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Barn-find Cunningham to highlight trio of C-3s at Fairfield
1952 Barn Find Cunningham C-3 Coupe #5209, from the collection of the late Harry H. Sefried II. All images courtesy Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance To celebrate one of Westport, Connecticut’s,...
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What’s the barn find of the year for 2011?
An unrestored, 9,800-mile 1931 V-16 Cadillac leads a row of barn-find cars at the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance I think we can all agree, this is the year the unrestored car came into its own....
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Ask a Hemmings Editor: What was the most expensive American car in 1954?
1953 Cunningham C-3. Photo by David Traver Adolphus John Schwartz of Philadelphia was recently drinking beer with his buddies and the topic of cars built in the years they were born came up. More...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Cunningham C-3
Though it doesn’t share a finely sculpted Vignale body with its production successors, what this 1952 Cunningham C-3 for sale on Hemmings.com lacks in Italian lines it makes up for with its status as...
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Tribute to invention: Elliott Museum on Hemmings TV
It’s rather hard to top a Cunningham C-3 convertible, just as it’s hard to top a collection of 55 Model As and a Springfield-built Rolls-Royce. But if any museum can perform such a feat, it’s the...
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Cunninghams to convene in Connecticut
Photo courtesy Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance. Now that every C-3 street car built by Briggs Cunningham’s famed sports car production effort of the 1950s has been located, it’s time for a family...
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Petersen Automotive Museum selling a third of its collection to fund new focus
The Petersen Automotive Museum. When businessman and car collector Peter Mullin recently took the reins of the Petersen Automotive Museum, many saw a sea change in that museum’s direction on the...
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Petersen Museum’s basket-case Cunningham sells for $407,000
1952 Cunningham C-3 Coupe. Photos courtesy of Auctions America. With much of the attention at last weekend’s Auctions America sale in California focused on the 100-plus cars at the center of the...
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Racing Heroes – Briggs Swift Cunningham II
Briggs Cunningham at Watkins Glen, 1952. All photos courtesy Revs Institute, used with permission. With a middle name of Swift, perhaps it was preordained that Briggs Cunningham would come to lead a...
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The Cunningham C-3, as envisioned by Virgil Exner
Okay, okay, one more Virgil Exner-related post, then we’re done for now. Exactly how well Exner knew Briggs Cunningham, we can only guess. Peter Grist, in his biography Virgil Exner: Visioneer, noted...
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First Vignale-bodied Cunningham C-3 to cross the block in Texas
The first Vignale-bodied Cunningham C-3. Phots by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Cost be damned, Briggs Swift Cunningham II was going to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with an automobile of his...
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Now restored, the Petersen Museum’s former 1952 Cunningham C-3 heads to auction
1952 Cunningham C-3, chassis 5208. Photos by Robin Adams. Courtesy RM Sotheby’s. A picture, it’s said, is worth a thousand words, but the image of an unassembled and unpainted Cunningham C-3 coupe,...
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1954 Cunningham C-3 Vignale Coupe takes Best in Show at 2016 Misselwood...
1954 Cunningham C-3 Vignale Coupe. Photos by author. Like the mythical Phoenix bird, the 1954 Cunningham C-3 Vignale Coupe currently owned by James W. Taylor of Gloversville, New York, has risen from...
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Studebaker National Museum proves there’s more than one definition of hybrid
Tom Cotter’s Cunningham C-3 coupe, featued in the upcoming exhibit, at the 2016 Grand Ascent hillclimb. Photo courtesy of Tom Cotter. Say the word “hybrid” in conversation, and most will envision a...
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