Stuff: 2010 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering

[svgallery name=”2010_Quail_hirez”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. – Now in its eighth year, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, is held on the golf course holes that lies between the Santa Lucia mountains at the Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel Valley. If may not be as well known as the Monterey historic […]

Stuff: 2010 Pebble Beach Concours D’Élégance

[svgallery name=”2010_Pebble_Concours_hirez”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.–If interest in the automobile is waning, don’t tell any of thousands of enthusiasts who made their way out to the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance this year. Between the new, the old, the classic, the survivors, and the just plain odd cars on display […]

The Crank: Why I hate (some) Old Fart cars

By John LeBlanc MONTEREY, Calif. – Cars as art? No problem. I can appreciate the past as rolling sculpture as well as anyone else. I never really understood the fascination with driving old cars, though, at least for the cars I’ve owned or driven in the past. They’ve always been more fragile, unreliable, slower, or […]

UPDATED/B-ROLL: “Fastest road-going Porsche of all time” revealed

By John LeBlanc Think about it: Of all the legendary road cars Germany’s preeminent sports car maker has already produced, that headline is a strong statement. But the new $297,000  911 GT2 RS that goes on sale in Canada in October—what will presumably be the highest-performing 997 until the next generation starts arriving in the […]

Top 10: Future Collectibles

[svgallery name=”Top_10_Future_Collectibles”] By John LeBlanc A new vehicle — no matter how rare, technically exotic, historically significant, or blindingly quick — is an investment. In the short term at least. Who would have thought, however, back in 1953 that those first 300 hand-made polo white six-cylinder Chevrolet Corvettes would become one of the most collectible […]

« go back — keep looking »