Photo by Steve Reyes. Though it’s been 40 years since “Jungle Jim” Liberman died, the impression he left on the sport of drag racing – particularly among funny car fans – through his incessant tourin...
Why did Chevrolet decide to keep just one 1983 Corvette in existence? That’s a question the National Corvette Museum decided to tackle for its Heritage Series of videos this week. * Though they’re sh...
Recently serviced one-owner 1963 Studebaker Avanti R1 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: just purchased from the estate of the original owner, totally 100 percent rust free sout...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
Photo courtesy Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Andy Granatelli couldn’t do it. Though he named his twin-supercharged Avanti the Due Cento for his 200 MPH goal, all he could muster at Bonneville in...
Photo courtesy Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Andy Granatelli couldn’t do it. Though he named his twin-supercharged Avanti the Due Cento for his 200 MPH goal, all he could muster at Bonneville in...
One has to wonder how so many carmakers get away with appropriating reusing existing names in the automotive pantheon. By dint of their size and access to lawyers, probably. As we ponder that, the Hi...
“Jungle Jim” Chevrolet Monza funny car. Photo courtesy NHRA. While the Automobile Driving Museum has historically focused on American cars and the on-road driving experience essential to those cars, ...
Double-exposed film, an annoyance that digital photography has all but eliminated, can actually look rather nice in the hands of a photographer like Jacob Kahler, who specializes in double-exposed au...
With the Elite, Lotus took a big step up-market. Launched in 1974, the Type 75 Elite (not to be confused with the Type 14 Elite of 1957) was more luxurious, and more expensive, than any previous Lotu...
The latest Forgotten Fiberglass mystery car. Photos by author. I’ve always been a fan of the space age era from cool plastic stereos and wild “biomorphic” designs. This interest crystallized when I w...
Photo courtesy Bonhams. When Fred Yeakel first bought his Bill Thomas-built Cheetah, it sported not just its original body and chassis, but also a relatively recent restoration. So, of course, he pul...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. Evolution was the name of the game for Chevrolet’s flagship sports car in the mid-1970s. The fourth third-generation Corvette underwent...
Photos by the author. Italy’s carrozzerias were renowned for crafting beautifully shaped sports car bodies out of hand-formed aluminum, but in England, where the burgeoning sports car and racing spec...
Take a Mini Moke racing? Sure, why not, especially if it’s got a fiberglass body draped over it like this 1965 Mooncraft Moke Sport for sale on Hemmings.com, which appears to have seen some racing si...
The Cord 810/812 was certainly one of the most influential designs, both indirectly and directly, as we see from the Oldsmobile Toronado, the SAMCO-Cord, and this 1987 Amaretta Custom Coupe for sale ...
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...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
It’s a misnomer to call any automotive restoration easy – restorations, when they’re done right, require plenty of effort and resources, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise – but some restoratio...
Some cars really speak for themselves, and some cars have a lot to say when it comes to speaking for themselves. Then there’s this 1982 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista for sale on Hemmings.com, a Les D...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
Under new ownership and reeling from a decline in the snowmobile market, Rupp Manufacturing needed a home-run product to reverse its fortunes in 1974. Its roll-of-the-dice gamble was the Centaur, a t...
What was an American Lotus enthusiast to do? The Esprit had finally been given the performance its supercar looks promised, thanks to the introduction of a turbocharger to the 2,147cc inline-four in ...