Porsche 542: The Car Studebaker Paid For And Never Built Studebaker wrote Porsche a check for roughly half a million 1952 dollars and got nothing out of it. Porsche used that money to build the assembly hall in Zuffenhausen that still turns out 911s today. The dying American company paid for the German company’s factory. … Read more
BMW 507: The Most Beautiful Car BMW Ever Built Almost Killed the Company Walk into any decent auction in Monterey or Pebble Beach and one of these things will cross the block for two million dollars. Minimum. The Surtees car went for nearly five. People queue up for the privilege of bidding on something that … Read more
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing: Aviation on Wheels There is a photograph from 1954 that says it all. A Mercedes-Benz 300 SL with its doors open to the sky, parked in front of a DC-3 on an airstrip. The message was clear: this is not a conventional automobile. This is aviation on wheels. Seventy years later, … Read more
