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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – GM’s XP-500, Ford’s Rouge, Tony Arzenta

At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...

Midweek Matinee: Something for Nothing, 1940

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well t...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – the rhomboids, the first Baja 1000, Napoli Violenta

This year’s Retromobile had a special display of what they called rhomboids – cars with their wheels laid out in a diamond pattern – and Goodwood’s videographer was there to get some footage of the u...

Home Built by Jeff – Porsche 911 [video build]

Meet Jeff. Jeff is just a regular Aussie bloke; a guy who wants to tinker with cars in his shed and share his progress with whoever wants to see it. I don’t know his work background but he seems to b...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – wrist twist steering, Town and Country design, Norske Byggeklosser

Crazy, right? Mercury’s Wrist-Twist steering couldn’t have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac’s Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steeri...

Gems of Sebring – A BRP Porsche 964 RSR

There are very few times that I spring out of bed before the sun rises, but when my alarm went off before dawn at Sebring, I was up and ready within five minutes. It was the Friday before the legenda...

Gems of Sebring – A BRP Porsche 993 RSR

There are very few times that I spring out of bed before the sun rises, but when my alarm went off before dawn at Sebring, I was up and ready within five minutes. It was the Friday before the legenda...

Honda launches “Serial One,” an ongoing documentary on the restoration of the first U.S. N600

Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1969, Honda introduced its first U.S. market automobile, the N600 sedan. Developed from the Japanese market N360, the N600 underwent an extensive testing program in the United ...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – 1959 Chrysler lineup, Audi unintended acceleration cleanup, The Stone Killer

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...

Quarter Mile Foundation begins crowdfunding Project 1320

Stills from Project 1320 crowdfunding video. Zero to 265 in seven years might not sound that impressive on the dragstrip, but that figure takes on a whole new dimension when applied to nabbing interv...

Midweek Matinee: Sailing Along, Plymouth style, 1937

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Wilding Picture Productions presents for us today an in-your-face advertisement for the 1937 Plymouth, with no pretense of being anything other than an 11...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Bonneville in 1953, Leo Lyons Mercury, Citta Violenta

We consider them legends today, but the people racing at Bonneville in the early 1950s were for the most part just regular guys looking to go fast. Fortunately, a couple enthusiasts went out there wi...

Ken Block’s Gymkhana 8: Ultimate Exotic Playground – Dubai

Head Hoonigan in charge, Ken Block, has taken his penchant for killing tires and created his most cinematic film to-date. Piloting his world-famous Ford Fiesta RX43, Block decimates its Toyo tires th...

AACA Library aims to preserve its old films with new tech

Still from AACA Library film. With hundreds of deteriorating old films in its collection, the folks at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s library started to investigate how to digitize and pres...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – 1972 Bathurst, Jeeps in Moab, Death Race 2000

Bathurst has to be one of the greatest races that Americans don’t watch. Fortunately, there’s YouTube, where we can get the highlights of many great Bathurst races from years past, including this 25-...

Kickstarter project hopes to document the story of Peter Gregg, Hurley Haywood and Brumos Racing

Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg. Still image from Kickstarter video preview. Peter Gregg was one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s, and with racing partner Hurley Haywood, put the Brumos...

Pontiac presents the Great Breakaway

Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...

Midweek Matinee: Screw Drivers of 1940

Yet another film that could be summed up with “don’t drive like a jerk.” But this one introduces the “screw jay,” which proves that jaywalkers can be jerks, too. All photos are frame grabs from video...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – El Mirage 1946, Oz road trip time-lapse, Beverly Hills Cop 2

Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – El Mirage 1946, Oz road trip timelapse, Beverly Hills Cop 2

Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...

Winter? Not on the New York State Thruway, thanks to the Viking-Cives Tow-Plow

Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...

Designer Steve Stanford named to Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame

Steve Stanford. Photo courtesy Steve Stanford Designs. The Grand National Roadster Show is still a few weeks off, but the 2016 inductees into its Hall of Fame have already been named. Of the four inc...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – GM’s 50 millionth, more from Da Yoopers, Beverly Hills Cop

GM really rolled out the red carpet – literally! – in November 1954 in Flint, when it came time to build its 50 millionth car. Fortunately, the company also made sure plenty of film cameras were roll...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Arsenal of Democracy, Rusty Chevrolet, Burglars

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s Arsenal of Democracy speech, FCA this week put together a video highlighting Chrysler’s contribution to the war effort, which included buil...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – 6×6 Power Wagon, streamlined trailer, Rockford Files

While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Ja...

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