“The is sorted — safely cared for (and regularly improved) by its current owner, its wings spread so that it may fly through foul Flagstaff winters, where only vehicles with tire chains dare tread,” ...
All images via Packard Proving Grounds. During World War II, Packard opened up its proving grounds in Shelby Township, outside of Detroit, for testing one of the few vehicles at the time sturdier and...
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...
2019 will go down as a year, that much is certain. Joking aside, whether or not 2019 was good depends on your perspective. There’s no better example of this than the arrival of the mid-engine Corvett...
All photos courtesy of Jeep. Startup electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian made recent news by officially confirming a tank turn mode in its upcoming R1T pickup (it will also come on the R1S SUV). It’...
Now that not only a year, but an entire decade is coming to an end, you’re gonna see a lot of roundup articles rehashing old stories. We’re not above that, of course, but let’s take this opportunity ...
A while back, I confessed that, in order to take my mind off of seeing cars every minute of every day, I like to sit back and enjoy a little professional wrestling on TV. I started when I was 12, wat...
Photo via Factory Five. With a looming deadline to respond to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s lawsuit over the replica car law, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. It may come as a surprise today, but Austin of England was one of the largest importers of cars to America in the years following World...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. The response to my question of whether to show Fred Hudson’s boat designs, as well as his Packard and AMC designs, was overwhelmingly positive, so don’t let it be sai...
Whatever your opinion on Preston Tucker or his short-lived automobile company, it’s an undeniable fact that his cars carry a strong following. Give plenty of credit to Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker: ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Civic has been a perennial best-seller for Honda, selling more than 100,000 copies in America every year since 1975, which was just ...
Building an engine is the pinnacle of automotive wrenching. Nothing else is so essential to the soul of a car. It’s a straightforward, yet intricate, puzzle. Putting an engine together correctly is m...
Go-anywhere camping in vintage style, or use it as a decent starting point a restoration. It’s a 1967 Ford Bronco with a pop-up camper for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1967 Fo...
Much as we love talking about the “good ‘ol days” of drag racing and performance, we’d be missing out on a whole new, glorious world if we didn’t invite the kids to the benchracing session. For every...
Photo by Brian W. Scheller. Over the last 20-plus years, one effort after another has been made to definitively secure Toledo’s spot as the spiritual home of the Jeep with a permanent museum dedicate...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Star Newspaper Racing legend and safety innovator Bill Simpson passed away on Monday, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old. As a driver, Simpson was in...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. While the decision to forego Predictor styling on a separate body and force Packard to share body shells with Studebaker might have spelled the end of that marque, it...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. In 1956, with the Studebaker-Packard merger complete and the new company looking to bolster the buying public’s confidence in its ability to build and sell cars that ...
This or That shifts into a different gear this week with a couple of spritely small-block performance cars from the early Seventies: a 1971 AMC Hornet SC/360 and a 1972 Plymouth Duster 340. Both of t...
Apparently Chrysler and Lotus’s collaboration that resulted in the Lotus-tuned dual overhead-camshaft cylinder head for Chrysler’s 2.2-litre inline four was supposed to result in even more hybrid Lot...
With every new Ghostbusters film, it seems we’re introduced to yet another incarnation of the Ecto-1, perhaps the world’s most famous Cadillac-based hearse. Except the latest version, as seen in the ...
If it’s December, it’s time for PRI week in Indianapolis: the Performance Racing Industry trade show that has to be held in the dead of winter, read: not racing season! And while we’ve got our people...
Winter, at least in the states that have winter, is fully upon us. With months of grey and frosty days still ahead, it’s never too early to plan for warm-weather enjoyment. For that, consider the man...