Category: Legendary Rides

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HoonArt Attends The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance: The Living Car Museum of Your Dreams

Despite being threatened by rain this year, the 21st annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance went off without a hitch. Fog and overcast conditions had been recurrent throughout the weekend, so

Valentino Balboni driving a Lamborghini Miura on Amelia Island

It’s Not Every Day That You See an Icon Driven by a Legend

Over the weekend, I attended the Amelia Island Cars & Coffee and their 21st annual Concours d’Elegance. While there on Saturday, my wife and I were waiting to be shuttled to our parking area, when a Lamborghini Miura drove by a few times. On one pass, I captured some photographs of it approaching on the straight and rounding the corner. Later that night, looking through the raw files, the driver’s head and face, for some reason, looked very familiar… When I zoomed the image up to full size, I recognized him immediately; the retired legendary Lamborghini chief test driver, Valentino Balboni. Can someone help me get my jaw up off the floor?

A History of Seinfeld’s Porsches Selling at Amelia

If you are a fan of Porsche, and you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last month, it’s unlikely that you haven’t heard about the upcoming Seinfeld collection grouping

Setting 3 Records on 3 Wheels in 1 Wonderfully Miserable Trip from LA to NY

[This is without a doubt the best thing I have read all week, so I decided to re-share it here. Zach Bowman recounts in immersive and poetic detail how he

Florida Bug Jam 2015

Florida Bug Jam 2015: Bug Wars

Many of you can probably remember when Volkswagen was known more for making small, cheap, ubiquitous cars with character, known as the Beetle, than they were for a diesel emissions

Rusty Slammington Reborn

Rusty Slammington – Today at SEMA, one day before the show begins, Mike Burroughs revealed his famed creation. After four years behind closed doors and two years under the knife,

Why the Miura Can Never Be Topped

“It’s such a tragedy when someone owns such a car and it never leaves the garage. It’s like never making love to your wife.” [Alex Roy, of Road & Track,

Three quarter front view of Chevy Corvair

Craigslist: 1961 Rat Rod Death Trap

When I heard that an acquaintance of mine was considering getting rid of his Corvair, as much as I hope he ends up keeping it, I couldn’t help but share this

Turbo BMW V8 & Skyline GT-R Drivetrain: 750 HP Volvo Amazon

[Holy cow, look what B.A.T. found! This thing is insane! Probably one of the most interesting street-legal builds that I’ve seen in a while. – Bryce Womeldurf] This Volvo Amazon

Catching Up with the E46 M3 GTR

As far as BMWs go, this is about as rare as it gets. What you’re looking at here (and what I’m about to cover in a thick layer of Roundel-shaped