Picture this: a "Utility Yellow" Chevy 3500 stake-bed truck, formerly owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Imagine the neglect and rust you'd expect to find under and ...
When we found our feature car this week – a ’55 Chevy wagon more-door, we got to wondering; “How many people have taken on a project like this?” And it didn’t take us long to find our own Tim Strange...
We do love a good mystery. And when it’s backed up by a neat story, nay, legend, count us in, kid. And so it is with the legend of a certain ’56 Chevy post coupe that ran the San Francisco Bay area b...
If you follow along with Muscle Machines online, you know that we rarely ever get tired of seeing great, vintage snapshots of altered muscle. Whether it’s insane custom paint, purpose-built drag cars...
While we’re all cooped-up at home practicing the gearhead version of social distancing (read: texting each other drag pics behind closed garage doors), we know that, at some point, you’ll find yourse...
If you get our weekly Muscle Machines newsletter, you’ll notice that, this week, we’ve been inspired by early hotrodding. After all, it’s fair to say that the post-war hotrodders set the table for th...
One of our favorite micro-movements within the first generation of the Muscle Car era is the Name thing. You’ve seen great old photos of this trend: some killer Mopar wing car or Camaro or Mustang or...
When we talk about the “glory days” of drag racing, we’re not talking about the cars, alone. Sure, the cars are at the center of our affections, but there was also the dragstrip exhibition scene. Y’k...
Ah, muscle cars…we all love them, but let’s face it–factory go-fast wasn’t a sudden, overnight thing, right? We’re talking about The Big Three here, folks: Nothing happens as quickly as we want it to...
Much as we love talking about the “good ‘ol days” of drag racing and performance, we’d be missing out on a whole new, glorious world if we didn’t invite the kids to the benchracing session. For every...
To quote Bobby DeNiro’s Al Capone in “The Untouchables;” “What is that which gives me joy?” A fresh set of slicks, thank you very much. Nothing like the aroma of a new set of tires, amiright? But, as...
Sehr flach, sehr schnell Es ist friedlich in Traben-Trarbach. Der große Fluss mäandert träge an historischen Mauern vorbei. Vollverglaste Binnenschiffe entlassen im Stundentakt rüstige Senioren auf d...
I'm not entirely sure if I've ever actually seen a Chevy Monza on the road. Sold from 1975 to 1980, it's not entirely surprising, considering it was somewhat of an economy car car built some 45 years...
What’s the one thing that unites all gearheads? The one pilgrimage that we all dream about? That one singular experience that separates us from mere mortals…or, at least, the smarter guy on the block...
We often find ourselves saying, around here, “We don’t live on vintage muscle, alone.” Sure, you can substitute any strain of car culture for “vintage muscle,” but the point is, as much as we love ou...
The Corvette. I’m gonna switch from the “royal we” that I usually use to convey the general opinion and position of Hemmings to the “lowly subject me” for a minute. Because I’m gonna use my own thoug...
Every once in awhile, we come across an old snapshot that gives us pause. Makes us stop everything else and just stare. Put down the other three screens and really concentrate on all the wee details....
When is too much, too much? When it comes to vintage drag racing 8mm filmstrips, we say, “NEVER.” It’s never too much. Sure, the weird soundtracks that are usually put to them when they’re transferre...
Do we have a treat for you, this week: a terrible movie! Look, there’s an art to a bad movie. It takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to actually endure it from one end to the other, but li...
1947 Hudson Super Six convertible; image courtesy of Raucher Brothers Auctioneers. Thom Bixby may not have been a well-known personality in the general collector car hobby, but within Hudson circles ...
We love Top 10 lists. Even Forgotten 9 lists. Which brings us to this week’s video: are these the nine most-f0rgotten muscle cars? We’ll admit, there’s at least one oddball in there that we may not e...
If you’re here, we don’t have to convince you that the first-gen Funny Car era was one of the coolest, if not craziest, in drag racing history. Social media is chock-full of great old photos and some...
One of our favorite features of the Muscle Machines weekly is this historic photo thing we’ve been doing for awhile now. And, by the number of responses, we think you all agree! Couldn’t be happier a...
This week’s newsletter theme is all about “back to basics.” We think it’s a good idea to dust this off every now and again. After all, it’s great to really push the limits of what we all consider “Mu...
If you’re a regular getter and reader of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter, you no doubt jumped in on (if not were entertained by) the discussion around the factory muscle that was heaped upon us...