01Goodnight Nova, a Little Horsepower Before Bed
Alexander DeRosa gives the bedtime story a Chevrolet Nova, a family garage and a welcome dose of horsepower.
The latest reads
Cars, people and stories.
A closer look at the collector world.
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02SEMA 2026: Common Sense Has Left the Convention Center
A Corvette-powered food truck, a hot-rodded Rolls-Royce and a Chevelle that refuses to age. Las Vegas has plenty to answer for.
03The First Jaguar: William Lyons and the £395 Gamble
Before William Lyons built Jaguars, he built motorcycle sidecars. That sounds like the opening line to a joke, considering the same man would later give us the XK120, the D-Type, the E-Type, and the XJ6. Yet in 1922, Lyons was working from a modest building in Blackpool, constructing streamlined metal bodies that attached to motorcycles. Even then, his eye for proportion was obvious.
04The Most Important Part of a Classic Car May Be the Folder
Buying or selling a collector car? Proper paperwork protects the transaction, tests the claims and keeps the history from disappearing.
05Five Christmas Gifts for Car Lovers Who Already Own Too Much Stuff
Useful presents for the enthusiast who calls a garage full of parts a collection and a second garage a sensible investment.
06A Thousand Horses and a Very Expensive Relationship With Your Right Foot
Classic Recreations’ carbon-fiber GT500CR gives the 1967 Shelby silhouette a thoroughly modern set of complications.
Reader’s CarCars from the people
Cars from the people
who drive them.
One owner, one car, and the details that make it worth knowing. Browse the archive →
Reader Feature
1997 Buick Riviera: The Quiet Appeal of a Supercharged Coupe
A Cars-Global archive submission brings a sculpted Buick coupe—and its wonderfully specific idea of passenger comfort—back into view.
Read the story →From Barnaby’s
files.
The finds, the collections, the conversations. Films and features from the original Motorcar Society.
The Barnaby Chronicles
Watch on YouTube ↗Bentley Find of a Lifetime
An original Motorcar Society film from Barnaby’s archive. A discovery worth another look.
Archive images and films preserved in the Motorcar Society collection.Browse the archive →
Dean Kirkland on PowerTube TVFrom the screen.
From the screen.
Into the story.
Dean’s take on the cars, colors and characters that shaped automotive history.
Latest Dean’s List story
The Apollo GT: Hollywood’s Forgotten Italian-American
There was a time when Hollywood understood cars. During the 1960s, a great movie car didn’t need a committee-approved backstory, computer-generated tire smoke, or an actor explaining why the machine mattered. The car rolled into frame, the engine fired, and you understood everything you needed to know.
Enter The Dean’s List →Meet the Motorcar Society
A lifetime
around cars.
Plenty to tell.
Motorcar Society is a collector-car journal covering automotive stories, history, collecting and the people behind the cars.
Barnaby Brokaw knows the cars. He knows the people. And he knows that the best part of a collection is often the story that comes with it.
Motorcar Society brings those stories together with films, photographs and a closer look at the collector car world. From a long-stored find to a car that gets driven every weekend, there’s a place for it here.
Have a story to share? Submit your car with your name and location, its year, make and model, your story, one to ten photographs and permission to review and publish the material. Publication is not guaranteed.
Contact the editors with a story suggestion, or explore advertising and partnerships.
Spend some time with Barnaby →The film & story archive
Nine selections from the collection.
The cars. The people.
The story behind them.
Automotive films, history and conversations with Dean Kirkland. Get to the part the brochure left out.
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