Small-block Chevrolet V-8-swapped 1988 Pontiac Fiero for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 88 Fiero has a Chevy 350 V8 with a “V8 Archie” installation kit. I bought the car wi...
Andrew Rosen’s 1932 Auburn Speedster. Images by Hemmings Staff and courtesy Richard Skeuse It’s mid-June already and that means that the New Jersey rendition of The Race of Gentlemen has come and gon...
Photo by Aaron Summerfield, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s. It apparently paid to know people who worked at Cadillac during the Fifties. Call ’em up, and whango tango, custom Cadillac delivered to your doo...
1955 Morris Minor Traveller. All images by author. Project cars are inherently a compromise. For more performance, you ultimately give up something that the factory engineers spent countless dollars ...
From the seller’s description: 1950 Mercury 2 Dr. Coupe. Reducing private collection, offering a very nice mild custom Mercury. This well-maintained older body off restoration is equipped with the 25...
Assemble-it-yourself Seventies-style 1969 AMC AMX for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: (Project Car) 390ci with Borg Warner T10 Hurst 4 speed.factory Equipt Go Package with A/C. 6...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Barris-built 1955 Chevrolet kustom for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Historic and legendary car that is fully documented. From Barris book “Kustoms of the 1950s”: “The body fea...
Deuce-framed, Brookville-bodied 1931 Ford Model A roadster pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Quality-built old school hot rod. Runs, and drives great, Very dependable. I...
Southern District of Iowa federal courthouse. Image courtesy Google Maps. An Iowa man who defrauded at least two collector car buyers of more than $45,000 has been sentenced to more than two years in...
Gene Winfield-built blown Ardun-powered 1932 Ford hot rod for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Gene Winfield built 1932 Ford Roaster Hot Rod. It was the centerfold car in the Apri...
Photo courtesy Billetproof. After a decade and more than doubling the number of Billetproof traditional rod and custom shows, organizer and owner Alan Galbraith announced that he’s putting “the world...
This Ford Model T speedster should be out plying the roads but it has insistently been a garage queen since completion. Images by the author. Recently, my Barnstormers clubmate Bryan and I decided to...
The Sherman M4 tank was powered by a variety of engines, but by far the oddest was the 30-cylinder A57 invented by Chrysler. Essentially five L-head inline sixes joined together, the unusual powerpla...
Photos courtesy Carol Crumrine Williams, except where noted. Every now and then, we run something in Lost and Found that nets so many responses our physical and email inboxes literally overflow. Such...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Aside from a few cars built for racing, the National Historic Vehicle Register has yet to include any modified cars, an omission that the Historic Vehicl...
In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa ...
1933 Ford Renaissance Roadster, the 2017 Ridler Award winner. Photo by Marc Rozman, courtesy Detroit Autorama. It may resemble a customized 1933 Ford, but the Renaissance Roadster that captured the 2...
Tom Hanson with his 1932 Chevrolet. Photo courtesy Tom Hanson. Approximately 100 cars ago, I cobbled together my first car – a 1932 Chevrolet. Fifty dollars bought a rolling body, sans engine and tra...
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, a...
Extensively customized 1947 Mercury for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Starting out life with a rust free 2 owner Canadian Black Plate car, this build took over 5,000 man hours ...
Rita, the 1958 Packard roadster created by John D’Agostino and Oz Welch. Photos courtesy Sacramento Autorama, except gallery images by Dan Stoner. It began life as a 1958 Packard Hardtop, and accordi...
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and ...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...