Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. It’ll be here before you know it, and when it is, you might be wishing you had something with a top that goes down. Although it’s a truism of the old-car...
Photos courtesy McPherson College C.A.R.S. Club. Big anniversary party coming up for McPherson College’s auto restoration program, so of course they’ve planned a celebration. Instead of cake, though,...
1963 Sting Ray coupe (L) and restomod 1967 Sting Ray coupe. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Which is more valuable: A period-correct (but not entirely original), NCRS Top Flight Award-winning split w...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
Photo courtesy Charles Rosenblum. As a teenager in a small Ohio town, I had plenty of enthusiasm for cars, but not much exposure to exciting ones. In the early 1980s, long before the internet, inform...
From the seller’s description: 1991 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1LE This Z28 1LE in ultra-blue metallic is a one owner car with less than 61,000 miles and has been garage kept since 1994. It has the 305 TPI...
Photos courtesy FCA. Imagine a world where “because you can, and no one else has” is a good enough reason to build a product that most would deem too dangerous, too impractical and too limited in sco...
A.J. Foyt, with the Bowes Seal Fast Special in 1961. Image courtesy IMS. A.J. Foyt was the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, earning victories in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977. Two of ...
Former Pure Stock Drags 1968 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I have owned this 4-4-2 since 1986. This car is equipped from the factory with power seat, remot...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Polarizing? Sure. Criticized? Of course. But the Petersen Automotive Museum’s undulating steel ribbon facade can now be described as award-winning after th...
1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Hitting the open road in the family car used to be an American institution, and for many, a rite of passage. Today, cheap airfare and ever...
Date: circa 1965 Location: 901 North Sepulveda Boulevard, El Segundo, California Source: George Watters via SAACForum.com In addition to the Cobras, what do you see here?
The first publicly available 1978 Chevrolet Corvette Pace Car Replica, VIN 1Z8748S900003. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1978, for the first time since its 1953 debut, a Chevrolet Corvette was se...
Parnelli Jones and A.J. Foyt at the 1964 Indianapolis 500. Photo by Dave Friedman, courtesy The Henry Ford. Chapter Eight: Tire Wars Less evident to casual race fans than the changes being caused by ...
McLovin-plated big-block-powered 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The car has a 454 with an aggressive cam, HEI ignition and a Holly 750 double pumper ...
Image via Old Car Brochures. So the next time you feel like illustrating your point that even big-shot bigwig executives get things wrong by trotting out that story you heard about the Nova bombing i...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. Industrial parks may take the place of airstrips in the East Coast Timing Association’s ongoing search for a new venue – a search that has now postponed ...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200-mph Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200 MPH Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
1971 Dodge Demon restomod for sale. From the seller’s description: Mopar enthusiast owned for 10 years, very solid car, full two and a half year restoration completed 5 years ago, everything new or r...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Package for sale. From the seller’s description: This 10A/E runs and drives great on the highway and anywhere without issue. Unrestored. California built car. C...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
From the seller’s description: 1971 Ford Torino Cobra 351 Cleveland. Automatic transmission all number’s matching ONE of ONE. Full restoration. Came with laser stripe, cobra decals, magnum wheels and...