F9: The Fast Saga is coming this summer, and the first preview came out last weekend. Yes, at this point The Fast and the Furious is basically a superhero movie franchise with cars as a loose backdro...
Over the holidays, it seems some thieves in Moscow decided to treat themselves to a Christmas present: Stalin’s ZiS-115 armored limousine. Local media say the vehicle belonged to the head of security...
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...
Photo by Bill Smith. Imagine this scenario: It’s a perfect spring day, so you opt to drive your classic car on a series of local errands. Lunch out is part of the plan, but exiting the restaurant, yo...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
Photos courtesy Kevin Mackay. The years-long ownership dispute over the last unrestored Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette — a car that could be worth millions — may soon come to an end now that a ju...
In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...
Images courtesy Scott Kennebeck. Scott Kennebeck thought his big-block powered 1974 Chevrolet Corvette was safe. It was kept in a locked trailer on a storage lot located off of Route 120 in McHenry, ...
Update to last week’s links to the story of the Wild Cherry van: Chris Carter, the Illinois man who restored the van, has been arrested on felony auto-theft charges and will be extradited to Californ...
Photos by Remi Dargegen. The world over, there’s probably only one Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing sporting a three-inch chopped roofline, bubbles in the top to clear the driver’s and passenger’s heads...
Robert Moses had all sorts of grand plans for Manhattan’s road network, none grander than the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). However, as Curbed pointed out in this 2016 article, the efforts of a...
A replica of DP/216/1, on display at the Miami Auto Museum. Photo by Myles Kornblatt. For 21 years, the fate of an Aston Martin DB5 carrying chassis tag DP/216/1 has remained a mystery, ever since th...
Image courtesy Michele Monticello. Despite the shuttering of the police investigation into the theft of Michele Monticello’s Porsche, Monticello remains committed to finding the car a year after it w...
Photo by englemk. Typically after a devastating storm, we’ll see stories about collector cars lost due to a garage collapse. In the case of a 1949 Ford in Richmond, Virginia, however, the recent stor...
Photo courtesy Danielle Moran. There wasn’t much left of Marie’s 1967 Mustang other than a shell when Harry Donovan retrieved it. The engine and transmission had gone missing, as had the hood and bum...
Automotive American gathered several of the stories of California car collections destroyed by the recent (and ongoing) wildfires there. * When driving the Lincoln Highway through Pennsylvania you ma...
Ross Paswell, convicted of auto theft in 1945. Mugshots courtesy angusmcdiarmid on Flickr. They make it look easy in the movies: Fiddle around under the steering wheel, strip some wires, and touch tw...
Sometimes, a stolen car hits close to home. Mike Musto, host of The House of Muscle, has been a friend of ours for a lot of years, and his sinister 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona clone even won our “Musc...
Photo courtesy Bob Majeski. Ambassadors might not be the most highly sought-after cars, even among AMC fans, but that has proven a boon to enthusiast Bob Majeski, who can cite their off-beat status a...
Photos provided by the owner. While it took several years for Gavin Murdoch and his daughter to restore the family’s 1965 Ford Mustang fastback – and another few years for his wife to warm up to it –...
The recovered 1981 Ferrari 308 GTSi. Photos courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach process an average of 500 vehicl...