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Could this be the best-preserved 1979 VW Beetle Convertible (and what will it sell for)?

Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...

Shockingly, Londoners declare Great Britain world’s greatest automobile producing country

Photo courtesy London Classic Car Show. Day continues to follow night, grass remains green, and the inhabitants of one car-producing country maintain that their car industry has produced the best car...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Eagle Rock Hill Climb, ice racing, Death Chase

While the AACA Library’s working to digitize its existing film collection, as we learned this past week, it already has quite a few neat videos on its YouTube page, including the one above of the 195...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo

Launched in 1990, the Z32 Nissan 300ZX was a radical departure from its predecessor, both in terms of styling and in performance. Clothed in sexy new sheetmetal, the reborn Nissan Z offered a reworke...

Four-Links – newish Duesenberg, compact cop cars, Patterson-Greenfield, Tillamook track map

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...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Citroën DS Break

A DS wagon? Bien sur, mes amis. In the late 1950s, worried about losing market share to new station wagons introduced by Simca, Renault and Peugeot, Citroën decided to create a cargo-friendly version...

Australia proposes new rule letting in all 25-year-old cars

Photo courtesy FCA. Under existing law, the Dodge Viper above – along with any car manufactured after 1988 – has a snowball’s chance of making its way to Australia and remaining there, but a set of r...

Beauty-themed people’s choice Demo Day at the Simeon yields a surprising tie for second place

The winning 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II. Photos by Andrew Taylor unless otherwise noted. Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is home to roughly 65 historically significant sports and competi...

Beauty-themed people’s choice Demo Day at the Simeone yields a surprising tie for second place

The winning 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II. Photos by Andrew Taylor unless otherwise noted. Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is home to roughly 65 historically significant sports and competi...

Sowing Seeds: A handful of Arizona auto shop students receive the lesson of a lifetime

By William Hall. Photos by the author. By his best reckoning, 17-year-old Daniel Gamboa has only driven a stick-shift car about 8 or 9 times in his life. But he shows no reticence in inching closer t...

The $5,000 Challenge, the dog’s breakfast edition

Our friends across the pond have a wonderful description of disorder, calling it “the dog’s breakfast.” While most $5,000 Challenge installments have a common theme, this one does not. There are spor...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Volkswagen Beetle

Though Volkswagen Beetles taught a generation of us the joys of the three pedal shuffle, they typically draw mixed reviews among Hemmings readers. Some praise them for their all-season traction, forg...

Four-Links – Baillon Talbot revisited, Duray U-16, Toyota V-12 update, early British motoring

Those cars from the Baillon barn find collection that went through Artcurial last year were impressive enough in their deteriorated state, but seeing what’s going into the restoration of at least one...

Orange, New South Wales, 1974

Over on Facebook, Graham Graham copied us on this neat street scene from Orange, New South Wales, which he dated to either April or May of 1974. The street sign in the foreground pointed us to the cu...

Everybody sues the EPA over ethanol requirements

Photo by Lars Plougmann. With the release of long-awaited ethanol-blending target numbers late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency managed to draw ire from both renewable fuels supporters ...

Boost Made It Better: 1979 Porsche 924 Turbo brochure

Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As many good points that the 924 had upon its 1977 introduction, this car had just as many bad ones -at least, in the eyes of Porsche’s ...

Alpine A110 wins Historic Monte Carlo Rally

Photos by the author. The annual Historic Monte-Carlo Rally brings together classic car enthusiasts from all over Europe and abroad for an action-packed week of vintage racing. Organized by the Autom...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser

Three decades after Toyota stopped selling the FJ40 Land Cruiser in the United States, the right-sized rigs continue to have a cult following, largely for their impressive off-road capabilities. A fe...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Volvo 240DL

Any car that has a reputation as a tank doesn’t exactly build that reputation by going 30-plus years without a scratch, ding, dent, or tear in the upholstery, but this 1982 Volvo 240DL for sale on He...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1988 Toyota Supra

In 1987, the Toyota Supra split off from the Celica line to become a stand-alone model. Celicas became front-wheel drive, while the A70 Supra, with more sporting intentions, remained on a rear-drive ...

Four-Links – VW bus rescue, the massive Pipe, cop Renault, year of the monkey (bike)

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...

Record-setting, never-raced Porsche 917/30 returns to auction at Amelia Island

1973 Porsche 917/30, chassis 004. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. Introduced to the Can-Am series in 1973, the Porsche 917/30 was the ultimate evolution of the storied Porsch...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Isuzu 117XG

True, whoever buys this 1979 Isuzu 117XG sport coupe for sale on Hemmings.com is only likely to see another one here in the States in a plate glass window reflection, but it’s got more than just the ...

EPA: Race cars have always required factory emissions equipment; SEMA: shenanigans

Photos by the author. In response to an outcry over the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to require intact factory emission control devices on race cars, the EPA maintained that has always ...

Alfa Romeo BAT trio to take the spotlight in Frist Center’s Italian car exhibit

Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles e...

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