Photos courtesy General Motors. In March 2015, Chevrolet’s Performance Build Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, reintroduced the Engine Build Experience for buyers of the seventh-generation Corvette’...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Know what one of the best things about a hot rod is? The motor, son. “Of course,” right? But the decisions that are made around the engine for a hot ...
DeLorean factory in Humble, Texas. Image via Google Maps. By now, two years after the passage of the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act, architects of the legislation had hoped to see assembl...
Bob Glidden is inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in April, 2005. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. When Bob Glidden was inducted as number four on the NHRA’s Top...
FIVA-lauded 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype. Photo courtesy FIVA. While it makes exceptions for period-modified vehicles in its recently released Charter of Turin Handbook, the Fed...
From the seller’s description: 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe , T-Tops, numbers matching, only 37,246 miles. Adult enthusiast owned, always garage kept, never modified or abused. This partic...
2018 Ford Mustang GT, not yet available in a Power Stroke diesel version. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. While facing the unenviable task of lugging my life’s belongings to a new domicile a whil...
2018 Corvette Hall of Fame inductees John Greenwood, Burt Greenwood, Tom Wallace, and Mike Yager. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. Since its inception in 1997, the Corvette Hall of Fame, loc...
An aerial view of Rocky Mountain Raceways. Photo courtesy Google Maps. In 1968, Bonneville Raceways brought drag racing to West Valley City, Utah, a community located southwest of Salt Lake City. In ...
The car at Conder Custom, its body hanging above itself, looking down like when you die and have one of those out-of-body experiences, but then come back to life and write a book about your experienc...
Photo by the author. So, my column in the December 2017 issue of Hemmings Motor News generated quite the response over how to attract more young people into the old car hobby. All of the responses we...
1982 Buick Grand National Regal (top); 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo SS (bottom); images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that...
1968 Molzon Corvair. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1963, GM designer William “Bill” Molzon set out to build a car of his own, with some rather ambitious goals: It would accelerate faster than ...
The car at Conder Custom in Sonoma, California. This is what it looked like before we conjured the exhaust setup. Can you dig it?!? All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Hot rodding has r...
The 1998 Reynard 98i driven by Bobby Rahal in his last Champ Car race. Photos courtesy The Petersen Museum. After an open-wheel racing career that spanned nearly two decades, Bobby Rahal drove his la...
Restomodded 1971 Ford Ranchero for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1971 Ranchero GT-500 is completely restored, updated and modernized. It has all the power under the hood y...
From the seller’s description: 1969 Plymouth Road Runner. RM21H9A235823. Matching number 383 Magnum engine (E63) with 727 automatic transmission (D32). Odometer reads 12,118 (true mileage cannot be v...
Bookstore shelves are filled with volumes about muscle cars and the muscle-car era, but how many were written by someone who spent their entire life driving the cars, building them, and writing about...
Back, L to R: Brad Francis, Greg Ozubko, Simon Menzies, Alan Kenny, Kevin Power, Rob Flynn, Gary Beck, Bob Papirnick, Eddy Bryck, Ray Peets, Don MacCallum and Robert Slater. Front, L to R: Greg Nicke...
The original sketch Tim Conder, of Conder Custom, made after we talked about life, love, cars, art, dragsters, the Munster’s Koach , the Phonebooth T , Ed Roth, Garbage Pail Kids, Krofft Superstars, ...
Photo by CleftClips. One would think the fluorescent orange signs would do the trick. Or perhaps the flashing LED lights mounted to those signs. But the Southern California Timing Association has dec...
Dick Landy’s 1965 Dodge Hemi Coronet AFX Dragster. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The 12 B-bodies rolled out by Chrysler in late 1964 for Factory Experimental drag racing didn’t look quite right, es...
From the seller’s description: 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am 4.9L WS6 with T-Tops and 4 wheel disk brakes. 1981 was the final year of the second generation body style made famous in the “Smokey a new b...
Less common than they once were, concept cars have traditionally been developed by automakers to judge public reaction to possible new models or new technologies. Here, Mac’s Motor City Garage looks ...