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The entrants are inspected, lined up, and ready to go. The Great Race officially starts tomorrow as the participants leave from the 40th annual Minnesota Street Rod Association’s Back to the Fifties car show in St. Paul, Minnesota, and rally Read more

Not too many vehicles in today’s carspotting exercise – a Portal to Texas History photo taken at Dallas’s Love Field airport in 1974, or thereabouts – but sometimes just one oddball vehicle will make up for it. We’ve seen these Read more

When it comes to racking up concours d’elegance wins and “Best in Show” ribbons, there’s generally no such thing as an inexpensive car. Investment-grade iron is generally what wins, and cars in this category can be priced at stratospheric values. Read more

Photo courtesy Ryan DeCol, Kindig-It Designs. When it came up for sale two years ago, auction copywriters called it the most original unrestored Futurliner known to exist. Many collector car observers could guess that it wouldn’t remain that way for Read more

Walt Arfons, left, with the rocket-powered 1965 Wingfoot Express. Photos courtesy Goodyear. He was one-half of a pair of half-brothers that dared to challenge the reaches of the Bonneville Salt Flats with insanely powerful space-age thrust. Once partners, they became Read more

Unlike most other commercially-produced assemblages of metal, plastic, rubber and electronics, vehicles have a way of generating lasting emotional attachments among owners. This inexplicable bond can make selling a car as painful as parting with a close friend, no matter Read more