Photo via Factory Five. With a looming deadline to respond to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s lawsuit over the replica car law, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued ...
Photo courtesy DeLorean Motor Company. At least one carmaker that had planned to build turnkey replica vehicles under the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act has already thrown in the towel du...
Photo by GmanViz. Though Craig Corbell said he got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, he’s decided to drop the project altogether and put the rights for ...
Superformance’s Shelby Daytona coupe replica. Photo courtesy Superformance. Despite a number of pleas from the Specialty Equipment Market Association to move along regulations that would allow replic...
Photo courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Over the years, cab companies have sent entire fleets of Checker taxis — worn out to the brink of literally falling apart, rusted, and scavenged for p...
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...
Steve McDonald speaks at a SEMA Town Hall meeting. Photo courtesy SEMA. Steve McDonald’s name may not be familiar to everyone in the old car hobby, but his battles against overbearing governmental re...
Photos courtesy Checker Motor Cars. With a stock of Checker parts in hand and official paperwork filed, the reborn Checker Motor Cars is set to begin production of its versions of the famed taxi comp...
Photo by Martin Falbisoner. With just about a week left to go in the current Congressional session, a handful of bills ranging from ethanol reform to excluding competition vehicles from environmental...
1937 Cord 812. Photo by Jeff Koch. Eighty years ago, the Cord epitomized the car of the future. Now, thanks in part to legislation intended to encourage low-volume replica car builders, the Cord may ...
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...