1965 Pontiac GTO 389 Tri-Power V-8. Photograph Hemmings archives.
The mere mention of iconic engine names of the muscle-car era elicits a positive reaction from anyone who recalls and reveres them. Tri-Power, Ram Air, H.O., Cobra Jet, Boss, Hemi, Six-Pack, LS6, LT-...
Date: April 1973
Location: Crescent Beach, Siesta Key, Florida
Source: Florida Memory
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Drag car hauler 1971 Dodge D700 SM1 box truck for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
This is the first box truck built by Oleynik Body Sales, Inc. (box ID reads SM1) for Sox & Martin Race cars. The truck is a 1971 Dodge D700 413 V8 truck built by Chrysler...
Danny Thompson poses with the crew of the Challenger 2 at Bonneville. Photos by Bubb Lannan, courtesy Thompson LSR.
On Saturday, August 11, Danny Thompson climbed aboard the Challenger 2 at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats and drove the streamliner to a qualifying pass...
Images are courtesy of the Morgan Motor Company; 2018 Morgan Roadster, above
Morgan Cars USA, née Isis Imports Ltd. of San Francisco, California, recently announced the forthcoming importation of at least 80 new Morgan sports cars to the U.S.A. The last year that American buyers...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises.
Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he landed a job with Carroll Shelby, first as a high-performance driving...
Date: circa 1960s
Location: somewhere on the Long Island Expressway, New York
Source: submitted by Nicholas James Randall
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Pair of Subaru Brats and collection of related parts for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
A fellow patron had been collecting and repairing Subaru Brats with his uncle and claims to have had over three dozen over the last few decades. They pretty much scoured...
1929 Lincoln Model L (163B) Cowl Sport Phaeton by Locke; photo courtesy of C.V. Lewis.
It’s time for our second installment of a sneak peek at the 2018 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Again, we’re presenting two vehicles scheduled to be on display within our annual...
1956 Cadillac View Master, built by Hess & Eisenhardt. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum.
There was no shortage of luxury sedan, coupe, and convertible models from Cadillac in 1956, but buyers wanting a luxury station wagon were (mostly) out of...
From the seller’s description:
1988 Lincoln MK Vll Bill Blass Series. Yes ,only 7989 original miles. Original owner purchased this vehicle new.Clear safety in 2017,never winter driven,non smoker , non pets, plush velour seats ( like new ) , always covered and garaged,new battery,...
Hemmings archive photo.
[Editor’s Note: William Knoedelseder’s latest book, FINS: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit, will no doubt make it onto many of our readers’ reading lists. Nevertheless, with the cooperation of...
From the seller’s description:
1946 Plymouth Deluxe Business Coupe, Chevron Blue over gray interior, 80k miles. A Nebraska car nearly all of its life, with a brief period in South Dakota during the time of my ownership. I purchased the car out of a collection and have used it over...
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 activist Jane Jacobs, concerned about the devastating effect LOMEX would have on Manhattan...
Photo by Thomas Geersing.
You can’t save them all, of course. Cars, though made of durable materials like steel and glass, are ultimately impermanent things and all of them — even the ones we cherish — will one day return to dust.
But how quickly?
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Date: circa early 1980s
Location: North Avenue NW, Atlanta, Georgia
Source: Georgia State University Libraries Digital Collections
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Twin-turbo 1991 Autech Zagato Stelvio for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
This car was built by Zagato in Milan Italy for Autech a subsidiary of Nissan. There where supposed to be 104 built but in reality only approx 88 where built due to the fact the car cost...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project.
When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it would go on to eclipse the fame of the band that was to ride in it...
Ford’s 10-millionth Mustang, posed with Ford’s first production model. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company.
On August 8, Ford celebrated the construction of its 10-millionth Mustang (including production for markets worldwide), a Wimbledon White GT convertible with...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society.
Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no different. Prime examples of the imaginative techniques used to sell the...
Date: May 1974
Location: Haro Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Source: City of Vancouver Archives
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From the seller’s description:
1962 Buick Skylark – Original 2-door coupe with just over 30,000 actual miles. All-aluminum 215 cid V-8 with 4-bbl carburetor, automatic dual-path turbine trans, dual side mirrors, power steering, power brakes, power windows and radio delete....
1934 Packard Twelve Individual Custom Convertible Victoria by Dietrich. Photos by Erik Fuller, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s.
Once, it was a prized possession of Ricardo LaCosta II, a prominent attorney (and later judge) from Puerto Rico. Decades later, it served as a...
A 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, one of the cars on the National Corvette Museum’s wish list. Photo courtesy Chevrolet.
The National Corvette Museum (NCM), located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, strives to tell the story of “America’s sports car” through displays of both...
1911 Buick Model 21 Touring (top); 1915 Dodge Touring (bottom). Images by the author.
Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle...
Date: circa 1960s
Location: North 9th Street, Springfield, Illinois
Source: Springfield Rewind, via John Weinhoeft
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From the seller’s description:
2003 Mercury Marauder
One owner. 43,000 Miles. One of less than 7000 produced in black in 2003.
Beautiful car, excellent condition, very well maintained by owner/mechanic who used to own his own service station until he retired. The...
Brandon Anderson. Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum.
Brandon Anderson learned how to drive stick in a 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle, on his family’s property in northern Indiana, when fetching beer for his father’s bonfires. Last month, he...
Jim Clark’s 1962 Lotus Elite Super 95. Photos by Jack Passey, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted.
At the end of 1961, Jim Clark was a promising newcomer to the sport of Formula 1 racing, having finished his first full season in seventh place, one spot...
Porsche 911 Safari! ’59 Dodge Coronet! Subaru SVX! ’75 Chevy Caprice! W123 Mercedes wagon! Photography by the author.
The Matchbox “Gathering of Friends,” held each July in Albuquerque, has come and gone. During the annual sold-out dinner event, the Matchbox team...
Date: March 1977
Location: Market near 20th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source: Frederick Meyer photo, via Temple University Libraries Digital Collections
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Restored 1959 NSU Prinz for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
I have reached 5 toy cars and its time to liquidate one before I start on the next one. This car was an original Rust free California car I acquired about 3 Years ago. The car has undergone a very...
Herb Thomas’s 1952 Hudson club coupe NASCAR stock car. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers.
In 1951, NASCAR driver Herb Thomas switched from Plymouth and Oldsmobile to (primarily) Hudson, capturing his first Grand National Championship the same year. Two years...
1941 Indian 441 Four. Photo by Terry Shea.
Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is best known for its incomparable collection of racing and sports cars, but once per year it plays host to an exhibit recognizing two-wheeled performance and style,...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA.
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” the first prototype for Morgan’s Plus 8, a model devised a half-century ago that...
Date: April 1983
Location: Pike Place, Seattle, Washington
Source: Werner Lenggenhager photo, via Vintage Seattle
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Unrestored 1950 Hudson Commodore convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
This convertible spent its entire life in California until it came to North Carolina about year and half ago. It has been in the possession of Hudson collectors for many decades,...
Photos courtesy John Peterson, National Automobile Museum.
John W. Mackay, unlike many of his ultra-rich contemporaries, wasn’t enamored with the automobile. Then again, not a lot of people were in the mid-1890s, before the invention had yet to prove itself as...
1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic Aero Coupe. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy of the Mullin Automotive Museum.
In 2017, the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, brought six vehicles from its collection to the Monterey Peninsula for Car Week, participating in...
Handbuilt Model T-style cyclekart for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
Model T Cyclecar, similar to cars used in the Grand Prix of Scottsdale, Honda 212 cc (6.5 Horsepower gas motor), Honda 90 rims, dual disc brakes activated by handbrake or pedal. Model T Ford...
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, it’s still worth reviewing this video from 2010 that ran down the three (at the time)...
Restored four-speed 1961 Oldsmobile F85 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description:
The result of a recently completed 3 yr. professional rotisserie, every nut and bolt restoration. Originally a solid and rust free southwestern vehicle. 215 cu in. hp aluminum V/8 and...
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 collapsed house.
* The Department of Justice last month announced a huge bust of...
Photochop by Robert Sanderson.
What exactly do Detroit’s automakers need to do to regain their big behemoth-sized dominance in the auto industry? Not tariffs, according to BARRY, who commented on this week’s Gale Halderman story with his own plan:
All the U....
Date: circa 1964
Location: Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Source: City of Boston Archives
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From the seller’s description:
1994 Mazda Miata M Edition with only 12k original miles! Excellent in and out. Only 3,000 produced. Limited slip diff. 1994 was the first year for the bigger 1.8 engine & other improvements. 5 speed. One of the lowest mile MX5s in the country. No...
1912 Little Roadster Convertible; image courtesy of Robert Little.
It’s been a long 10 months since we announced the featured marks for the 2018 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Since last September, our staff has been putting together yet another stellar field of show...
Photos courtesy Dick’s Classic Car Garage, unless otherwise noted.
Founded in 2009, Dick’s Classic Car Garage has thrilled and educated visitors to San Marcos, Texas, for nearly a decade with a collection that includes Duesenbergs, a Chrysler Imperial that served British royalty...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor
By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II –while a best-seller for the nameplate and arguably the ideal car for its time– had lost a lot of the...
Date: circa 1975
Location: I-95, Miami, Florida
Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage
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