Rex Johnson, drivetrain builder, in his shop. Photos by author. Earlier this month, I sent a retrospective piece to Kurt Ernst, at Hemmings Daily, discussing how 2017 was a mixed bag. I didn’t get to...
Date: May 1974 Location: Washington, D.C. Source: Jim Pickerell photo for the Environmental Protection Agency, via Library of Congress What do you see here?
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Photo courtesy Big Brutus, Inc. Big doesn’t begin to describe Brutus. Other mechanical shovels scattered around the towering piece of machinery look like toys. On the flats of southeastern Kansas it ...
Sir Stirling Moss at the 2015 Mille Miglia. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz. Consider this: In his active years as a driver, Sir Stirling Moss won 57-percent of the races he entered, across a variety o...
The Deboss Garage team lost a lot of sleep and meals to get the 1990 Audi V8 they call Quattro Debocho finished and ready for competition. The first event was the half-mile shootout at Jumbolair Airp...
Buch-Projekte Dass in letzter Zeit ein paar Sammlungen auf «radical» eröffnet wurden, hat, Sie ahnen es bestimmt, tatsächlich so seine Gründe. Einmal abgesehen davon, dass wir solches als spannend em...
Rückblick samt Ankündigung(en) In Zukunft werden wir diesen Newsletter nur noch alle zwei Wochen erstellen. Es ist nicht so, dass wir weniger Artikel publizieren werden, doch weil wir intensiv mit un...
Last autumn we not only had the unique opportunity to test drive several generations of the Mercedes S-Class on one of their original test tracks in Germany, we also had their original engineers with...
Last autumn we not only had the unique opportunity to test drive several generations of the Mercedes S-Class on one of their original test tracks in Germany, we also had their original engineers with...
Older restoration 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Hurst/Olds for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Restored in 1987, the stock 455 was bored out to 462 cu. in. and was rebuilt with mostly ...
I wanted to meet “Big Daddy” Don Garlits when he raced Swamp Rat-I at Atco Dragway in 1962. But it wasn’t to be, and I had to wait 41 years for it to happen. Photo courtesy Garlits Museum of Drag Rac...
From the seller’s description: 1974 Jensen Interceptor III Luxury Grand Touring Coupe. Built in Birmingham, England. Very rare automobile; only 6408 built between 1966-1976, with just 1779 being Seri...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
Guter Typ Es macht schon einen entscheidenden Unterschied, ob man einen Wagen ein paar Stunden bewegen kann (das heisst dann: Fahrbericht ) oder ob ein paar Tage, im Alltag (das nennen wir dann: Test...
Ja, es geht natürlich auch im neuen Jahr weiter. Altautotreff, egal wie kalt es werden wird. Wir sehen uns auf dem Parkplatz!
This 2007 BMW E87 5-door hatchback started life with as a 118d model with a turbo diesel inline-four. However the owner Josh wanted more power and torque so he turned to the talented mechanics at Qua...
Discovered in a barn in 2003 as a nearly stripped chassis, this '58 Lister was what most might consider "total rubbish." Initially fitted with a Jaguar engine in 1961, it was blown up during testing ...
I can remember commuting from Albany, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts, every Thanksgiving as a child and traveling the NYS Thruway and the Massachusetts Turnpike to get there. Being part of a...
Streng nach dem Motto: „Aller guten Dinge sind vier“ werden wir auch 2018 wieder versuchen allen Freunden Kölner Altmetalls eine Plattform zu schaffen um sich zu treffen, Benzin zu quatschen, nach Te...
Date: January 1961 Location: Fredericksburg Road and Flores Street, San Antonio, Texas Source: UTSA Libraries What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: Its come time to sell my 1974 Charger . Its Collector and Adult owned, Garage kept, Clean title, Well taken care of, Maintence up to date. It has a powerful 318 v8 that...
Photography by the author. Half a century of Hot Wheels. Can you believe it? Oh, metal toy cars existed long before Mattel’s eternal “blue brand” (so named for the color of its packaging), but Mattel...
In 1948, Land Rover debuted its first model at the Amsterdam Motor Show. Three prototypes graced the company’s stand, and one – described as a demonstrator model – resurfaced in a garden near its Sol...
This 1978 Datsun 280Z called Du Hast was built by Rock Solid Motorsports in Statesville, North Carolina. Between the front wheels sits a 346 ci LSx V8 built by Tick Performance and features an iron b...