Everything you love about an old Volvo, but longer. It’s a 1998 Volvo 960 for sale on Hemmings.com with an astounding 485,000 on the odometer. From the seller’s description: Volvo factory built limou...
All photos by the author. Exhibitors do not apply for entry to the annual Salem (Oregon) Roadster Show. They must be invited. There are no fees to enter, no judging classes or committees. All makes a...
Cell phone service had gone from spotty to non-existent several miles back up the dirt road. Despite the Lemons Rally route book’s assurances that the check point wasn’t far off, the deeper into the ...
The final Trabant model can now be yours. Yes, it’s a 1990 Trabant 1.1 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Traband 1.1 Limousine,4 cylinder runs and drives,fully restored.Very di...
You’ve probably heard it whispered about at any gathering of drag racing fiends born before 1965, but you’ve probably never seen one: the legendary Turbonique drag axle. The interwebs are full of old...
Image from the Turbonique catalog via the Iowahawk blog. This week, we thought it’d be a good idea to kick off the new year with an old, favorite topic: the Turbonique Drag Axle. If you’ve snooped ar...
What is it about American car culture that makes it so much more powerful when it’s found way beyond its original borders? What makes it all so much amazing when it’s translated into foreign language...
For the second year in a row, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour picked one car to be immortalized as a 1:64 scale die-cast toy car at the SEMA Show. This time around, the finalists came from 20 different c...
The Chevrolet El Camino died in 1987, the Dodge Rampage’s dim light was extinguished in 1984, and the Ford Ranchero never got to the see the 1980s. For those who love the automotive mullet that is th...
Why the guy in charge of Dodge and SRT styling doesn’t like those yellow splitter guards you see on Hellcats, our own Richard Lentinello is signing his latest book at the Hershey Fall Meet, and a ful...
Photo courtesy of Volkswagen of America. A documentary highlighting the efforts to recreate a piece of automotive art is now available for streaming on-demand at CuriosityStream. The Woodstock Bus te...
A rare, numbers-matching 1953 Corvette, one of the “lost Corvettes.” Photo courtesy of Dream Car Restorations. Rescued by a group calling itself Corvette Heroes, 36 Corvettes (1953-’82 and 1984-’89) ...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
Car shows are about the people. I spend more time gabbing with car nuts than inspecting the rolling stock. Their stories are always good. All photos by author. Car shows are in my blood…and always on...
Photo courtesy Coys. The only remaining Allard Atom – an experiment in British midget-style racing from the same company that built fire-breathing racers using big American V-8s – will cross the bloc...
If you need any further proof that we’re living in the wrong timeline, then consider this: Allard – maker of monstrous British sports cars powered by American V-8s – only built two Allard Atoms inste...
1985 Tritan A2 Aero Car. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. According to futurist predictions in the 1960s, flying cars would be commonplace in the 1980s. That vision never came to pass, but one compa...
A circa 5/8-scale Fordson Model F tractor. Photos courtesy Aumann Auctions. Much like his Model T automobile, Henry Ford’s affordable tractors brought mechanization to the masses, and the Fordson Mod...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
The Volkswagen Type 2a camper van, rendered entirely in Lego bricks. Photos courtesy f.r.e.e. and Messe Muenchen. Volkswagen’s 1968-’71 Type 2a camper van — sold on these shores as the Campmobile — i...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this bulletin! The origin of the alien device that was discovered last December and has since been variously referred to as “Arc 2 D 2” ...
What looks like an R2-D2 pulled up from a saltwater sea, weighs as much as the Death Star, and has enough firepower to — literally — fuse together two Tie-Fighter’s? No, it’s not something from the S...
Ford’s Cougar II concept on display in Dearborn in 2017. Photo by Barry Kluczyk. For our purposes, the word “lost” needs to be defined. Usually, “lost” is a descriptor applied to an object that no on...
We might argue that one of the main reasons for the redesign of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter was to not just celebrate the new look of the magazine, but to be a regular source of…well, alter...