1972 Ford Maverick Grabber. Photos by Jeff Koch, unless otherwise noted. On April 17, 1969, Ford introduced a new compact two-door sedan with sleek fastback styling, designed to counter the sales thr...
Coker’s headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photos courtesy of Coker Group. Founded by Harold Coker in 1958, Coker Tire was a pioneer in supplying period-correct tires for the collector-car hobby...
Prewar Bugatti, original artwork by Wallace Wyss. Having had the unique experience of driving my Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing out of a burning building, I can add a little advice on protecting your c...
Photo by Craig Howell. It’s not quite a green flag, but the European Parliament has, for the first time, acknowledged the threat to European motorsports posed by the expanded scope of the Motor Insur...
From the seller’s description: “They’re only original once” 1953 Mercury Monterey , Unrestored, original, AACA HPOF Senior award. Very low original mileage; 255 cubic inch ‘flathead’ V-8 with three s...
The Jason Castriota-designed Chevrolet Corvette Mantide. Photos courtesy Aste Bolaffi. Nuccio Bertone received his dying wish: The company that carried his family name survived, at least in part, to ...
From the seller’s description: View the pictures of this outstanding example of a 1970 Chevrolet K20 4×4 ; in excellent condition. All steel, a real 70′ K20, previous frame off restoration, with an 8...
Photo courtesy Rod Hall Racing. Racing Baja in the Sixties took place at a far different pace than today’s races. One could get lost a dozen times driving used four-wheel-drive rigs and somehow still...
Aerial view of the Bondurant Racing School facility at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Image courtesy Google Maps. After celebrating its 50th anniversary in February 2018, the ...
Streamlined trains and divided highways, but oddly no airplanes, represented state-of-the-art transportation in 1941. If you’ve seen those blue “Eisenhower Interstate System” signs with the General-t...
The KiMo Theater in downtown Albuquerque on Route 66. Photo by Karen Blaha. Where Route 66 passes through downtown Albuquerque and takes the name Central Avenue, the neon signs of the tourist-laden r...
David Pearson at the 1969 Motor Trend 500. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Over his 27-year NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup career, David Pearson only ran 574 races, yet racked up an astound...
From the seller’s description: 1937 Ford coupe. Awesome old school hot rod. Super nice clean body. Custom interior and tons of old school speed equipment with the right upgrades, like hydraulic brake...
Photo courtesy Profiles in History. A long time ago, in the early days of the Internet, a misguided nerd wrote an article comparing the Millennium Falcon to a Chevrolet Nova. While the author made a ...
Curtis Wright Model 1 (left) and Airstream Silver Cloud (right). Photos courtesy Dal Smilie. Somehow it seems fitting that, though the earliest-known factory-built Airstream featured entirely wooden ...
Ron Hickman poses with the Lotus Elan. Photos courtesy National Motor Museum Trust. Though he retired in 1982, Ron Hickman never really stopped designing things. Over a three-decade career, his achie...
Image courtesy Google Street View. For decades, the former Phoenix Motor Company building in downtown Phoenix presented a blank face to the world. Windows and doors boarded up and stuccoed-over, it s...
Photos courtesy of FIM-ISDE.com and Sarah Kinrade The 2018 installment of the International Six Days Enduro begins in Vina del Mar, Chile, and will start this Monday. The event invites national teams...
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when drag racing was really, really cool. Drivers were gladiators, teams were small bands of nomads, motel parking lots were all-night parties, and the ...
1965 Ford GT40 roadster. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. After disappointing performances in 1964 and 1965, Ford’s GT40 coupes dominated the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1966-’69. The ...
1954 Packard convertible. Photos by Nancy Gates, courtesy AACA Museum. In days of yore, gigantic, lumbering beasts roamed the landscape, pausing only to feed their insatiable appetites, or (occasiona...
1957 Willys Pickup (top, image by Jim Donnelly); 1958 Chevrolet Apache 31 (bottom, image by Terry McGean). Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report betwee...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1966 ( Chrysler ) Imperial LeBaron Sedan in beautiful condition. This vehicle has only 7,979 miles and has always been garaged. It has the original black pain...
Still from AACA Library video of 1965 Glidden tour. With about half of the films in the AACA Library’s collection now digitized, the library’s staffers have organized a film series to not only showca...
An aerial view of the Utah Motorsports Campus site. Photo courtesy Utah Motorsports Campus. In August 2015, Tooele County, Utah, accepted a bid from the Mitime Investment and Development Group — a di...