Partly complete 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 replica for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is my late father’s unfinished kit car. The finished car will resemble a 1962 Austin-...
Customized 1981 Chevrolet Corvette for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: automatic, 350 cu in with a 750 CFM Holley Carburetor and a B&M Supercharger with MSD multiple spark discha...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For many a sports and racing car builder in the Fifties, Frank Kurtis’ “off-the-shelf” chassis had little equal. It provided good handling, room for bigger engines, and ...
It looks like a Camaro from the front but, like the mullet hairstyle often associated with ’80s pony cars, it’s definitely party in the back. Fiberclassics has a little history on this body kit, offe...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For many a sports and racing car builder in the Fifties, Frank Kurtis’ “off-the-shelf” chassis had little equal. It provided good handling, room for bigger engines, and ...
What’s a Woodill Wildfire? In short it’s a Willys-based sports car, and only a few were made for production with more built from kits. For more history, read this story from Hemmings Motor News . Or ...
Would you look at that: More photos from our readers! Which is great, because all of you who responded to our last reader photo roundup pretty much unanimously endorsed the idea of doing this on a re...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. Jerry Gardner — The Man Jerome B. “Jerry” Gardner was born April 9, 1934, in Saugerties, New York. He was the son of the late Edward and Anna Brandow Gardner. A veteran of the ...
Reproduction body 1957 Byers SR100 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: newly built Byers SR100 body fitted to a modified Corvette C3 chassis. This package was prepared with the f...
Restored 1953 Glasspar G2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is a G2 from 1953 fitted with a V8 Flathat engine and Edmonds cylinder heads. The car has just joined a Ful...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Mickey Thompson sped along at 100 miles an hour or so. He didn’t have another land-speed record or motorsports title in his sights. He didn’t even have his hands on the wheel...
Can’t recall whether we’ve given space to Bill Guernsey’s Atomic Camper in the past. Even if we have, it’s worth pointing to Bubblemania’s post ( English translation ) on it, if for nothing else than...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor While the automotive world has largely come around to Saab ‘s way of thinking today – front-wheel drive; safety...
Fiberglass 1960s Bohada body for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Rare bohada body built in the 60’s to go on a TR3-4-6 chassis or a cut down vw or porsche. Carries a 88 to 90 in ...
As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. For years, William Towns just sat on the idea of building his own car. To begin with, he had his hands full designing vehicles for other carmakers. But he also didn’t think h...
Documented 1965 Devin Special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A spectacular pairing of European design and American grunt, this Devin roadster is offered for sale by its orig...
From the seller’s description: 1985 TVR 390SE , LHD, Yellow, Black, 64k, power steering, built 4.6l, mild cam, stage III heads, dynoed at 232 hp at rear wheels, perfect frame, complete stainless stee...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
Photos courtesy Blackhawk Collection. It’s easy to credit (or blame, depending on your tastes) Virgil Exner for designing just about every production and concept car Chrysler built in the Fifties, bu...
Modena Design GT Spyder California. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a 1986 John Hughes coming-of-age comedy, made stars of actor Matthew Broderick and a relatively obscure F...
Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...
Photos courtesy Renault, except where noted. Unsurprisingly, the image many news outlets chose to illustrate their stories on the death of Lee Iacocca earlier this month showed him at the introductio...
The last 1953 Chevrolet Corvette built, chassis 300. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was Harley Earl that sold GM on the need to produce an all-American sports car, and to test the waters, his Spe...