Scans of book from author’s collection. Back in the spring of 1971 I was in my freshman year of high school and one of our English assignments that semester was to read a book of our choice and write...
Though this 1966 Pontiac Grand Prix for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t originally come with a four-speed, a) it’s what the owner wanted, b) it’s probably what a good chunk of potential buyers would like...
The close of the 1970s wasn’t exactly the high-water mark for performance cars from American manufacturers, yet that didn’t keep automakers from marketing them. In 1979, Chevrolet produced a consumer...
Image courtesy Google Maps. Other than a nine-hole golf course and Interstate 29, there’s not much around the former Onawa Municipal Airport – just a long strip of concrete in the middle of the Iowa ...
Described in period literature as “Chrysler’s fiery-spirited full-size sports car,” the 1964 Chrysler 300-K was targeted towards discerning buyers looking for a blend of performance, luxury and style...
Three generations of Ford Shelby Rent-A-Racers. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company, unless otherwise noted. In 1966, Carroll Shelby struck a deal with rental car giant Hertz to build a fleet of “Rent...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Devoted fans of GM’s Pontiac Motor Division still mourn the 2010 death of the 83-year-old brand, an unfortunate result of the company’s ...
It’s been 50 years since Team Penske, as it’s known today, first came into existence. That’s one number you need to know. The others are 16, for the number of Indianapolis 500 wins it can claim; 170,...
From a strictly financial perspective, the Dodge Viper is a car that never should have been built. Expensive to produce and targeted to an audience optimistically described as “limited,” the Viper wa...
Photos by author. Buying a used anything that you haven’t actually held in your hands, from a seller that you don’t really know, can be a daunting proposition. Yet, since we can’t have a swap meet in...
Photo courtesy SCTA. It’s too early to tell whether the Southern California Timing Association will get the chance to head back to Bonneville this year, but it has at least been able to secure a retu...
A great candidate for a rolling restoration or a driveable dream, this 1972 AMC Javelin SST for sale on Hemmings.com falls somewhere on the spectrum in between gnarly AMX and basic six-cylinder aroun...
Still from House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology video. In a hearing on the recently introduced bill crafted to exempt competition vehicles from the Clean Air Act, a government researcher...
1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche and Volkswagen collection made headlines when 16 (of 17) cars offered at auction in Amelia Island sol...
A while back, we ran a piece on the 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo sale brochure, and it generated a surprising amount of discussion. Much of it was centered on the highest-performance variant, the Monte...
I don’t know how many of you believe in ghosts, or care, but sometimes there is a story worth telling. This ’73 AMX Pierre Cardin is known as “the murder AMX” as owner was killed in a garage, body du...
An aerial view of the event. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd. Tennesee’s Chattanooga Cruise-In started out several years back as an informal open house at Coker Tire headquarters and Honest Charley Speed Sh...
A 1976 Ford Gran Torino, used in the television series Starsky & Hutch. Image courtesy Leake Auctions. Starsky & Hutch, which premiered on ABC television in April of 1975, was hardly the first crime ...
The disagreement between the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park and its neighbors on Clark Circle remains ongoing, but on March 17 the track will present an amended noise abatement plan to the ...
Stills from Project 1320 crowdfunding video. Zero to 265 in seven years might not sound that impressive on the dragstrip, but that figure takes on a whole new dimension when applied to nabbing interv...
Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to thw...
The 1962 Corvette in as-recovered condition. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In 2015, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, added a maintenance department, housed in the ...
Photos by Jeff Koch. Over the years, as the rumors go, plenty of GM-built performance vehicles either got spiked, squashed, detuned, or hush-hushed to protect the Corvette’s reputation as the prime s...
1973 Hurst/Olds press photo. Art courtesy of Owen Griesemer and GM. If you think you’ve amassed every piece of literature that exists for your car, you may be surprised to learn that there’s probably...
We consider them legends today, but the people racing at Bonneville in the early 1950s were for the most part just regular guys looking to go fast. Fortunately, a couple enthusiasts went out there wi...