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An unexpectedly big hit: Datsun’s rapid growth through the Seventies

If all you know of the Datsun marque are the Z-cars, then spend some time with this British mini-documentary on the carmaker, which briefly covers its genesis, too briefly covers its earliest cars, a...

Video you need to see: Headquake and the little earth

If you’re reading this and have been poking around YouTube for the last, say, six years or so, there’s a good chance you may have stumbled across Headquake and his amazeballs radio-control scale repr...

WATCH: Muscle Car Of The Week reviews the new Muscle Machines magazine!

Some of the video that Tom Roche and Chris Osburn of Roche Photo Collective captured of our relaunch issue feature car! In our work producing Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine, we tend to meet some i...

Four-Links – Barkas, Amsterdam, magazines, Halifax

During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...

Four-Links – copied Corvette, fuel-cell tractor, cross-country Goodyear, Davison Avenue

Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...

A “uniquely stylish atmosphere”: the 2018 Goodwood Revival, live

Worldwide, the collector car hobby has a cornucopia of events to choose from, but if any of them is most like the Comic-Cons with their increasingly prevalent cosplay, it’s the Goodwood Revival, know...

Four-Links – RV history, air car, IMS Museum, Twini Ranger

Photo by David-O. RVing started long before the advent of the motor vehicle, but as Terence Young argued for the Smithsonian’s newsletter this past week, it “crossed a bridge” in 1915 when Roland and...

Grumpy Jenkins: Rowing gears is everything

Our days get busy, right? And sometimes, at the end of a long one, it’s nice to get a little… let’s say… zen. For some folks, it’s one of those little Japanese desktop sand trays with a wee rake and ...

“The West shows little sign of catching up:” How the Japanese auto industry entered the Eighties

The Bill Moyers video on the state of the American auto industry in the early 1980s — as would any report on the industry at that time — heavily referenced the impact of the Japanese auto industry as...

Four-Links – the origins of jaywalking, the Motel Menace, hearses to Hell, the last Checker(s)?

Jaywalking simply didn’t exist before the automobile, so how did it — both the term and the crime — come about? According to this deep dive into the history of jaywalking, it was actually a concerted...

Fresh new pair of slicks: Behind the scenes at the new look of Muscle Machines

Lots of sweat, a little bit of blood, and buckets of tears went into the new look of Hemmings Muscle Machines. Click on the image for a video of the photo shoot. Hemmings Muscle Machines is starting ...

Four-Links – diesel Dart, Bathurst museum, Land Cruiser Heritage Museum, Land Rover Series I

TheDieselDartGuy showed up on the AACA forums recently to show off the Nissan six-cylinder diesel-powered 1974 Dart he bought new, one of a handful converted shortly after they left the factory to de...

“There’s not very much to look forward to here anymore:” Detroit faces the Eighties

There’s an early 1980s’ CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earli...

Four-Links – ball-stud Hemi, Egypt’s desert racers, lead bromide, Lucky 13

Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...

Four-Links – LOMEX, Talbot ownership disputed, Ferrari dispute settled, V-12 Lincoln

Robert Moses had all sorts of grand plans for Manhattan’s road network, none grander than the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). However, as Curbed pointed out in this 2016 article, the efforts of a...

StanceWorks: Disassembled – Episode 5 [Build Update]

Perfection takes time... or something like that. That's our excuse, at least, for why it's been more than a week since the last episode. However, a full week means lots of progress on the truck. Chec...

Expect big things: a retrospective from the Suzuki Jimny’s 40th anniversary

True, we’re about eight years late for celebrating the Suzuki Jimny’s 40th anniversary (which also means we’re two years early for its 50th), but with a widely heralded new Suzuki Jimny in the wings,...

Four-Links – speedsters buried, fraudsters charged, Mohs memorialized, culture captured

Kudzu, it’s a helluva weed. As The Old Motor reported this week, a contractor in North Carolina found 10 speedsters, trucks, and other old cars buried in the vine when he went to tear down a collapse...

Four-Links – dirty old cars, sunk C/K, Lacey Lady, Wanderer to Gomoh

Should we feel bad about driving old cars for their negative environmental impact? John Simister ponders how to reconcile caring for both clean air and for classics over at Goodwood. * The photo abov...

Four-Links – STP, interstate history, Route 66 for bikes, Anna Isaak

Nearly 55 years ago, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a complaint against Studebaker for pricefixing oil additives through its subsidiary, STP. As Automotive News reported, the de...

StanceWorks: Disassembled – Episode 3 [Build Session #1]

Episode 3! We've been making small improvements here and there, and your feedback has been great. While we've yet to work out the video and audio quirks for Episode 3, we've done what we can in front...

Self-driving Mustangs, the Beast of Turin, Silver Arrows, and a whole lot more: this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed

This year’s 25th Goodwood Festival of Speed just seemed all around the most spectacular such event, whether due to the anniversary, to steadily increasing participation and enthusiasm from car enthus...

Four-Links – pulsejet scooter, bears, Dr. Gundula Tutt, Falcon trike

As if it weren’t cool enough to put a pulse jet on a scooter, artist Randy Regier decided to gin up an entire backstory to the Grand Thrust Star 100, complete with “vintage” photos, a kit, and toy re...

StanceWorks: Disassembled – Episode 1

On Friday afternoon, I turned to Instagram to ask about interest in a recurring youtube series to document progress on my latest build, my '31 Ford Model A, and a bit unsurprisingly, I was met with r...

Four-Links – postal Jeep, land yacht, Silver Volt, Thomas Crown Affair buggy

For the Fourth of July, Summit’s OnAllCylinders took a look at perhaps the only vehicle to exclusively wear red, white, and blue throughout its entire production run: the AM General Dispatcher Jeep. ...

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