Siata-powered 1957 Peter Dawson Ferret for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The ferret was raced in the late ’50s and early ’60s by the owner and builder Peter Dawson. This car is...
If there’s one constant in car culture, it’s the garage wall poster. We’ve all got at least one and if we’re being honest, most of us really don’t have much empty square-inchage left on any one wall ...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. All other photos courtesy Geoff Hacker and Gary Cerveny. When Gary Cerveny had the chance to sift through the ashes after the Woolsey fire swept through parts of Malibu in Nove...
So, you’ve crashed your brand-new Austin-Healey. Ugh. Insurance? Shrug. How about, instead, you – and the local panelbeaters – look at it as an opportunity to improve on the work of Donald Healey and...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For many a sports and racing car builder in the Fifties, Frank Kurtis’ “off-the-shelf” chassis had little equal. It provided good handling, room for bigger engines, and ...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For many a sports and racing car builder in the Fifties, Frank Kurtis’ “off-the-shelf” chassis had little equal. It provided good handling, room for bigger engines, and ...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. Jerry Gardner — The Man Jerome B. “Jerry” Gardner was born April 9, 1934, in Saugerties, New York. He was the son of the late Edward and Anna Brandow Gardner. A veteran of the ...
Over the holidays, it seems some thieves in Moscow decided to treat themselves to a Christmas present: Stalin’s ZiS-115 armored limousine. Local media say the vehicle belonged to the head of security...
Rummage through a dusty box of memories printed on Kodak paper and you’re bound to remember just about everything your eyes see. Except that in the case of these pictures, uncovered during a recent t...
1952 Kaiser Manhattan. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. We live in a golden age of crate engine options. From a catalog, one can order Hemis, LSes, even electric motors. And who knows, maybe we could ...
Visitors to the National Auto & Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana, can walk right up to the Mustang and give it close inspection. Photo credit: Richard Lentinello If there was any engineer who had an o...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
Why the guy in charge of Dodge and SRT styling doesn’t like those yellow splitter guards you see on Hellcats, our own Richard Lentinello is signing his latest book at the Hershey Fall Meet, and a ful...
The Historic Vehicle Association paid tribute to Jesse Valadez II, the caretaker of his father’s Gypsy Rose lowrider, who died this past week. Although Jesse was soft spoken and humble, he was always...
The views from atop Corkscrew Hill are simply amazing. Here the Group 2A machines, 1955-’61 Sports Cars, make a warm-up lap behind the pace car. Photos by David Conwill. “Pebble Beach,” as Monterey C...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
John Athan’s 1929 Ford roadster atop a 1932 Ford frame is historical not only for its appearance along side Elvis Presley in the 1957 film Loving You (The King’s first starring role), but because it ...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
From the seller’s description: 1927 Ford Model T In a showroom with original, correct, straight standing, never waiver from the norm typical Model T or Model A there’s a statement to be heard from on...
Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...
Ford and Roush Performance built this custom Mustang GT, inspired by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Bud Anderson, a World War II triple ace pilot, and the P-51 Mustang fighter planes he flew in combat nick...
The newest addition to the Simeone collection, a 1938 Avions Voisin C28 Cabriolet. Photo courtesy of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Josh Sweeney and RM Sotheby’s. The Classic Car Trust rec...
Chris Mazzilli’s 1983 Corvette at the reveal. At the right of the frame are Rick Darling, former Corvette ride and handling engineer, and Dave McLellan, former Corvette chief engineer. Photos by Chri...
Lo-Res Car Sculpture by Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. Photos courtesy Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. “Modern cars all look alike,” is a complaint we often hear from readers, but what if a pair of desi...