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Another bit of press release nabbed from 6420 Wilshire.

It’s not everyday we get mail from Beirut, Lebanon, but such was the case the other day when HCC subscriber Dikran Yacoubian wrote me with news of a car he recently found. I love old American cars and am greatly Read more

I bought my ‘83 Pontiac winter beater a month ago, and I hated those heavy, rattly wire wheel hubcaps it came with. I’m going to find a set of Rally IIs for the nicer weather, but while I was running Read more

With this 1954 Opel fire truck currently for sale on Hemmings.com, you’ve gotta weigh the pros and the cons. On one hand, you can’t argue with the uniqueness or the $1,000 price tag – it probably cost more to import Read more

1989 Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32 OK, I made that Ocho part up. But you Skyline guys are free to use it, my little gift to you. With the 1989 R32 series, the Skyline reached new performance heights, led by the Read more

We have our chums at BigLorryBlog to thank for not only visiting the Bovington Tank Museum late last year (see parts 1, 2, 3, and 4), but also for highlighting one of the rarest British military vehicles ever, the TV1000 Read more

Even in Mexico, it’s uncommon to see a tripleheader of Volkswagen Beetles waiting at the same traffic light, despite the “Vocho’s” assured status as a Mexican icon. I grabbed a photo of these three at an intersection along a Puerto Read more

Other than the Sherman tank, I didn’t see many other military vehicles currently on Hemmings.com to highlight for the March Military Campaign. Of the ones I saw, perhaps the most interesting one was this six-wheeled 1952 Dodge Power Wagon with Read more

1985 Skyline GT Passage Twin-cam KRR31 After the success of the R30 sixth generation, Nissan didn’t make many external changes to the new R31 series. But they did introduce new DOHC engines, and while the GT-R wasn’t back in name, Read more

For aficionados of the two-wheel mode of transportation, we bring you a couple of ads from 1970, complete with a stiff jab against one competitor, at a time when most magazines sold page space to companies deeply rooted in four-wheeled Read more