Photo by Robert Morris, III. Way out in Buck Owens country, one of the most important historic racing events of the year has reached its 25th anniversary. And, just like any living drag racer who hur...
The Navarro roadster. Photo courtesy of The Race of Gentlemen. If the East Coast progenitor of The Race of Gentlemen is any indication, the opportunity to follow in the tire tracks of history by raci...
Don’t call it a rat rod! When a car guy or gal hears that term they think of something like the cars from Mad Max: Fury Road. A patina’d body is akin to the Japanese philosophy of sabi —the beauty th...
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve concei...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...
Restoring his 1957 Pontiac Safari for the road probably would have gotten it more use at cruise-ins and other old car gatherings, but Alan Freed had it restored as it was built – as a Hy-Rail, intend...
One has to wonder how so many carmakers get away with appropriating reusing existing names in the automotive pantheon. By dint of their size and access to lawyers, probably. As we ponder that, the Hi...
Jason Wilson on set. Photos courtesy The Discovery Channel. Following the airing of Harley and the Davidsons, The Discovery Channel is debuting a new motorcycle-build show entitled Sacred Steel Bikes...
Jason Wilson on set. Photos courtesy The Discovery Channel. Following the airing of Harley and the Davidsons, The Discovery Channel is debuting a new motorcycle-build show entitled Sacred Steel Bikes...
This 1927 Ford roadster came about because of a free, splash-oiled 216 Chevy. “Waste not, want not” sounds like it probably came from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, but it could very we...
By William Hall. Photos by author. Anyone who has attended The Symco Shakedown in the past seven years can tell you that it is more than a car show- it’s a complete immersion into American hot-rod cu...
Photos courtesy Gary Bricken. Sure, Ford’s Model A – like the Model T before it – assumed many different roles, whether it be racer, fire truck, or killer hot rod roadster. But even dedicated Model A...
Don’t let its black paint and full fenders fool you–this Ford Model T Runabout is far from stock. Photos by the author. Henry Ford advertised his Model T as “The Universal Car,” with the implication ...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The new-for-1947 Studebakers designed under Virgil Exner’s watch might have had some of the most modern styling of any American car up to that point, but one of Exner’...
1951 Ford Country Squire station wagon. From the seller’s description: This is a beatiful hawthorn green woody wagon. The wood inside and outside are perfect and was done by the world renowned Nick A...
Our recent story on the Futurliner had me looking through my file of saved photos and bookmarks for images to illustrate it, and while I couldn’t use the above rendering by James DonVito, it did get ...
The Hot August Nights Cup winner, Billy and Debbie Thomas’s 1939 Oldsmobile Model 60 convertible. Photos by Marcello Rostagni, courtesy Hot August Nights. Starting from a one-owner 1939 Oldsmobile Mo...
Photos by clemsonc. Sometimes things just stick in the back of your brain like little morsels of meat after a good porkchop dinner. You could floss it out, but it’s also occasionally rewarding to wor...
1947 Oldsmobile Model 66 four-door station wagon custom for sale. From the seller’s description: This rare, highly desirable, “Woody”, is one of a kind – sporting classic looks and tons of power. The...
1963 Chevrolet Impala, Owner Lee Cordova of Alcalde, New Mexico, 1998. Photo by Jack Parsons, courtesy New Mexico Digital Collections. In the mid-Eighties, MTV descended on the northern New Mexico ci...
Hot August Nights in downtown Reno, 2014. Photo by Marcello Rostagni, courtesy Hot August Nights. Since 1986, Hot August Nights (HAN) has been drawing hot rod and custom car fans from around the glob...
1933 Ford Model 40 three-window coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Take a good look at this beautiful, extremely solid and rare “Henry Steel 3 Window Coupe” in the final s...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...
Some people fill their garages with old cars to restore. Joel Baker fills his with 20-foot-tall fiberglass muffler men of multiple configurations, many of which he’s documented as part of his America...