For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he own...
It might need a little work here and there to get into show-worthy condition, but this two-family 1987 Dodge Shelby Charger GLHS for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be all original and able to hit th...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. At the annual Mecum Spring Auction held in Indianapolis each May, you can find many beautiful examples of your favorite classic cars for sale. You can find the ...
To some, the collector car hobby is about driving a classic car, a fairly broad term that encompasses a wide variety of vehicles and manufacturers. To others, the hobby is about preserving or restori...
Saleen Autosport (later, Saleen Automotive) began producing tuned Mustangs in 1984. By the end of the decade, the firm was building a variety of Mustangs, both normally aspirated and superchaged, as ...
Not every old Jeep has to be modified to the hilt to be cool and capable, as we see from this 1985 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler for sale on Hemmings.com. Of course, any CJ-8 carries automatic bonus cool point...
Two shots of California that bookend the Eighties today. Above, from the Shorpy Fan Tumblog, a circa 1981 look north along Hyde Street in San Francisco with Alcatraz in the background, an iconic cabl...
In 1989, after a 16-year absence, Japanese automaker Nissan revived a legendary performance nameplate from its past – the Skyline GT-R. Built to compete (and win) in FIA Group A competition, the R32 ...
Volkswagen’s Scirocco was a hit with North American customers from its 1975 introduction to its 1989 demise, when it was replaced by the more agile, more luxurious and more expensive Corrado. Clean S...
The first gauzy green signs of spring in the Northeast can turn a past-middle-aged car-magazine editor’s fancy to thoughts of affordable convertibles. Fox Mustang droptops were so prolifically produc...
When the 405 debuted on these shores in 1989, French automaker Peugeot perhaps believed it was the car to reverse its fortunes in the American market. Despite initially offering three distinct versio...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. They’re considered some of the rarest Mustangs ever built, but more importantly they’re also the very first vehicles to arise out of Ford’s Special Vehicle Operations ...
Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced t...
The recovered 1981 Ferrari 308 GTSi. Photos courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach process an average of 500 vehicl...
The most commonly circulated Publix grocery store photos circulating on the Internet show its art deco-ish facades and many-colored Fifties cars in the parking lot, something like this Sarasota shot ...
The Cord 810/812 was certainly one of the most influential designs, both indirectly and directly, as we see from the Oldsmobile Toronado, the SAMCO-Cord, and this 1987 Amaretta Custom Coupe for sale ...
Photos by Bryan Thompson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from automotive designer and design journalist Bryan Thompson. Bryan is a frequent contributor to Hemmings, and an avid fan of finding ...
The car above may look like a Ferrari 308, but underneath its fiberglass replacement body beats the 2.8-liter V-6 heart of the Pontiac Fiero. Don’t call it a kit car, though, since Mera models were o...
Photos courtesy BMW Group Classic. Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently worked with BMW Classic to get us the story of perhaps the largest engine to make its way under the hood of a ...
After partnering with Britain’s Cosworth Engineering to develop a 320-horsepower, 2.3-liter engine for its proposed 190 E rally car, Mercedes-Benz pulled the plug on the project when rival Audi debut...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
From 1983 through 1986, those looking for a Ford Mustang GT with a little extra flash could opt for a Predator Mustang, built by Solomon America and sold through select Ford dealerships. The brainchi...
While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes f...
While on the hunt for photos of his first Buick Apollo, Joe Essid came across a photo he thought would be of interest to our carspotters. Captioned only with “MGM Grand Hotel, Nevada, Oct. 1980” by h...
As Mac’s Motor City Garage wrote this week, 1958’s “An Evening With Fred Astaire” was the first television program recorded on color videotape, a feat made possible in part by sponsorship by Chrysler...