While the Petersen Automotive Museum has hyped this video that it pulled from its archives a few weeks ago as test footage of Ken Miles in a Shelby Cobra, it’s really so much more than that. In Septe...
Restomod 1955 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This very unique build was rendered by Eric Brockmeyer. It is a real 1955 Ford Thunderbird that has been mated ...
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...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2246, which sold for a fee-inclusive $1.05 million. CSX2246 photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Shelby 289 Cobra may well have been...
The opening lap of the SVRA Charity Pro-Am race at VIR in 2018. Still image from video below. In 2014, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) debuted the Indy Legends Pro-Am race, pairing am...
1965 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2588. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In October 1964, the penultimate Shelby 289 Cobra — and the last example sold to the public — was shipped to Shelby ...
As the 24 Hours of Daytona approaches in a few short months, along with the Daytona 500 — the first race of the annual NASCAR season — chances are you might have wondered, from time to time, how the ...
Ford’s Cougar II concept on display in Dearborn in 2017. Photo by Barry Kluczyk. For our purposes, the word “lost” needs to be defined. Usually, “lost” is a descriptor applied to an object that no on...
1966 Shelby G.T. 350H; all images by the author. It’s presale estimate was set at $150,000 – $200,000. Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine print cycles have dictated that we bid farewell to the 2018 Sc...
1970 Shelby G.T.500 (top; image by Terry McGean); 1971 Plymouth Hemi road Runner (bottom; image my author). That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us,...
The John Tojeiro built AC Ace prototype. Photos courtesy JD Classics. By 1953, John Tojeiro’s reputation for building competitive sports racers was well-established. When friend Vin Davison approache...
1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2328. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Launched in 1962, Carroll Shelby’s Cobras quickly earned a reputation as fast and fearsome in competition, yet not every Cobra delivered turne...
Hugus checking newly arrived and unfinished Cobras in storage in the basement of Continental Cars. The white Cobra in front of Hugus has one of the hand-written cardboard delivery signs with chassis ...
The Gentleman Racer this week took a look at all the various re-bodied Cobras, either by Ford itself or by coachbuilders such as Ghia. * Will cars soon be relegated to museum curiosities, or will the...
Photo courtesy Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show. Racer turned automotive entrepreneur Carroll Shelby died on May 10, 2012, but his name lives on with sports car and muscle car enthusiasts worldwid...
Photo courtesy Charles Rosenblum. As a teenager in a small Ohio town, I had plenty of enthusiasm for cars, but not much exposure to exciting ones. In the early 1980s, long before the internet, inform...
1910 Autocarrier. Photos courtesy the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Best known on this side of the Atlantic for providing the chassis that underpins Carroll Shelby’s Cobra, the history of AC ...
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...
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...
1964 AC Cobra (top); 1965 Griffith Series 200 (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, in an ...
Photo by the author. Though the collector car hobby – and Hemmings, by extension – focuses almost exclusively on older motor vehicles, that doesn’t mean it is or we are bereft of news to report. In f...
CSX2000 crosses the auction stage in Monterey. Photo by Jeff Koch. On August 19, CSX2000, the prototype Shelby Cobra, crossed the auction stage at the RM Sotheby’s sale in Monterey, California. When ...
We probably should’ve run these closer to this year’s 100th running of the Indy 500, but today’s close enough. From Jim and Chester’s Garage come these two photos of a parking lot at the 1965 Indiana...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...