Saleen Autosport (later, Saleen Automotive) began producing tuned Mustangs in 1984. By the end of the decade, the firm was building a variety of Mustangs, both normally aspirated and superchaged, as ...
Photo by Todd Ehlers. Preliminary figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week call for adding 300 million more gallons of ethanol to the nation’s fuel supply next year, ...
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...
Photo by Matt Litwin. Nobody couldn’t have predicted that the stratospheric success of the 1965 Mustang would lead to direct competition: Everybody suddenly wanted a part of the youth market that Lee...
Leo Beebe at Le Mans in 1966. All photos courtesy of Ford Motorsport. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings reader and contributor Frank Comstock, a friend of the late Leo Beebe. “Comin...
Dodge celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1964, and its gift to Dart buyers was a newly available 273-cu.in. V-8 that boosted the performance of the division’s compact-size offering. This 1964 Dodge D...
Part of the capacity crowd from last night’s cruise-in. Photos by Kurt Ernst, David Conwill and Terry McGean. To some, it’s the budding of trees and the blooming of flowers (often accompanied by the ...
Pontiac pitched its 1964 Catalina as the brand’s lowest-priced full-size offering, but despite the family-friendly sticker, the Catalina still came with standard features like electric wipers, dual s...
Photo by Michael Cote. A bill introduced in Congress this week promises to roll back current ethanol blending requirements and may even curtail the spread of E15 through the nation’s fuel supply shou...
So why be coy about the hot rodding potential of a car like this 1964 Plymouth Savoy for sale on Hemmings.com? It is a likely candidate for a Hemi or Max Wedge clone (as the seller points out), it’s ...
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In December 2012, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, closed its doors to the public after losing nearly $1.5 million in the pr...
Photography by author. Over the years, you’ve likely put a diligent effort into making your vintage vehicle look its best. If you’re sharing your pride and joy with someone via photos, keep in mind, ...
The 1969 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 is a great car to own and drive, yet values have typically trailed the ’69 Chevelle SS 396 and the Pontiac GTO over the years. This can be a good thing if you’re looking for...
A few of the American cars on display at the soon-to-be-opened Route 66 Car Museum. Photos courtesy of Springfield Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, unless otherwise noted. Like many collectors, Guy M...
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...
It’s shockingly easy for a once-major road to go forgotten, as we see from a Los Angeles Times article this week about California’s Ridge Route Road, supplanted by Highway 99 and later Interstate 5 a...
Image courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. The picture tells a thousand words. Dad grins knowingly as his India Ivory over Matador Red Bel Air Sport Sedan pulls the steep grade. His wife and daughter...
Shelby G.T. 350, serial number 6S163. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Before Ford’s San Jose plant transitioned its Mustang assembly line from the 1965 to 1966 model year, it supplied Shelby Americ...
Can-Am cars in the Corkscrew, 1973. Photo courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. How many times do you see two thunderous racing divisions both debut in the same season and, moreover, enjoy wild success...
For 1965, Pontiac’s Grand Prix arrived looking bigger and bolder, with its “venturi” shaped body riding on an expanded 121-inch wheelbase. The standard “premium gas” engine under the GP’s hood was th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As fans of American performance cars will tell you, the late 1960s might just represent the apogee of Ford’s Total Performance era, as v...
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no wa...
The first gauzy green signs of spring in the Northeast can turn a past-middle-aged car-magazine editor’s fancy to thoughts of affordable convertibles. Fox Mustang droptops were so prolifically produc...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. They’re considered some of the rarest Mustangs ever built, but more importantly they’re also the very first vehicles to arise out of Ford’s Special Vehicle Operations ...
Photos courtesy ChipFoose.com, Hooker Headers, SEMA. Chip Foose’s ubiquity in hot rodding and customizing is no mere fluke of reality television. Instead, the custom car designer’s more than 25 years...