In my pre-driving teenage years, I had older friends who were hooked on installing steep rear gears in the late-1960s and early-to-mid-1970s used cars they owned and modified. They liked to blast fro...
Photo courtesy Visit California. More than a year after landslides took out a portion of California’s State Route 1 and made national headlines, California’s Department of Transportation will re-open...
1959 Mercury Park Lane convertible (top, image by Richard Lentinello); 1960 Buick LeSabre convertible (bottom, image by the author). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two...
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...
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 used in “GoldenEye.” Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. GoldenEye, released in 1995 as the 17th film in the James Bond franchise, marked the return of the superspy’s beloved ...
Photography by the author. If you can imagine spending a warm summer day perusing a show field awash in pristine examples of coveted collectible cars, trucks, and motorcycles, then you know just what...
From the seller’s description: 1989 Ford Probe , 4 cyl OHV 2.2L 4 valve/cyl turbo, 5 speed, AC, PS, PB. Turbo was discontinued the next year. Very collectible. 1989 was the first year that the Probe ...
Photo courtesy Heritage Skills Academy. Less than a year after its debut, the U.K. Heritage Skills Academy — the country’s only accredited institution teaching auto restoration skills — has secured g...
The Bullitt Charger leads the Bullitt Mustang up the hill at Goodwood. Still images from Goodwood live stream video. In the five decades since its release, the seven-minute car chase featured in the ...
1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX (top); 1968 Shelby G.T. 500 KR (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enabl...
From the seller’s description: 1965 Ford Galaxie 500XL Convertible , Sold new in Northern California, has been in storage for many years. Palomino Tan Metallic (Gold) color, FoMoCo stainless fender s...
1935 Duesenberg SSJ roadster. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Duesenberg’s SJ models were noted for the performance of their 320-horsepower supercharged st...
1964 Buick LeSabre two-door convertible. Magazine advertising courtesy of Lov2XLR8. Introduced as a new line in 1959, Buick’s fullsize LeSabre models were completely restyled for 1961. Three years la...
From the seller’s description: 1956 GMC Suburban Deluxe 100 Series | 316cu in 5.2 liter V8, 4 Speed Hydra-Matic Transmission Original Low Miles (64,893) Rust Free California Carryall – Made in Oaklan...
Plymouth on Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard. In 1896, Charles Brady King drove the first automobile in the city of Detroit. His route included Woodward Avenue, a main thoroughfare for the city then ...
Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is the only institution to recognize...
John McComb’s 1967 Ford Mustang restomod. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. John McComb likes to refer to himself as the “best race driver that no one’s ever heard of,” though fans of ...
Red Vogt, who suggested the NASCAR name. Photo courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. By no means did stock car racing start with NASCAR. Rather, a patchwork of stock car racing organizations blanketed the co...
From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a 1954 Hudson Hornet Brougham Convertible in superb condition. This car underwent an extensive nut and bolt restoration that included every option possib...
Photos by Josh Bryan, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. For all of its dream car aesthetics, the 1960 Plymouth XNR very nearly became a production reality. That it didn’t likely proved a huge disappointment to ...
The 1914 Wanderer owned by Hans-Dieter Springer (wearing bib number 12). Photo by Matthias Mausolf, courtesy AMC Ibbenbueren. From its start as a bicycle manufacturer near Chemnitz, Germany in 1885, ...
1966 Shelby G.T. 350H; all images by the author. It’s presale estimate was set at $150,000 – $200,000. Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine print cycles have dictated that we bid farewell to the 2018 Sc...
Photos via Dignity Memorial (left) and Kustomrama (right). Land-speed racers defend their sport as the last bastion of pure amateur racing, in which the participants compete for personal achievement ...
Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. They range in status from iconic to mundane and in age from ancient to fairly modern. Some seem relatively straightforward while others appear almost out of...