Provided photos. As a kid, did you try to draw cars that combined features of several favorite models? Dmitry Khudobin gets inspiration like that today. He’s got a book full of designs, and, working ...
Photo by Russ London. “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” – Mary Shelle...
Photo by Tim Oram. After finding dozens of aftermarket parts companies in violation of the Clean Air Act for selling emissions defeat devices last year, the Environmental Protection Agency has announ...
It was almost 15 years ago that I was sitting in my apartment in Queens, New York. A foot of snow was on the ground and, at the time, I was getting my feet wet in the automotive industry. A few years...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
Unrestored 1967 Chevrolet Camaro for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Numbers matching unrestored survivor car. 327 Cubic Inch V8 2 barrel (210 HP) and 2 speed Powerglide transmis...
Does anyone else out there in Hemmings Nation miss the old days of NASCAR when it was interchangeably known as just “Winston Cup?” As of late, we’ve been talking about those halcyon days when drivers...
The Seventies. Big hair, bell bottoms, platform shoes, disco, and proto-malaise. Not all of it was bad, though, and this video is here to remind you that drag racing in the Nixon era ruled, in the da...
Highly customized 1984 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This custom car is built on a GM F-Body Pontiac Firebird chassis as show car and daily driver. Custom ...
A rendering of what part of the proposed museum would look like. The plan includes a functional drive-in restaurant patterned on Burge’s, one of the turnarounds on the Modesto cruise route of the ’50...
Jack working on Nebulous Theorem XII. Photo via JackCostella.com. For 50 years, Jack Costella returned to the salt at Bonneville in what amounted to a decades-long science experiment, probing the lim...
You’ve probably heard it whispered about at any gathering of drag racing fiends born before 1965, but you’ve probably never seen one: the legendary Turbonique drag axle. The interwebs are full of old...
Image from the Turbonique catalog via the Iowahawk blog. This week, we thought it’d be a good idea to kick off the new year with an old, favorite topic: the Turbonique Drag Axle. If you’ve snooped ar...
Documented 1965 Griffith 400 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: chassis # 400-5-007 is a very special car. Often referred to as a “Cobra Killer”, 400-5-007 has been owned by the...
Quick: Is there a holy grail Ford motor you can name? If you answered, “Cammer!” we’re right there with you, friend. Good answer. And we never get tired of watching videos of a Ford SOHC motor runnin...
Photo via Factory Five. With a looming deadline to respond to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s lawsuit over the replica car law, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued ...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
Much as we love talking about the “good ‘ol days” of drag racing and performance, we’d be missing out on a whole new, glorious world if we didn’t invite the kids to the benchracing session. For every...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. While the decision to forego Predictor styling on a separate body and force Packard to share body shells with Studebaker might have spelled the end of that marque, it...
RWB 1970 AMC AMX for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This beauty is powered by a 401 CID V8 and backed by a very unique Turbo 400 automatic transmission. It is unique because it ...
This or That shifts into a different gear this week with a couple of spritely small-block performance cars from the early Seventies: a 1971 AMC Hornet SC/360 and a 1972 Plymouth Duster 340. Both of t...
Single-owner 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I’ve decided to finally let my first new car go to another person to enjoy. I have had it for 36 years a...
Single-owner 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I’ve decided to finally let my first new car go to another person to enjoy. I have had it for 36 years a...
Documented 1988 Saleen Mustang for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The car started its journey at FORD, where it was built as a Black with Sand Beige LX 5.0 Coupe equipped with t...
If it’s December, it’s time for PRI week in Indianapolis: the Performance Racing Industry trade show that has to be held in the dead of winter, read: not racing season! And while we’ve got our people...