The Mazda 700 Prototype, shown at the 8th Tokyo Motor Show in 1961, marked one of Mazda’s first steps into passenger car development. It...

The Renault Project 114 prototype, also called the “Bagatelle” prototype, was designed in 1961 by Michel Beligond. It was envisioned as a...

The 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II LWB owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor was a strikingly modified luxury car, customized by the legendary George...

The Opel Kapitän P2 (1959–1963) marked a new era in Opel’s design, with a fresh grille, sharper body lines, and an angular roof profile,...

The Subaru 450 Sports was a compact rear-engined sports car prototype presented by Subaru at the 8th Tokyo Motor Show in 1961. It was...

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was a trailblazer in the world of custom car design and a key figure in Southern...

The VW-Porsche Escher Kleinbahn was a series of small trains produced from 1954 to 1971 for use in parks and botanical gardens. These...

The Tatra 603 was a luxury car produced by Czechoslovakian automaker Tatra from 1956 to 1975. It was the third model in the Tatra 600...

One of the most beautiful English cars in the fifties was the Alvis TD21, a four-seater sedan with a sleek, two-door body. Initially...

In 1937 the Maserati brothers sold their company to industrialist Adolfo Orsi. Not long after the war ended, they decided their real...

One of several gas-turbine-powered cars Rover and BRM worked on in the late 50s and early 60s, the T4 was based on a Rover P6 prototype....

Born in Turin, Italy, in the last year of World War I, Virgilio Conrero served as a mechanic in the Regia Aeronautica during the next...