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...
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...
1958 Toyota Toyopet Crown, in left-hand drive. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. When the first Toyota Toyopet Crowns landed on the docks in Los Angeles in the late summer of 1957, no one on h...
Photo courtesy Oldsmobile, via Steve Moskowitz. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile across the country when it was new took skill, mechanical aptitude, and courage. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile acro...
Pandora, my 2000 BMW R1100R. Photo by author. Spring came early to Vermont this year, and with 60-degree temps in the forecast, I opted to wake Pandora, the name I’ve taken to calling my oft-troubles...
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...
1953 Muntz Jet roadster. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Earl “Madman” Muntz was renowned as a used-car and cheap-television pitchman, but even his sales...
Ask fair-weather enthusiasts to name the first hybrid automobile, and the answer is likely to be the Toyota Prius, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1997, or the Honda Insight, which hit the ma...
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...
Buick’s limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it’s certainly not a bad-...
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 ...
One man’s trash, it’s said, is another man’s treasure. While none of the cars gathered for this edition of the $5,000 challenge fall into the “trash” category, each has the potential of being a treas...
It isn’t likely that the first owner of this 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia, for sale on Hemmings.com, purchased his car for investment purposes, intent on preserving it for future generations. Life, as t...
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...
A 1953 Vincent Black Shadow, what a well-heeled Rocker may have ridden in the day. Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Though both groups were actively rebelling against societal norms, the Mods and Rockers...
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 ...
Images courtesy of Renault, unless noted. The New York Times and National Public Radio broke a story on March 1 that Musicologist Mark Clague of the University of Michigan, who is in the process of r...
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...
1958 Chevrolet Bel Air Impala Convertible. Photos courtesy General Motors. Chevrolet’s Impala has been around for a long, long time. Debuting in 1957 as a 1958 model, the Impala soldiered on (in its ...
Let’s be honest: Back in the 1950s, no one bought panel vans as daily drivers. Instead, they were generally snapped up by plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and business owners needing a re...
Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he wa...
Ford Heacock III. Photo courtesy Ford Heacock III. Established as CollectorGuard insurance in 1990 by Ford Heacock III, Heacock Classic insurance has earned a reputation for customer service among cl...