(September 9, 2011) LONDON — The first 100 mph Rolls-Royce, a 1911 "Experimental Speed Car" known as 1701, will lead a cavalcade of 17 historic Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts from the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, on Sunday, Sept. 11.

The historic cars, dating from 1911 to 1922, will be supported by a new Rolls-Royce Ghost, hand built at the Home of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars at Goodwood, West Sussex.

(September 2, 2011) The Great Race will return for 2012 after its successful relaunch earlier this year with an all new route around the Great Lakes that will take participants north of the border into Canada.

Race promoter Corky Coker announced this week that the Great Race will next run June 23, starting in Traverse City, Mich. From there, it will run north along Lake Michigan to the Upper Peninsula, cross into Canada at Sault Ste. Marie (where locks join lakes Superior and Huron), then travel east along the north shore of Lake Huron, south toward Lake Ontario and east toward the crossing back into the United States at Thousand Islands, then back west along the south shore of Lake Erie and toward its finish line in the Detroit area.

(August 31, 2011) A 1930 Stutz Model M took the Best in Show trophy at the Milwaukee Masterpiece this past weekend.

Part of a class celebrating the centennial of the Stutz marque at the Masterpiece, the 1930 Stutz Model M was one of two Stutzes entered by Alexander Kennedy Mitchell of Montgomery, Texas, and arrived in Milwaukee directly from the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

(August 21, 2011) We reported a few weeks ago on an effort to create the biggest parade of Cadillacs in the world. And the tiny town of Barton, Vt., got the job done on Aug. 17.

A minimum of 103 cars driving single file from the high school to the county fairgrounds was needed for the record. The official count was 298 Cadillac vehicles giving them the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Cadillac parade.

(August 17, 2011) We ran across a small collection of pictures of Hollywood stars and their cars, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s. We found it interesting to see what the super rich from the depression era drove.

(August 9, 2011) Joe Conlon's 1953 Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupe captured Best in Show at the sixth annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show this past weekend at the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.

(August 1, 2011) Among the $7.6 million in sales that RM totaled in its auction over the weekend at St. John’s in Plymouth, Mich., all eyes turned to the most visible of the lots — the Plexiglas-bodied Pontiac built for the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940, which sold for $308,000, including the 10 percent buyer’s premium, and Al Jolson's 1932 Packard Twin Six custom convertible sedan, which sold for $1.1 million.

(July 29, 2011) Search for information on the 1933-1934 Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair and you will find screen after screen of information.

But search for one of the most intriguing aspects of the fair — at least from an auto lover's standpoint — and you basically come up empty handed.

(July 20, 2011) One of the most interesting and intriguing pages from automotive history concerns the Franklin Automobile Company, which flourished in the first three decades of the 20th Century manufacturing an assortment of luxury cars.