Photo by Bri ham. History doesn’t happen in a vacuum (here on Earth, at least) – it’s a sometimes messy affair that involves plenty of people connected to individual events, some of them directly but...
Plenty of sellers will describe their cars as original and then list off all the items they’ve modified or restored. While there’s no shame in maintaining a car over the decades, exaggerating the ori...
Still image from video below. This is not one of those Driver’s Ed. shock films that most of us grew up with-no real accident scenes, no blood. Instead, this is simply a defensive driving lesson rega...
Gary Gabelich. Still from Break the Record video. Hot rods, jet dragsters, go-karts, drag boats, stadium trucks, motorcycles – Gary Gabelich seemed never to have met a form of motorsport he didn’t li...
Jim and Chester’s posted this LA bank parking lot photo recently, and in the search for more info, we found it among a group of photos of the same bank – the Cathay Bank at 777 North Broadway – on th...
While the Ford Escort did an admirable job in rallying in the late Sixties, the company still found itself outclassed in the Monte Carlo by the likes of Porsche and Renault with its Alpine, so to com...
Pair of Singapore photos today from the Flickr stream of Fotorus, who visited the island city-state in April of 1972. Above, we see Collyer Quay, which is hardly recognizable today, and below we see ...
Upon being handed the keys to a brand-new performance car back in the late ’60s, what’s the first thing you’d have done? Lay a long strip of rubber all the way to your buddy’s house? Go straight to t...
Go on, admit it. If you were coming of age as an automobile enthusiast during the 1970s, and were leaving sweaty fingerprints on the road-test monthlies within days after they were printed, you almos...
It’s not perfect, but this 1979 International Scout II Rallye for sale on Hemmings.com is at least rust free and has a level of patina that some would consider authentic – from the cracked Rallye str...
Reader Gary Rynsburger sent us a link to the 1966 Chevrolet introduction video this week specifically for the camper truck chase scene toward the end, but we figured the entire thing would be worth w...
Originally designed as an upscale version of Ford’s Mustang, the Mercury Cougar would take an entirely different direction for the 1974 model year, growing in size and plushness to become a personal ...
To some, the collector car hobby is about driving a classic car, a fairly broad term that encompasses a wide variety of vehicles and manufacturers. To others, the hobby is about preserving or restori...
Volvo’s two-door sport wagon, the 1800ES, was the final variation of its 1800 model line. Launched in 1972 and built for just two model years, the 1800ES, designed by Jan Wilsgaard, blends the stunni...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
Reader Mark Beeler sent us this photo (via our Facebook page ) that his father took, “ most likely along the Colorado front range somewhere .” There’s not much to go on as far as a specific location,...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. The last time we talked, I set priorities for the mechanical work on a 1974 Buick Apollo, the same year and model of my first car. For those novices to restoration, I h...
Czech manufacturer Tatra has always specialized in building innovative, if not eccentric, vehicles. Though never officially offered for sale on these shores, the Tatra T613 is a perfect case in point...
While mid-seventies pickups from GM, Ford and Chevrolet are plentiful, survivors from Dodge are less so. Perhaps fewer civilians shopped for Dodge pickups, or perhaps the bulk of production went to t...
The Dude’s 1973 Gran Torino. Photo via IMCDB.org. While it’s not considered much of a car movie, the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski is one of only a handful of films to inspire fes...
Kinda hard to find a flaw in this 1978 Ford Granada Ghia for sale on Hemmings.com: From the photos it all appears clean and straight, with no evidence of rust, fading, or wear, and the description te...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
Ninety-nine percent of the cars and trucks that appear as Hemmings Finds of the Day are probably ninety-nine percent more practical than the Rain for Rent Top Fuel dragster from the mid- to late Seve...
Sure, any new RV is likely capable enough of making a cross-country trip this summer without any issues. But apparently so can this 1972 Ford Econoline E200 Sportsmobile for sale on Hemmings.com, whi...