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The ultimate intermediate – that’s the ideal way to describe Ford’s fearsome 427 Fairlane! Flip open the June 2013 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines for the lowdown on this competition-pedigreed steed. But wait! There’s more! From a buyer’s guide on Read more

On April 29, 2004, the last Oldsmobile came off the line in Lansing. The car was a cherry metallic Alero, signed by all the employees at the Lansing plant. During its long history, dating back to 1897, Oldsmobile produced 35.2 Read more

Much like ArtFink’s observation that there’s a Ford Falcon lurking somewhere in just about every street scene from the 1960s, I’ll posit that there’s a Volkswagen Beetle parked outside just about every service station in these 1960s street scenes. I Read more

Though second-generation Oldsmobile 98s (representing the 1948 – 1953 model years) aren’t exactly rare, finding one with (most of) its original paint and less than 27,000 miles on the clock doesn’t happen everyday. The owners of this 1953 Oldsmobile 98 Read more

Photo courtesy GM Media. It built bombers in World War II, Kaisers afterward, and the Corvair in the Sixties. It served both Ford and General Motors, and it remained in operation for seven decades. Yet the Willow Run assembly plant Read more

Photo by Matt Litwin. The first segment of a two-part display of Detroit muscle opened this past Saturday at the Buick Gallery in the Sloan Museum. Located on the Flint Cultural Center Campus in Flint, Michigan, there will be two Read more

Renault R5 Turb0. All images courtesy of Renault Classic. While many enthusiasts associate the Volkswagen Golf GTI with the birth of the hot hatchback craze (overlooking, of course, the Mini Cooper and Cooper S models), the European launch of the Read more

On April 29, 1959, the 50 millionth Ford – a white Ford Galaxie four-door with gold trim – was built in Dearborn.