All photos courtesy of Ford. It’s called the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 and, yes, that number stands for 1,400 horsepower. What’s different from other recent Cobra Jets, Ford’s track-only drag racing ver...
Photography by Jeff Koch We recently profiled the heartwarming tale of a man who sold his high-school car— a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 —and was able to reclaim it more than a decade after he’d sold ...
If there’s one constant in car culture, it’s the garage wall poster. We’ve all got at least one and if we’re being honest, most of us really don’t have much empty square-inchage left on any one wall ...
This week, here at the Muscle Machines newsletter, we’re featuring a smart little ’51 Henry J gasser-style ruler for sale on hemmings.com. Sure, there are plently of these cars around nowadays…and da...
My grandfather’s 1987 Buick Regal Turbo-T, circa 2015 I recently lost my grandfather about two weeks ago and was not able to attend his services due to COVID-19. In this crazy pandemic everything in ...
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...
Low-mileage, preserved 1994 Chevrolet Impala SS for sale on Hemmings.com: Up for sale is my 1994 Chevrolet Impala SS. This is an early production (3/94 first month of manufacture) car that I purchase...
We do love a good mystery. And when it’s backed up by a neat story, nay, legend, count us in, kid. And so it is with the legend of a certain ’56 Chevy post coupe that ran the San Francisco Bay area b...
While the word “news” is literally in our name, Hemmings Motor News is not the place people turn to when they want to find out the latest information in political, economic, or, most recently, global...
There’s a question right now, hanging over car culture, and it’s no secret: What do we do about our beloved car shows and cruise nights and garage hangs in the days of COVID-19? What about visions of...
This week, we featured a fairly-bitchin’ 1966 Ford Fairlane GTA in the Muscle Machines newsletter. Which got us to thinking: what other versions of this clean little Sixties midsize were offered for ...
Photo illustration by Josh Skibbee. It might seem that, in the new era of social distancing, the way we shop for cars will change. The fact is, car shopping has already changed. The internet, with al...
Photo by tpsdave. We’re continuing to post closures, postponements, and cancellations due to the coronavirus, including the recent announcement that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will not host an I...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Less than a month ago, Bloodhound LSR owner Ian Warhurst believed the massive jet/rocket-propelled car could still make it back to Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world l...
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 ...
Photo by PSParrot. Fifty years ago, to the day, Larry Rathgeb had brought a cadre of engineers, a hired shoe, and the hottest car on the planet to Talladega. His goal: get the driver, Buddy Baker, to...
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 ...
Award-winning 1968 Ford Mustang California Special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Unrestored 2018 MCA Grand National Gold winning GT/CS is available. This car looks restored...
Given that the first Shelby G.T.350R, which will soon be headed to auction, appeared in the Ford-sponsored “ Shelby Goes Racing With Ford ” video from 1965, it’s an opportune time to sit back and get...
Still from NHRA video. With more than 50 years now separating us from the two historical racing events we discussed this past week – Don Garlits’s transmission explosion at Lions in 1970 and Ken Mile...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. When the Bullitt Mustang sold for a record $3.4 million earlier this year, hardly anybody asked what Mustang could top that; why ask a silly questi...
Don Garlits in Swamp Rat XIII, March 1970. Photo courtesy NHRA. 1,300 pounds. 1,600 horsepower. 220 inches out to those front wheels. No more bodywork or paint than necessary. Like many a Don Garlits...
It’s an old trope that stock cars used to be stock cars, but there’s still a lot of truth to that. In between those early NASCAR days when off-the-assembly-line Hudson Twin H-Power big sixes ruled th...
Photo by Matt Litwin. In every niche in the collector car world, there are people you stop and listen to, no matter the occasion. When it comes to Studebaker drag racing, that person is Ted Harbit, w...
Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...