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Four-Links – El Gallo, Palm Springs Avantis, Zip Auto Service, Al Bell’s Flying A

Retired racer Tommy Kendall doesn’t know much about who painted a 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight yellow and added a rooster head and tail to it, but he’s not complaining, as this Wall Street Journal st...

How Ford’s budget supercar – the 1969 Cobra – compared to the competition

Video and photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Advertisement images courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Ford’s new-for-1969 response to the budget-muscle Plymouth Road Runner w...

Four-Links – Istanbul Auto Festival, RIP Robert Edwards, round-the-world 2CV, Sab Hori

More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...

Radical Renault: 21st century Alpine A110 enters production

Images are courtesy Groupe Renault. This is a car that, in 25 years’ time, American enthusiasts will be lining up to import. It’s the 2018 Alpine A110, and while it shares its name and lines with the...

Four-links – AWD GTO, RIP Yamamoto, UK collector, APB Squareback

Of the ways to build an all-wheel-drive mid-engine street machine, the folks behind this GTO took a rather unusual approach with a custom transmission and transfer case ahead of the engine. Engine Sw...

Four-Links – Jabbeke TR2, Brooklands scoreboard, Route 66 nostalgia, Luigi Colani

Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...

Mark Morgan | Triplespresso – by Praemio

Our talented friends at Praemio regularly turn out some of the best content to be found in the automotive world. As filmmakers and automotive enthusiasts, their talents shine through, both visually a...

Four-Links – six wild Chevies, Japan Automotive Hall of Fame, the only ’71 Corvette ZR1 convertible, Vector W8

Less common than they once were, concept cars have traditionally been developed by automakers to judge public reaction to possible new models or new technologies. Here, Mac’s Motor City Garage looks ...

Four-Links – the mad genius of Baja, cops in Checkers, Turbine thoughts, murderer on the racetrack

If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...

Four-Links – scrappage scheme Ford saved, Age of Monsters, Nadig, Packard plant in 360

After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...

Soares Film – The Normal People

Daniel Soares continues to offer an inspiring perspective on the small facets of the automotive community in his artistic documentaries from around the country. This month, the Soares Film team has b...

Engineers test the new 1955 Chevrolet against the competition

1955 Chevrolet. Still image from video below. Would you like to see a 1955 Chevy put through its paces on the test track at the GM Proving Ground? How about one pulling 16 other full-size cars to pro...

Should we steal this car?

Still image from video below. Of course, the correct answer is “No!” Yet, in Moment of Decision, producer Sid Davis takes us on a 10-minute and 17-second exploration of the teenage mind and through t...

Four-Links – mini Model Ts, three miles of bricks, SR20DET Mustang II, Shenandoah Studebaker garage

Argentine Ruben Vinyolas crafts some spectacular scale Model Ts with many functioning parts including… a running engine? Mac’s Motor City Garage has more. * The last major renovation to a stretch of ...

Four-Links – Not For Sale America, Mustang’s true origins?, Lego Batmobile, Cole

In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren’t for sale, the things that people for one reason or anothe...

Legends Never Die – Rusty Slammington – The Unkillable BMW E28

It was nearly two years ago that Rusty was finally unveiled: the cover was pulled back and the latest iteration of a car-turned-legend was shared with the world at SEMA, 2015. However, two years of h...

Four-Links – tintype sidecar, the Love Machine, Sally, Brasil to Canada

Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...

The Drivers Meeting – Episode 5

After a short hiatus, we're back! This week, on The Drivers Meeting, we cover everything from Group B rally cars, the RWB craze, for better or worse, and shamelessly new StanceWorks apparel. We invit...

Four-Links – Circuit Safari, cherry Jeep, 101 Dalmatians, Birmingham

Nissan’s doing something interesting in Australia. Rather than running their vintage race cars past grandstands full of spectators, they’re packing the spectators onto buses and running both the buse...

Four-Links – skoolies, Domenici, Seedling Miles, Lincoln Highway

School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...

Four-Links – Burning Man cars, Calsonic Blue, RWD Swift, Huey Long

The mutant vehicles of Burning Man are always good for stretching the definition — if not the concept — of automobiles. Alexandrailer shot a bunch this year. * Japanese Nostalgic Car has the full sto...

A Ford test driver teaches you how to drive… in 1971

Still image from video below. My son recently got his driver’s permit, which means a few nights per week we take a ride with him at the wheel so he can practice for his license test in December. Fort...

The Drivers Meeting – Episode 4

This week on The Drivers Meeting: We're excited to say we've upgraded some equipment. Our video stream is now captured in 1080p, which is a serious step up from the cropped cell phone video we've bee...

Four-Links – Mel Gould, never-was ZR-1, night owls, clown cars

Longtime Hemmings Daily readers might recognize Mel Gould as the man behind the Purple People Eater Crosley that appeared on the cover of the December 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Decades late...

Rediscovering yesteryear’s gas station services and automotive products

They still provide fuel for your car, but over the past several decades, the majority of gas stations have shifted from servicing cars to providing more services for the people who drive them. There ...

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