Cougar number one coming to Carlisle in June
The first Mercury Cougar. Still image from video below. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Lincoln-Mercury introducing the Cougar personal compact, and June’s edition of the Carlisle Ford Nation...
The first Mercury Cougar. Still image from video below. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Lincoln-Mercury introducing the Cougar personal compact, and June’s edition of the Carlisle Ford Nation...
Photo by Bob Heathcote, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. On Tuesday, January 31, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a deal with the Sports Car Racing Association of the Mont...
Steve Kinser. Photo courtesy Tony Stewart Racing. Seven stars representing a variety of racing disciplines have been elected to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America for 2017, their enshrinement an...
Photos provided by Real Deal Steel. When even folks outside of the Rust Belt discover a lack of project-level examples of a particular car without terminal rust, that typically means the market’s rip...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme with an original 4-bbl 350 V-8, factory four-speed M20 Muncie, air conditioning, power steering, power disc brakes, power windows, 1...
GM’s CERV I. Contemporary photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Developed in 1959 as a racing car disguised as an “engineering research vehicle,” GM’s CERV I remained part of the automaker’s collection un...
Photos courtesy Coronado Speed Festival. After years of financial losses and depleted resources, the organizers of Coronado, California’s, annual San Diego Fleet Week have decided to sacrifice the vi...
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
1954 Lincoln Capri, on loan to The Revs from the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Photos by author. From the beginning of December through the end of April, I spend quite a lot of time thi...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
My friends and I loved to watch Starsky & Hutch when we were kids. Cool plainclothes detectives, David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, showing their righteous indignation toward the circumstances that su...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. A year after buying my 1974 Buick, and half a year after getting it back on the road, the old Apollo wears not 50, but three shades of gray primer and still sports an i...
Bobby Unser’s 1968 Indy 500-winning Eagle-Offy. Photo by Zach Todd, courtesy Canepa. Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has a more than 50-year track record of taking on the world and winning. From bei...
The Ken Miles (L), Allen Grant (C) and Dan Gurney (R) Sebring Edition Cobras. Photos courtesy Superformance. From a results perspective, the 1963 12 Hours of Sebring was a disappointing outing for Sh...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 2017 Kissimmee auction featured no shortage of blue-chip muscle cars from collectors like Don Fazell, Jackie and Gary Runyon, Dale Reed and Tim and Pam Wellbor...
From the seller’s description: 1966 Plymouth Valiant Signet Convertible This is a great little car that had a body refurbish in 2006. Since then, the /6 has been replaced witha rebuilt 273 with an MS...
Photo by Tom Kelly. As racers and supporters of land-speed racing at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats prepare to go to Congress with demands for the restoration of the racing venue, the international rac...
Rick Hendrick (L) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Martinsville in 2014. Photo by Andrew Coppley/HHP for Chevy Racing. It’s the opening month of the new year, and that means that NASCAR’s Hall of Fame in Ch...
1970 Oldsmobile Rallye 350 (top); 1971 Pontiac GT-37 (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us,...
Jack Griffith at Amelia Island, circa 2010. Photo by Jim Cowen, courtesy Automodello. If fortune favors the bold, Andrew “Jack” Griffith must have been among the luckiest men in America. After servin...
Pete Chapouris. Image courtesy of SoCal Speed Shop. Who knows how life might have turned out for Pete Chapouris had his chopped and flamed ’34 Ford coupe not graced the cover of the November 1973 iss...
Story by Jack Koobs de Hartog and Jürgen M. Wilms. Current photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Co. Much has been written about the genesis of the AMX/3 program and it is widely reported...
Unrestored 1977 Pontiac Can Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2 Owner, 46k Original / Titled miles,, Fully documented w/ Original Window sticker, Original order form, Origin...
1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom SS 427 (top); 1969 Mercury Marauder X-100 (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a featur...