Hemmings Find of the Day – 1981 Dodge Mirada
Restored 1981 Dodge Mirada CMX for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Beautifull and rare CMX trim model. A turnkey collector model with the Chrysler mags and 8-track radio (with ev...
Restored 1981 Dodge Mirada CMX for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Beautifull and rare CMX trim model. A turnkey collector model with the Chrysler mags and 8-track radio (with ev...
All photos by the author. Early April in North Carolina means one thing for the collector-car hobby: Charlotte AutoFair. This year’s Spring Charlotte AutoFair will take place from Thursday, April 4, ...
Musclepalooza XXIX, May 26 at Lebanon Dragway in West Lebanon, New York, will be here before you know it. Here’s wheels-up action from a past Musclepalooza — who would you expect to take the win? .em...
This week’s newsletter theme is all about “back to basics.” We think it’s a good idea to dust this off every now and again. After all, it’s great to really push the limits of what we all consider “Mu...
Photo courtesy Onondaga Dragway. A bittersweet farewell message greeted visitors to Onondaga Dragway’s website earlier this month, noting that “we don’t know where to go from here” after a six-year-r...
1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...
Dan Wheldon in 2011. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Each year, a panel of more than 140 journalists, racing historians, and participants in the sport vote to induct two new members into ...
If you’re a gearhead with an internet connection, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this video before. But don’t let that stop you from reveling in its wavy analog goodness once more. And if you have...
Photo by Thirteenth Nile. In an effort to prevent abuse of the state’s antique vehicle registration system, lawmakers in Arkansas have limited the eligibility of vehicles to those 45 years and older,...
From the seller’s description: Professionally built, this one-of-a-kind 1980 Pinto pickup is finished in White with Metallic Copper stripes and hand-painted design motifs that give it an unmistakable...
Photos courtesy Cummins. As a 23-year-old test inspector for Marmon in 1911, Clessie Cummins jumped at the chance to crew for Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, an experienc...
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi convertible. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. The E-body Dodge Challenger debuted in the fall of 1969 as a 1970 model. Both ha...
Shelby Cobras from the Steven Juliano Estate Collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Muscle car collector Steven Juliano, who died of cancer in September 2018, earned a reputat...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...
This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...
Photos courtesy of Southwest Valuations and Classic Car Auction Group. No need to remind any of you that we’re well into 2019 – and that dragsters of the Golden Era of drag racing (let’s call it 1963...
From the seller’s description: 1985 Ford Mustang GT Convertible • Purchased from Original Owner in 2018 • Original Silver Paint with factory black GT accents • Charcoal Leather interior with full fac...
1930 Packard 734 Speedster Runabout. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Packard’s vice president of engineering, Colonel Jesse Vincent, loved fast cars so much tha...
Restomod 1968 Dodge Super Bee for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Vehicle has been restored as a tribute to the Super Bee prototype show car that was displayed at the 1968 Detroi...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Somewhere in Detroit, supposedly in a garage under the Ambassador Bridge, rests a heavily modified ‘Cuda, the last car that ...
If you either poke around on YouTube enough or have a Millennial living under your roof, chances are good that you’ve at least heard of Ken Block, of the Kingdom of Hoon and the Seer of Gymkhana. Now...
‘Cadmad,’ the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photo by John Sanderson. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’s Ridler ...
“Cadmad,” the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photos courtesy Detroit Autorama. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’...
1979 Ford Mustang. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company, unless otherwise noted. Appearing in September 1978, the Fox body Mustang represented a radical departure from the outgoing Mustang II, both ato...
By the time you read this, our own Quain Stott and his epic Southeast Gassers Association will have made their prime-time cable debut on Discovery’s “Moonshiners.” Full disclosure: since we write the...