Northeast Classic Car Museum
Among the Classics at the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich, N.Y. is this 1928 Cunningham Berline. photo courtesy Richard Lentinello One of the best-kept secrets in the collector car world is...
View ArticleCunningham planned a sedan?
Some of the most impressive post-war American cars came not from Detroit, but from West Palm Beach, Florida, where Briggs Cunningham built both his race and his street cars, the latter produced just...
View ArticleSIA Flashback – Racing in the Streets, Midwest Style
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, is today know to auto enthusiasts as the home of Road America. Yet as Frank Bruno related in SIA #81, June 1984, before the construction of the track, Elkhart Lake hosted...
View ArticleSIA Flashback – Racing’s Back in the Bahamas
With news that the Bahamas Speed Week is being revived later this year, it’s just a little bit appropriate that we run David Brownell’s account on the first such Bahamas Speed Week revival, from SIA...
View ArticleFrom the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – Joe Grippo explores the Simeone
Frequent Hemmings Nation Flickr pool contributor Joe Grippo recently took in the Simeone Foundation Auto Museum‘s American MegaMotorRacers Demo Day, where the good doctor not only gave a seminar on...
View ArticleBarn-find Cunningham to highlight trio of C-3s at Fairfield
1952 Barn Find Cunningham C-3 Coupe #5209, from the collection of the late Harry H. Sefried II. All images courtesy Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance To celebrate one of Westport, Connecticut’s,...
View ArticleSeptember in Des Moines
Countless Iowans work in agriculture, but not many of them had the kind of journey through life that Carl Weeks enjoyed. He was born in 1876, went from the family hog farm to pharmacy school, and...
View ArticleWhat’s the barn find of the year for 2011?
An unrestored, 9,800-mile 1931 V-16 Cadillac leads a row of barn-find cars at the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance I think we can all agree, this is the year the unrestored car came into its own....
View ArticleFour-Links – Porsche posters, Cunningham history, Japanese OK logo explained,...
* Porsche produced plenty of posters commemorating its motorsports efforts over the years, and Flickr user UDPride has posted quite a few of them for your perusal. (via) * If you haven’t been...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Cunningham C-3
Though it doesn’t share a finely sculpted Vignale body with its production successors, what this 1952 Cunningham C-3 for sale on Hemmings.com lacks in Italian lines it makes up for with its status as...
View ArticleCunninghams to convene in Connecticut
Photo courtesy Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance. Now that every C-3 street car built by Briggs Cunningham’s famed sports car production effort of the 1950s has been located, it’s time for a family...
View ArticleOpen Diff – Which set of cars would you travel the world to visit?
Toyota 2000GT. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. After reading about Brendan Edgerton’s quest to visit every remaining Tucker 48 automobile last week, we started to wonder what other...
View ArticlePetersen Automotive Museum selling a third of its collection to fund new focus
The Petersen Automotive Museum. When businessman and car collector Peter Mullin recently took the reins of the Petersen Automotive Museum, many saw a sea change in that museum’s direction on the...
View ArticlePetersen Museum’s unrestored Cunningham sells for $407,000
1952 Cunningham C-3 Coupe. Photos courtesy of Auctions America. With much of the attention at last weekend’s Auctions America sale in California focused on the 100-plus cars at the center of the...
View ArticleThe Cunningham C-3, as envisioned by Virgil Exner
Okay, okay, one more Virgil Exner-related post, then we’re done for now. Exactly how well Exner knew Briggs Cunningham, we can only guess. Though we never see the two mentioned together otherwise,...
View ArticleThe Revs Institute bringing three one-off Cunninghams to Pebble Beach
Publicity photo of the sole Cunningham C-1, taken in Palm Beach in 1950. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. Briggs Cunningham wanted nothing more than a victory at Le Mans in an American-built car of...
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