When we left off last time, the car was running better, I had removed all of the trim, lights, locks, handles, and side glass, and it was headed out to Syracuse, New York, to spend some time at my un...
First-generation 1965 Plymouth Barracuda for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1965 Plymouth Barracuda: Same owner for over 20 years, restored and maintained in excellent driving c...
Motor Medic doubled my 1951 Mercury’s oil mileage. But my teen brain reasoned it was cheaper to buy 10-cent cans of oil and store them in the trunk. “Stop that, you’re stinking up the neighborhood!” ...
11,000-mile 1999 Dodge Viper for sale on Hemmings (and in a not-red color as well). From the seller’s description: Dodge Viper RT10 convertible, with Rare Color combination! Viper in 1999 was enhance...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
Unrestored 1967 Chevrolet Camaro for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Numbers matching unrestored survivor car. 327 Cubic Inch V8 2 barrel (210 HP) and 2 speed Powerglide transmis...
Photos courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Brandon Anderson didn’t come up short for superlatives when describing the latest donation to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. As well he should: The ...
Does anyone else out there in Hemmings Nation miss the old days of NASCAR when it was interchangeably known as just “Winston Cup?” As of late, we’ve been talking about those halcyon days when drivers...
The Seventies. Big hair, bell bottoms, platform shoes, disco, and proto-malaise. Not all of it was bad, though, and this video is here to remind you that drag racing in the Nixon era ruled, in the da...
Date: March 1958 Location: Ellis and Taylor streets, San Francisco, California Source: Robert Durden Color Slide Collection, via San Francisco Public Library What do you see here?
2008 Jeep Renegade. All images courtesy FCA. Since the turn of the century or so, carmakers burnished their green credentials with concept vehicles that were meant in some way to rely on traction mot...
It’s a 2000 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG for sale on Hemmings.com. 349 horsepower might not seem like much today, but in the year 2000 it was 4 hp more than the base Chevrolet Corvette had. From the seller’...
Date: December 1964 Location: Urey Hall parking lot, UCSD, San Diego, California Source: Charles H. Graves, via UCSD Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photo by the author. In the annals of automotive history lie the names of thousands of dead carmakers. While most of them remain long-forgotten, some still carry enough cachet for occasional attempts...
Highly customized 1984 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This custom car is built on a GM F-Body Pontiac Firebird chassis as show car and daily driver. Custom ...
Somehow we missed this engine at the 2019 SEMA Show, probably mistaking it for two V-8 placed very close together. A V-16, after all, is not something you see very often, and a brand new one is even ...
A rendering of what part of the proposed museum would look like. The plan includes a functional drive-in restaurant patterned on Burge’s, one of the turnarounds on the Modesto cruise route of the ’50...
Slant six-powered 1980 Chrysler LeBaron for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The early owner of this car was Georgia Belle and decals were applied after the car was painted severa...
Jack working on Nebulous Theorem XII. Photo via JackCostella.com. For 50 years, Jack Costella returned to the salt at Bonneville in what amounted to a decades-long science experiment, probing the lim...
Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. Bertone was once one of the greatest Italian design and coachbuilding houses. Its credits include styling icons such as the Lancia Str...
Refurbished 1964 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 64064 original miles (700 on new motor) Factory air Color: Viper Red Runs great and a real pleasure to dri...
Refurbished 1968 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 64064 original miles (700 on new motor) Factory air Color: Viper Red Runs great and a real pleasure to dri...
Did you ever want to own KITT? No, the other KITT, but still an actual KITT and not a clone. This is the car from the 2008 TV movie that turned into the single-season, 17 episode series. It’s a 2008 ...