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 […]

Feature: Future Collectibles

[svgallery name=”Future_Collectibles”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc Considered the most prestigious event of its kind in the world, for the past 59 years, California’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been a showcase for the collector car world. Some of the collector cars that will be showing up at this year’s event in August are […]

Comparo: Five frugal sports cars

Story and photos by John LeBlanc If you think about it, the first sports cars – the iconic post-World War II cars from MG, Triumph or Alfa Romeo, powered by small displacement four-cylinder engines – were relatively green for their time. Then a certain chicken farmer named Carroll Shelby from Texas came along and stuffed […]