As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
Image via IMCDB. Yeah, the scripts were repetitive, the violence cartoonish, and the continuity near-nonexistent. So what, we children of the Eighties tuned into The A-Team every week for one thing o...
The Iso Grifo A3/L prototype hammers at $1.6 million to set an auction record. Photos by Mike Maez unless otherwise noted; all photos copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Iso Grifo, like ...
Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro Have you ever lost something, bought a replacement, and then found the thing you lost soon thereafter? I can’t count how many times I’ve done that with car parts and suppli...
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1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Based upon the racing car of a similar name, the production Mercedes-Benz 300 SL debuted as a gullwing-door coupe in 1954. Three years lat...
2017 Nitro Revival at Barona Drag Strip. Photo by Pam Conrad, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2017, a new event honoring vintage dragsters and the racers who piloted them came to the Barona Dr...
Date: May 1974 Location: Washington, D.C. Source: Jim Pickerell photo for the Environmental Protection Agency, via Library of Congress What do you see here?
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Sir Stirling Moss at the 2015 Mille Miglia. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz. Consider this: In his active years as a driver, Sir Stirling Moss won 57-percent of the races he entered, across a variety o...
Older restoration 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Hurst/Olds for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Restored in 1987, the stock 455 was bored out to 462 cu. in. and was rebuilt with mostly ...
I wanted to meet “Big Daddy” Don Garlits when he raced Swamp Rat-I at Atco Dragway in 1962. But it wasn’t to be, and I had to wait 41 years for it to happen. Photo courtesy Garlits Museum of Drag Rac...
From the seller’s description: 1974 Jensen Interceptor III Luxury Grand Touring Coupe. Built in Birmingham, England. Very rare automobile; only 6408 built between 1966-1976, with just 1779 being Seri...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
I can remember commuting from Albany, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts, every Thanksgiving as a child and traveling the NYS Thruway and the Massachusetts Turnpike to get there. Being part of a...
From the seller’s description: Its come time to sell my 1974 Charger . Its Collector and Adult owned, Garage kept, Clean title, Well taken care of, Maintence up to date. It has a powerful 318 v8 that...
Photography by the author. Half a century of Hot Wheels. Can you believe it? Oh, metal toy cars existed long before Mattel’s eternal “blue brand” (so named for the color of its packaging), but Mattel...
In 1948, Land Rover debuted its first model at the Amsterdam Motor Show. Three prototypes graced the company’s stand, and one – described as a demonstrator model – resurfaced in a garden near its Sol...
When we realized we only had one headlight, Conder took it all in stride. This is the sketch on a piece of chipboard that he keeps piles of, deep inside Conder Custom, that finally solved the problem...
Modified 1990 BMW M3 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1995 E36 M3 S50 Motor (estimated 300 hp) 1995 E36 M3 5-Speed Transmission Polished & Ported Head Value Cover Painted Whit...
Raceway Park photos by Hemmings staff. In July 1965, the Napp family opened Raceway Park as a drag strip on the site of a former cattle ranch in central New Jersey. In the five-plus decades since, th...
A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum. Beloved by its fans, but criticized–perhaps unreasonably–by its detractors, the Chevrole...