1969 Pontiac GTO convertible (top); 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between...
Three young men wait for curb service at the Scotchman, 4960 Federal Blvd., one of the last ’50s style drive-ins. October 14, 1977 (Photo by Ernie Leyba/ The Denver Post ). During the Seventies, ther...
Lots of sweat, a little bit of blood, and buckets of tears went into the new look of Hemmings Muscle Machines. Click on the image for a video of the photo shoot. Hemmings Muscle Machines is starting ...
Seventies custom-car culture is being reinterpreted in some amazing ways… in Japan. Photos courtesy Sho Kogawa. Ah, the Japanese car scene. As in America, it runs deep and in a bunch of directions: J...
Preserved 1978 Ford Mustang II Cobra II for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is a meticulously clean, well preserved and well maintained car that is driven regularly to c...
The event was sponsored by 1945 Speed and Custom and this shop was open to browse through their current projects. Photos by author. As if we here at Hemmings Motor News don’t attend or organize enoug...
RPO 576 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I have known this car since 1960, it was purchased in Inwood Iowa from a company called Grotewold Motors by a k...
1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. According to the latest NADA guide, high retail for a 1970 Plymouth Superbird built with the U-code engine (a 440 topped by a...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. What a Ford can do, a Holden can do better? Now that the first Australian car has broken the seven-figure ceiling, a collection of racer Peter Brock’s Holdens has ...
The Renaissance Roadster is proof that coachbuilding never went away, and its hand-built nature has been garnering awards since its debut at the 2017 Detroit Autorama. Photos by Joey Savoie, courtesy...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
The Fallen Trooper Memorial Car Show had something for just about everyone. Photos by author. Being both a retired USMC Sergeant Major and a retired Oregon State Patrolman, Rod Beach of Brooks, Orego...
Big-block-swapped 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Originally a Georgia car that started life as a six cylinder, three speed, to a meticulous, full fra...
Shelby in ’66. Painting by Wallace A. Wyss. There have been Hollywood films about automakers, say Preston Tucker. And there have been Hollywood films about race-car builders. It is now confirmed that...
Hemmings file photo. Remaining photos by author. Today is an auspicious day for your intrepid West Coast editor: August 16, 2018, marks the 25th anniversary of your author’s entry into the weird busi...
All images courtesy of the Shelby American Collection Located in Boulder, Colorado, perhaps America’s greatest college town, the Shelby American Collection will be holding its annual car show and par...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Ford’s 10-millionth Mustang, posed with Ford’s first production model. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company. On August 8, Ford celebrated the construction of its 10-millionth Mustang (including product...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
A 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, one of the cars on the National Corvette Museum’s wish list. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. The National Corvette Museum (NCM), located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, strives to te...
From the seller’s description: 2003 Mercury Marauder One owner. 43,000 Miles. One of less than 7000 produced in black in 2003. Beautiful car, excellent condition, very well maintained by owner/mechan...
Restored four-speed 1961 Oldsmobile F85 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The result of a recently completed 3 yr. professional rotisserie, every nut and bolt restoration. Orig...
Photochop by Robert Sanderson. What exactly do Detroit’s automakers need to do to regain their big behemoth-sized dominance in the auto industry? Not tariffs, according to BARRY, who commented on thi...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II – while a best-selle...