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Daily Briefing: Aero Warriors celebrate 50th anniversary; SEMA hones in on off-road market; Utah offers 5,400 new acres for off-road recreation

The Wellborn Musclecar Museum will host the ultimate weekend for devoted fans of the aero cars that rocked the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tim and Pam Wellborn, owners and curators of the Wellborn Mu...

Open Diff: What’s your automotive line in the sand?

GM 200-4R four-speed automatic transmission. Photo by Terry McGean. I’ll admit it: When it comes to weekend cars, I’m stuck in my ways. I prefer small to large, rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive ov...

SEMA to induct Bigfoot builder Bob Chandler into its hall of fame

Photo via Bigfoot 4×4 on Facebook. Poster cars like the strake-laden Testarossa or the bewinged Countach might have defined the ambition of the 1980s, but the vehicle that epitomized that decade’s ex...

NASCAR solidifies its hold on stock car racing with purchase of 12 racetracks

The 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega. Photo by Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images, courtesy NASCAR. According to the Associated Press, NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger agreement with International S...

WATCH THIS: How to do the Musclepalooza return lane

Musclepalooza is always one of our favorite events that we put on, every year. With hundreds of great American muscle cars parked in the lot out in front of the Lebanon Valley drag strip to show and ...

French authorities return seized ute after owner points out it wasn’t built for smuggling

Photo via Travis McKimmie. A little more than a year after threatening to crush one ute enthusiasts’s dream vehicle and throw him in jail for as long as a decade, French Customs authorities instead r...

The six most cost-effective performance upgrades

Photo by stopnlook. If the first car race happened as soon as two primitive automobiles lined up next to one another, then the first performance modifications came shortly after that very contest. Mo...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1993 Volkswagen Corrado SLC VR6

From the seller’s description: 1993 Volkswagen Corrado SLC VR6 Rare back with black leather interior. One owner, that’s me ! Only 12,720 miles as of 04/21/19. Kept garaged and covered. Never driven i...

EyesOn Design to honor Pininfarina designer Leonardo Fioravanti with lifetime achievement award

Photo courtesy Ferrari. While his name might not be synonymous with the masterpieces he created, Leonardo Fioravanti’s work, at least, is familiar to an entire generation of automobile enthusiasts wh...

On its golden anniversary, is now the time to buy a Dodge Charger Daytona?

A 440 Magnum-powered 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona. Photos by Terry Shea. It was, perhaps, the most singular-purpose production automobile ever created, designed to add a mere 5 mph in top speed to the ...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1981 Triumph Bonneville T140

From the seller’s description: 1981 Triumph T140 twin plug head race bike . A lot of history for not much money! Used in the Battle of the Twins races in the early 80’s it was then parked in as used ...

London’s V&A Museum to take a look at how the automobile changed the world

Images via Victoria and Albert Museum. More than a century after the automobile became a staple of daily life, it has shaped modern society both directly (for instance, the rise of the suburb) and in...

VIDEO: 9 most-forgotten muscle cars?

We love Top 10 lists. Even Forgotten 9 lists. Which brings us to this week’s video: are these the nine most-f0rgotten muscle cars? We’ll admit, there’s at least one oddball in there that we may not e...

With Cord revival project stalled, Cord rights to be auctioned off again

Photo by GmanViz. Though Craig Corbell said he got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, he’s decided to drop the project altogether and put the rights for ...

Volkswagen Classic sends off the Beetle in style in Italy’s 2019 Mille Miglia

Images courtesy of Volkswagen AG Volkswagen, Germany’s ever-sentimental automaker, has decided to commemorate the end of production of its current Beetle model by once again entering two of its origi...

Seen in the Sibley: 1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout

The 1909 Maxwell DA in the Sibley Museum at Hemmings World Headquarters in Bennnington, Vermont. Photo by the writer. It’s appropriate to begin with this car because it is the genesis of this series....

As Team Vesco gears up for 500 MPH record, Turbinator inducted into Dry Lakes Racing Hall of Fame

Photo via Team Vesco Racing. Typically, one enters a hall of fame after accomplishing their greatest feats, not before. Rick Vesco and his team, however, were more than happy to accept honors from th...

New exhibit looks at the ‘History, Mythology and Perceptions’ of Harley-Davidson

This 1912 Harley-Davidson Single will be featured in the exhibit. Photo by John Sterling Ruth, courtesy AACA Museum Inc. Harley-Davidson is an American success story, rife with both failure and trium...

Open Diff: Has driving become joyless?

Photo by Eddie Welker. There’s a certain romantic ideal that comes with owning a convertible sports car. Being part of the environment while enjoying the song of a multi-cam engine combine to create ...

“Subtle as a chain-link jock strap”

Photos by Scarab Engineering. The 2019 International Z-Car Convention (ZCON), presented by the Z Car Club of America (ZCCA), is set to host the largest Scarab Z-car reunion in history July 16-20 in B...

Route 66 backers focus on National Historic Trail status as preservation funding program ends

Photo by Thomas Hawk. For 20 years, those looking to revitalize Route 66 have relied on a relatively modest trickle of money from Congress to accomplish their goals — a modest trickle that will soon ...

VIDEO: When haulers roamed the earth

In keeping with the theme this week, we’re totally geeking on race car haulers up in here. Whether it’s an open trailer, a home-made single-axle, a ramp truck, a flatbed, an enclosed deal, or even pu...

POLL: Which Galaxie – far, far away?

Time for another poll, kids! This week, we’ve got the legendary and much-pined-for Ford Galaxie on our bent, little minds. And, since we can’t leave anything well enough alone, we’re thinking about c...

How to change a tire. The hard way.

Neat setup, right? Not with those matching front and rear tires, it’s not! This just will not stand… If you’ve been following along with Hemmings’ digital content and stories, you may have spied a pa...

Richard Sias’s 1968 Dodge Charger design both defined and ended his career at Chrysler

Photos courtesy FCA Media, except where noted. Richard Sias should, by many of his contemporaries’ accounts, be as widely hailed an automotive designer today as any of those contemporaries themselves...

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