. Designed to take on the highperformance mantle of its predecessors while...
The story of the DualGhia Convertible begins not on a design studio floor but on a Detroit show circuit in 1953, when a concept car called the Dodge Firearrow was drawing the kind of crowds that productionline...
In the annals of American automotive history, few cars hold as iconic a status as the Chevrolet Corvette. Introduced in 1953, the firstgeneration Corvette, known as the C1, was a bold venture by Chevrolet to cr...
Twentysix. That's the entire production run of the Stanley Model K SemiRacer a number so small it barely registers as a footnote in conventional automotive history, yet every one of those cars represented somet...
When Howard Darrin unveiled his slidingdoor roadster prototype to Henry J. Kaiser in 1952, the industrialist was reportedly furious not impressed. It took Mrs. Kaiser's enchantment with the design to convince h...
The automotive landscape of the mid1950s witnessed the arrival of a car that would forever change how Americans viewed personal transportation. When the Ford Thunderbird debuted in 1955, it represented somethin...