It’s part Dr. Frankenstein, part Andy Granatelli. A place where old Fiat 500s are reborn, given new life, and prepped...
Garage Profiles
Profiles of garages, museums and other collector car facilities. These are the truly awe-inspiring car collections, the types of car collections that make fans weak at the knees. Whether they are filled with the latest supercars, or exclusive vintage cars, or the most extremely rare models ever made, these are the garages and collections we are most jealous of. Here is to the greatest car collections in the world today and the people who own them.
All photos by Matt Stone Most people might believe that Japan’s automotive history dates to sometime in the 1960s, because...
Car collector Corrado Lopresto has assembled the finest field of Italian automobiles in all of Italy (and possibly in the world). Sports Car Digest was given a rare look at the classics, and some of the quirks, that make up the Lopresto Collection. Just beyond these doors lie one-of-a-kind Lancias,...
Porsche Aftermarket Tuning: The State of Play There are few tuning companies in the world who are universally entrusted with...
If you follow professional sports car and endurance racing, you know the name Brumos, and its now iconic red, white,...
Bob Clarke is a committed car guy to say the least. And his tastes are wonderfully varied, from hot rods to Porsches and a lot in between.He’s also built himself one damn fine Man Cave in the Ventura County, California area, dedicated to his various collection pursuits. He’s nicknamed it...
Everybody starts somewhere. For Maserati, that beginning was epicentered at Via Pepoli 1 in Bologna, Italy, in December of 1914. ...
Bruce Meyers passed away last week at the age of 94. He lived a fulfilling life most of us can...
Around 60 years ago, Fritz Schlumpf purchased a collection of thirty Bugatti models after tough negotiations. He simply adored Bugatti: Schlumpf had to own as many of the vehicles as possible because he wanted to use them as a basis for establishing the biggest Bugatti collection in existence. In fact,...
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello opened its new exhibition — “Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans” — to celebrate seventy...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 that features ten race cars from the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 featuring ten race cars from the collection of Petersen Founding Chairman Bruce Meyer. Titled “Winning Numbers: The First, The Fastest, The Famous,” the exhibit contains cars from Meyer’s personal garage that broke land speed...
In 2012, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray profiled famed car collector, Jon Shirley. Ever gracious with his...
The debut Grand Basel was staged 6-9 September 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. Celebrating ‘Excellence in Motion’, the inaugural Basel edition...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th, 2018. On this very day in 1948, the Porsche 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster received its general operating permit. With this special exhibition, Porsche presents numerous stories and milestones through which...
Since it opened on June 1, 2017, the Newport Car Museum has attracted more than 14,000 visitors and become a...
The 2017 RM Sotheby’s New York City auction and exhibition was staged November 30 – December 6 at Sotheby’s York...
The Design Museum in London opened Ferrari: Under the Skin, an exhibition exploring the history and design of Ferrari. The show celebrates 70 years of development since the launch of the first car in 1947. Displaying rarely seen material from private collections, the display provides insight into the world of...
The first Classic Mazda Museum in Europe — and indeed the only one outside Japan — opened on 13th May...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of Ferrari.”...
The Petersen Automotive Museum’s “The Art of Bugatti” opened October 23rd and features one of the rarest gatherings of Bugatti automobiles in history. The exhibit also includes works of art by the Bugatti family including sculpture, furniture, paintings and more. The display is located in the Mullin Grand Salon on...
Story by Jo Clahsen | Photos by Steffen Jahn At Porsche, the “warehouse” is an unadorned industrial construction housing icons,...
If you’ve ever visited a museum and left feeling like you didn’t get to fully appreciate every detail of a...
March 31, 2016 may be a day that won’t make it into any official “History of Porsche” timelines but it is as momentous to North American Porsche lore, particularly in motorsports, as any. Late last year, Brumos Porsche was acquired by the Field Automotive Group and after 56 years, during...
In 2009 Sports Car Digest toured the Mario Righini Collection, one of the more exceptional private car collections in Italy,...
Alfa Romeo is celebrating its 105th anniversary by opening its historical museum in Arese, Milan, Italy to the public. The...
The Ralph Lauren Car Collection was featured at the 2014 Lime Rock Historic Festival, held August 29th to September 1st at Lime Rock Park. Among the Lauren automotive treasures on display at the picturesque road course in Connecticut were a 1929 Birkin Blower Bentley; 1964 Ferrari 250 LM; 1956 Jaguar...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor | Photos by author and Rhonda Kiblinger Wind back the clock on your DeLorean to...
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, the Modena, Italy-based museum that opened in 2012 on the site of the house in which...
The RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Art of the Automobile sale and exhibition was staged November 18-21, 2013 in New York City. The first major collector car auction to be held in Manhattan in over a decade saw 31 automobiles and two motorcycles vehicles cross the auction block. With the auction...
