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Four-Links – Woodward tickets canceled, Packard plant tours, 82-year-old drag racer, Mack B search

Photo by David Conwill. Anybody unlucky enough to get a noise ticket from the city of Royal Oak during this month’s Woodward Dream Cruise is getting a reprieve thanks to one lawyer’s work, according ...

1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire promo film… in color!

Still image from video below. I briefly discussed my interest in the 1962 and 1963 turbocharged Oldsmobile Jetfire in Five reasons why I want these five 1960s GM compacts for the Hemmings Daily back ...

Carroll Shelby’s Ford homecoming – the 2004 Shelby Cobra Concept

2004 Shelby Cobra Concept. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the 1960s, Carroll Shelby and Ford were indelibly linked, but the relationship had soured by the mid-1970s. After a few years of lend...

Four-Links – Walter Rohrl on parts for classics, forums are dying, Lambretta monkey bike, Earhart’s cars

In a recent interview with FIVA, rally legend Walter Rohrl argued for better support of classic cars from the manufacturers. * The image above became widespread throughout car forums not long ago whe...

Remembering the many attributes of the 1998 Trans Am and Formula

Still image from video below. In my near-mid-century mind, it doesn’t seem like 1998 was 19 years ago, but I guess I have to get used to that feeling. The older I get, the more time appears to compre...

From The Reels: McLaren’s “Tooned 50”

In 2013, McLaren celebrated their 50th birthday, and in doing so, animated the history of the marque in Formula One. This Pixar-style series is wonderfully done, chock full of humor, history, and her...

Four-Links – San Francisco’s fire trucks, Mini-based beach buggies, Piquette’s window restorers, world’s tallest gas pump

San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...

The high-style handler: 1976-’77 Oldsmobile 4-4-2

Magazine ad from author’s collection. I’ve always appreciated the 1976 and 1977 Oldsmobile 442’s for their “slant back grille,” semi-fastback roof, chiseled lines, plush interior, and capable suspens...

A 1966 GTO fitted with cancelled ‘8-Lug’ wheels is featured in a Pontiac sales film

Still image from video below. The 1964 GTO appealed to a power-hungry baby-boomer market and easily exceeded its sales projections. A new nose and tail and higher engine output made it even more popu...

A Second Look – The Rooshers 911T in Motion

They say that two is better than one, and we hope our readers feel the same when it comes to StanceWorks posts. We offer a second look at the Rooshers 911T we featured early last week. This time, how...

Four-Links – Ctrl-X, GM FWD platforms, Corvang, Metro camper

Perhaps not the easiest way to remove graffiti from a Moskvitch 412, but a group of street artists in Russia ingeniously turned it into a piece of “disappearing” street art with some clever paint wor...

Four-Links – the 1975 Dadamore, Smokey’s Python, Tom Gale, Jordan sport custom

The Dadamore might never have progressed beyond the drawings of an eight-year-old boy, but it still caught the attention of AMC Canada President Bill Pickett. Old Cars Canada has the full story on ho...

Studebaker: Less Than They Promised

Editor’s Note: For the holiday weekend, we thought we’d kick back and check out this now-30-year-old PBS documentary about the passing of Studebaker. We’ll be back next weekend with more In-Depth sto...

K-swapped EK Civic [video build]

I’ve been a long-time fan/follower of Pete and Dave from Speed Academy, two very entertaining Canadians with a knack for building fast cars (and building them the right way!). This video series cente...

Four-Links – Route 66 Pontiac, VW fire pit, Canadian auto history, Eyes On Design

Photo by Tony Hisgett. Most Route 66 travelers have probably seen – even snapped photos of – the 1968 Pontiac Catalina in Glenrio, Texas. Few, however, probably know the whole story behind the Pontia...

Four-Links – the other Cobras, hashtag manual, assembly diagram, FIA drifts

The Gentleman Racer this week took a look at all the various re-bodied Cobras, either by Ford itself or by coachbuilders such as Ghia. * Will cars soon be relegated to museum curiosities, or will the...

Valentino Balboni drives the boss’s Countach

Photo by Ben Bertucci. Most of us don’t get to drive our bosses’ fast cars. Valentino Balboni, however, is not most of us. As Lamborghini’s long-time test driver, he got some time behind the wheel of...

Four-Links – Bandit film locations, Import Carlisle, Antarctic Velocettes, bridge dangler

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Smokey and the Bandit,” Horsepower Memories went in search of as many original film locations as they could find in the Atlanta area. * Former Hemmings Sports an...

Four-Links – abandoned in America’s hippest ‘hood, Spartan done, 1927’s fastest truck, Herb Scott

It’s a sunny weekend in June, whattaya gonna do – sit inside and read? Okay, if you’ve got nothing going on in the garage, check out the roadside finds Feral Cars came across in the Highland Park are...

Four-Links – Tom White’s bikes, 2JZ Camaro, the closed car, ‘Yota resto

Tom White collects motorcycles. But his reasons for doing so go beyond mere appreciation, as this Los Angeles Times profile of the man and the collection shows. * Ever since Tokyo Drift, we’ve seen p...

See the 1967 Camaro develop before your eyes in this promo film

Still image from video below. Have you ever wanted to get the inside story regarding how the Camaro was designed and engineered? Now you can by watching this vintage film Camaro, The Car of Today, pr...

From the Reels – The FIA Touring Car Championship – 1986

The FIA's Group A died out in my early childhood, leaving the legends largely to physical media - film and print photos - as relics of the past. We all have our favorites when it comes to motorsports...

Four-Links – Clair Patterson, papercraft, two-wheel-steer motorcycle, Golden Gate Packard

I briefly considered scrapping the entire Four-Links format this week to focus entirely on Lucas Reilly’s longread on Clair Patterson, the chemist/geologist who for decades doggedly pursued the evide...

Have you ever seen a Dare Devil Trik-Trak or Trik-Trak Cross Country Road Rally set?

Still image from video below. I grew up in the 1970s and recall having Aurora AFX and Tyco slot car sets and later slotless car sets like Lionel’s PowerPassers, where the cars could change lanes. Tra...

Four-Links – 911 design study, microcar collection, Sovamag, Otto engine restored

Coachbuilder Hans Leo Senden’s take on the Porsche 911 caught the eye of the crew from Ferdinand at the recent Techno Classica Essen. The phrase “Fred-in-a-shed” caught our eye. * The Crosleykook spe...

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