We got some immediate and grateful response from readers to the recent story in Hemmings Muscle Machines, illustrated with the photography of Mike Sopko, on bygone drag racing at U.S. 30 Dragway outside Gary, Indiana. (HMM #90, March 2011). Hands Read more
Not just anybody can decide one day they’re going to go racing and show up at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ready to go. No, they need to have a number of things taken care of first, including a Read more
Formula 1 fans were apprehensive a few years ago when plans for a biopic about World Champion Ayrton Senna was announced – it’s been a long time since the last great racing film and visions of Stallone’s Driven danced in Read more
Eight-thousand, five-hundred square feet. And that’s just the total garage space. I think there are football stadiums smaller than that. To get an idea of how much garage space that is, check out the photo in the gallery below of Read more
While the ad for this 1962 M-422 Mighty Mite gives plenty of history on the Mighty Mite in general (some of which we already covered in last year’s March Military Campaign), it gives little information on the vehicle itself, which Read more
Remember, July 8, bring your collector cars to the National Collector Car Appreciation Day celebration with Hemmings at the drive-in. And which films will Hathaway’s be showing that night?
Burt Reynolds? Nuh-uh. Jerry Reed in Smokey in the Bandit 3? Nope. Whether Jackie Gleason himself conceived the turbocharged Trans Am somewhere in between Music, Martinis, and Memories and the early Eighties is uncertain, but we do know this. Given Read more
One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Read more
Yesterday’s Squire video reminded me that I’ve yet to run the above video sent over to us by Ben Pender-Cudlip, featuring another Ford, this one a Z-code 1964 Galaxie 500XL.
Tom Broadhurst over at Bandit Films recently sent over this short film he’s produced on Kyle, a bloke from Victoria, and his 1963 Ford Falcon Squire station wagon. We’re seeing more well-produced videos like this coming out nowadays, and we’re Read more