The $5,000 Challenge, Whippet good edition
The beauty of the old car hobby is this: There’s something to interest just about everyone, across a wide variety of price points. Most editions of the $5,000 Challenge have focused on automobiles fr...
The beauty of the old car hobby is this: There’s something to interest just about everyone, across a wide variety of price points. Most editions of the $5,000 Challenge have focused on automobiles fr...
A couple of gentlemen from Italy have taken a first generation Smart Fortwo and installed a 1.9 L TDI inline-four and transmission from a Volkswagen Golf. The engine produces 150 horsepower which get...
Photos by Mark McCourt. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the November 2016 edition of Hemmings Motor News. Walter P. Chrysler introduced Plymouth to his new c...
Last week Ken Block unveiled his Hoonicorn V2 with its new 1,400 horsepower twin-turbo V8. The reason the Hoonicorn needed to be upgraded with two turbos and methanol was for a new video that dealt w...
Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Don Fezell didn’t build his collection for the fame of it. He didn’t go hog the spotlight at televised collector car auctions. He didn’t build a personal museum for the...
Born in 1979, the M1 Procar Championship pit the world's top drivers, from multiple series, championships, and disciplines, against each other as a support series for the Formula One Grand Prix. Whil...
Date: May 1972 Location: Luanda, Angola Source: Manuel Resende Ferreira via Jay Nel on Facebook. From Manuel: “ I fondly remember those races. In later years Luanda had one of the best racing tracks ...
Refurbished 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I have passionately gone through the entire car and spared no detail. It’s ready to be a daily driver, a ...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. All that free shipping’s gotta take its toll somewhere. For the East Coast Timing Association, the expansion of online retail giant Amazon’s shipping cap...
From Porsche to Lotus to Chevrolet, the exhibit promises something for fans of all sports cars. Photo by John Lacko, courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Blame it on a combination of zeitgeist and disposable...
A Peugeot 403 convertible, similar to the one driven by TV detective Frank Columbo (which was a faded gray). Photos by Nick Kurczewski. What does a Columbo-style battered Peugeot 403 convertible and ...
Brilliance ist am Crashtest gescheitert, Qoros bislang nicht aus dem Quark gekommen und Borgward traut das Comeback so recht auch keiner zu – im Ausland haben sich die chinesischen Autohersteller bis...
Craig Gibson shared with us a recent video of his LSxSorento smoking the tires at Fatman’s Invasion burnout competition. The mid-sized SUV really impressed everyone there until a bearing cap went and...
This 1960 Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite has had several upgrades and many different engines since it rolled out of the factory. The original 948 cc inline-four was replaced with a 1275 cc inline-four...
Deep in the heart of Russia, Vladislav Shkurko has been hard at work, not only reassembling a rather unique Toyota Mark II, but also adding some incredible touches of his own. In blending classic Jap...
Paul Anagnos’ Fox Body Mustang was built to drag race. Inside the cabin is a 10-point roll cage and it rides on a complete drag racing suspension. But the most interesting part (to us) is what’s powe...
The 9th generation Honda Civic Si was redesigned to be “energetic, sleek, and aerodynamic,” with a new exterior design, a larger engine, and more than a dozen customization options. Honda injected sp...
DER NEUE SEAT LEON Er hat buchstäblich einen Löwenanteil am aktuellen Erfolgskurs von Seat. Denn hätte sich der Seal Leon in den letzten Jahren nicht so gut verkauft, hätte sich die spanische VW-Toch...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author. It’s impossible to understate the importance of the compact, front wheel-drive K cars to the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1980s, as the aut...
Date: circa 1950s Location: 6101 Martin Luther King Drive, Wellston, Missouri Source: The Old Motor What do you see here?
Erwartungshaltung Hatte man in den vergangenen Wochen die (deutschsprachige) Berichterstattung über den neuen Mercedes E-Klasse Kombi verfolgt, dann konnte man durchaus vom Gefühl beschlichen werden:...
Kombinationskraftwagen Nein, die Geschichte des Kombinationskraftwagen ist noch nicht so alt wie das Automobil selber. Aber wahrscheinlich wurden sie in den USA erfunden, man darf davon ausgehen, das...
1940 Buick Roadmaster Touring Sedan for sale. From the seller’s description: This long wheelbase formal sedan is powered by a 320 cubic-inch inline eight-cylinder engine capable of producing over 140...
Inside the warehouse during an open house. Photos courtesy the Davis family, unless otherwise noted. The massive battleship grey warehouse complex on the north side of Cornelius, Oregon covers severa...
The 2016 Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame induction class, with founder John Scotti (foreground). Photos courtesy Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Last year was the first time that the newly estab...