The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be mod...
More than 300 invited guests and members view 33 genuine Indy cars from 9 different decades – a full field under one roof – celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s No...
Photography by the author. My son recently found a vintage cassette called Cruisin’ Classics Volume II 70’s & 80’s, which was offered by Shell. Knowing that I’m always looking for automotive-related ...
Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you’ve never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl...
Oldsmobile’s 4-4-2 became a separate model on the all-new ’68 edition, rather than an option on the Cutlass. The base Sports Coupe carried a starting MSRP of $3,063, the hardtop Holiday Coupe started...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...
After years of playing whack-a-mole with electrical gremlins in my 1971 Volvo 1800E, I decided to start from scratch with a brand-new wiring harness. However, as you can tell from the nearly two-year...
Photo via Roy Lunn Archives, Car Guy Chronicles. To different groups of car enthusiasts, Roy Lunn represents vastly different accomplishments. There are Ford’s GT40 wins at Le Mans, for which he’s pe...
Photos courtesy Reg Uren While Cobra Jet Torinos and Shelby Mustangs may get all the glory these days, the early Ford Falcons (alongside the Chevrolet Corvair and Chrysler’s Valiant) were also consid...
1998 Dodge Viper GTS-R coupe. Photos courtesy FCA. It began as a design exercise by Chrysler’s Advance Design Studios in 1988, and would have ended there if not for Bob Lutz’s crazy idea to build a S...
Offloading the Corvette SS at the National Corvette Museum. Photo courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in Bowl...
Blame it on The Race of Gentlemen, but every time we come back from the beach-racing showdown, we contemplate building a car of our own. Starting from scratch can be both complicated and expensive, m...
Photo by Bri ham. History doesn’t happen in a vacuum (here on Earth, at least) – it’s a sometimes messy affair that involves plenty of people connected to individual events, some of them directly but...
Plenty of sellers will describe their cars as original and then list off all the items they’ve modified or restored. While there’s no shame in maintaining a car over the decades, exaggerating the ori...
Photos courtesy Akron Ohio Race Legends Fund. The Arfons brothers thought a plane had crashed. It was the only reason they could think of for such a crowd to gather at the Akron airport and close off...
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday ni...
Photos courtesy SEMA. If trade shows – beyond merely serving as a means of collecting business cards and branded swag – tend to serve as a barometer of an industry’s health, then the annual SEMA show...
Still image from video below. This is not one of those Driver’s Ed. shock films that most of us grew up with-no real accident scenes, no blood. Instead, this is simply a defensive driving lesson rega...
eDaily Book Review How sad is it that very few books on Oldsmobile have ever been published? Being one of America’s greatest brands, and having lasted 107 years, you would think publishers would have...
Gary Gabelich. Still from Break the Record video. Hot rods, jet dragsters, go-karts, drag boats, stadium trucks, motorcycles – Gary Gabelich seemed never to have met a form of motorsport he didn’t li...
Photo by Christopher Najewicz. For some, buying a collector car is the easy part, but finding a place to keep it is the real challenge. For others in need of income and blessed with too much garage s...
Photo courtesy Bonhams. When Fred Yeakel first bought his Bill Thomas-built Cheetah, it sported not just its original body and chassis, but also a relatively recent restoration. So, of course, he pul...
As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
Photo by the author. If the California state legislature’s various attempts to make laws concerning older cars this year are to be considered as a whole, then the cutoff for collector cars exempt fro...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. Evolution was the name of the game for Chevrolet’s flagship sports car in the mid-1970s. The fourth third-generation Corvette underwent...