So, you think you’re one pretty bad dude riding that Vespa, Kymco or Honda scooter around town, eh? How about putting your bike where your braggadocio is? The first annual Motor-Scooter Land-Speed Trials are taking place on El Mirage Dry Read more
Go look at used cars nowadays. Whole lotta nothing, huh? And for less than what you’d pay for a used Civic, you could buy this 1968 Cadillac Eldorado and cruise in style and comfort. Sure, you won’t want to subject Read more
Michael J. Barrett is the AACA museum's new executive director. Image courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America We hereby introduce you to Michael J. Barrett, named the new executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America’s museum last week, Read more
Aside from the trinkets and dollar-table treasures I brought back from Hershey this year, I also found this sand-cast club plaque for the Strokers from Columbus, Ohio. While there were plenty of Strokers hot rod clubs across the country, I’d Read more
For all of Jesse James’s celebrity and Monster Garage shenanigans, most people forget that he was – and remains – a serious player in the SoCal hot rod and custom scene, as we can see from this 1952 Chevrolet Styleline Read more
I’d start off today’s HFOD with a plea for the end of the Mustang II’s time as an automotive punchline, but as an AMC nut, I should know better – some things just don’t change, including many people’s perception of Read more
It’s been at least a decade since I’ve seen anybody build a car with a Lenco transmission. Those were usually relegated to race-only cars, and if somebody was daring enough to try one on the street, they’d inevitably pair it Read more
Hm. Very strange. We know that American cars began sprouting quad headlamps like some kind of weird mitosis in 1957, then the following year they were just about universally standard, and we know that varying state laws banned quad headlamps Read more
If you appreciated the MST3K-ization of the GM Motorama video yesterday, then you’ll likely get a chuckle or 10 out of another MST3K video that diskojoe forwarded, in which the boys poke fun at “Hired!” a 1940 Chevrolet sales training Read more
It was just last year that we made a big deal out of the F.A.S.T. (that’s Factory Appearing Stock Tire) Racing Series’ 10-Second Club. At the time that we were preparing the story for Hemmings Muscle Machines’ August 2010 issue Read more