Similar to the completely new tributes to four-wheel-drive vehicles of decades past that have been all the rage over the last several years, the Encore 151 was a completely new four-wheel-drive rig p...
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...
Photo courtesy SEMA. Some of the largest legislative issues of concern to collector car enthusiasts – among them the Environmental Protection Agency’s racecar ruling and the spread of ethanol-blended...
The car above may look like a Ferrari 308, but underneath its fiberglass replacement body beats the 2.8-liter V-6 heart of the Pontiac Fiero. Don’t call it a kit car, though, since Mera models were o...
“Hoot to drive” should really be in every old car listing, unless it’s something we all take for granted, in which case, we have this replica 1935 Morgan Super Sports barrelback for sale on Hemmings....
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul...
As Ford GT40 replicas go, this 1987 Fordiero GT for sale on Hemmings.com won’t fool anybody into thinking they’re buying a P or J chassis – nobody’s trying to say it’s anything more than what it is –...
The VW Type 2 in the photo above is apparently a one-family, low-mileage example that also happens to be one of the oldest right-hand drive Volkswagens ever. And as bad as it looks in the photo, it t...
Many a significant car existed in multiple configurations, but there can only be one existing car, and thus it can only represent one of the multiple configurations, right? Then there’s this 1932 For...
The Bruce McLaren/Chris Amon Shelby American continuation GT40 Mk II. Photos courtesy Superformance. Ford wasn’t taking any chances in its quest to beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Thirteen GT40s wer...
Photos courtesy Artcurial. To build a magnificent, imposing and graceful automobile takes time. Time, however, has a way of diluting many of the strongest dreams, so building such a car also requires...
Introduced in 1957, the Lotus Seven was essentially a motorcycle on four wheels, perhaps the best illustration of Colin Chapman’s philosophy of “adding lightness.” Though production ended in 1972, th...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
This is the raglan-sleeve jersey that Hometown Jersey made for my car club. A couple of us here are members of a group called the Barnstormers VSC (Vintage Speed Club), and when we decided to have je...
Photos courtesy Building the Legend, except where noted. Generally the rarer a car was to begin with, the greater likelihood that somebody will eventually replicate it. Indeed, two reproductions set ...
Photo by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. With the recent passage of H.R. 22, also known as the FAST Act, replica car makers now have a clear path forward for building turnkey cars, which means...
Superformance’s Corvette Grand Sport, photo courtesy Superformance. Though it seemed like it was going nowhere fast since it first came to light over the summer, the federal legislation designed to e...