American Racing Equipment ‘s magazine ad for its new pizza-cutter 4 x 15 magnesium frontrunner. Here at Hemmings, we’re nothing if not steeped in history. Comes along with the territory, right? Becau...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Replicating long-lost cars is difficult; replicating Ed Roth’s Mysterion is, perhaps, a fool’s errand. Aside from Roth’s eyeball-it measurements, his c...
This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
(Not the actual dune buggy). Image courtesy Stomper4x4. Honestly, the worst thing about Matt McLaughlin’s comment on the recent Meyers Manx SR2 Hemmings Find of the Day, in which he details his first...
Chevrolet 327-powered 1979 Manta Mirage for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Approximately 5,000 Miles. 4 Speed Manual Transmission. Street Legal. Motor is a Chevy 327 CI Modified...
Bewinged 1977 Kelmark for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: One of a kind, handcrafted by a 7-time midget / sprint car champion / hall of famer. To others it is known as the ‘Wonde...
Fiberfab Jamaican-bodied 1960 MG A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Probably late 1960’s body mounted on a 1960 MGA chassis & running gear. Has original MGA title and 1960 lic...
Buick-engined 2011 Diva roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: one of 37 expensive kits produced,, this is the best example of a finished vehicle, priced similar to a un-fi...
Photos courtesy Guernsey’s. “I got a second once,” Sam Goins recalled of his five years campaigning a 1964 Cheetah in sports car races up and down the eastern half of the country. “Every other race I...
The story of Richard Bosley of Mentor, Ohio, typically gets doled out in drips and drops in stories about his two hand-built cars, the Mark I and the Interstate. While it’s no biography, the booklet ...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. In the course of researching independent fiberglass body builders of the Fifties and early Sixties, Geoff Hacker has met several people who were directly involved with t...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Apparently, when your daddy’s the local dealer for unusual cars like the Israeli Sabra, you can afford to be choosy regarding which cars daddy gets to gift you. Or, at least,...
Images are courtesy Groupe Renault. This is a car that, in 25 years’ time, American enthusiasts will be lining up to import. It’s the 2018 Alpine A110, and while it shares its name and lines with the...
Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...
1968 Molzon Corvair. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1963, GM designer William “Bill” Molzon set out to build a car of his own, with some rather ambitious goals: It would accelerate faster than ...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
Ogle SX1000. Photos courtesy the author. So much has been written and said about the Mini in the past decades, you would think there was nothing new to add. But that the greatest small car in the wor...
Images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Famed auto design instructor Strother MacMinn might not have directly built any of the Le Mans coupes he intended to compete at the race of the same name, but he left be...
This one-of-a-kind 1990 special construction automobile began life as a Riley “Trimuter” three-wheeler before being converted to four wheels by Mike Fennel for use in the 1990 film Total Recall. The ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Holy rear camber, Batman! Remember the Manic GT ? You know, that rear-engined, Renault-powered, fiberglass bodi...
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and ...
Review by John L. Jacobus. This is a book about an Ed Roth fanatic, an amateur hot rodder and gearhead, namely Jeffrey A. Jones of Bakersfield, California, who created a clone of Ed Roth’s famous Mys...
Dean Batchelor’s completely handbuilt 1956 Silver Bomb for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Silver Bomb represents one of the first American Special creations with proven succ...
1964 AC Cobra (top); 1965 Griffith Series 200 (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an ...