Back when I had dreams of building the CrosRod, one of the engines I envisioned powering the wee beastie was a Fageol flat-8 engine. Built as a boat motor when Fageol owned the rights to the Crosley four-cylinder in the Read more
We’ll start off this week’s FA&4S with a couple more shots from James Belohovek, who provided all the Total Recall photos for us recently. James said his father, Dick, raced jalopies in Southern California in the 1950s and early 1960s. Read more
Sports & Exotic Car readers and blog regulars will recognize Basil McLaren’s name, as I’ve profiled two of his Mazdas and his Opel over the years. The South Africa native started his career with Opel as a teenager, then moved Read more
It’s about time we followed through with a theme week, so it’s all Fords for this week’s Hemmings Finds of the Day. Today’s HFOD, a 1961 Ford Econoline van, will cross the block at the Palm Springs auction in late Read more
A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away? No, wrong movie), reader Greg Allen caught our post on the Boonie Bug and sent in some screengrabs from the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall guessing that the Johnnycab Read more
Back in December, the Feds announced that the $6 million, 207-car collection of Jeffrey Lane Mowen – indicted fraudster, and alleged accomplice/conspirator to attempted murder – would be put up for auction on January 6 in an effort to recoup Read more
Heading out to Scottsdale a couple of weeks ago, the farthest thing from my mind at the time was snapping a few shots of vintage dealership emblems; our main focus was covering the five auctions quickly, yet efficiently. Somewhere along Read more
A couple weeks back, I happened to notice a cover inset photo of an early ‘90s Chevy pickup on a custom truck magazine. Normally, I don’t even flip through those books—slammed trucks on mammoth wheels just aren’t my thing. But Read more
We encountered a little confusion last week when trying to determine the exact basis of the Renault-built six-wheeled Sahara-crossing rigs, and to our rescue comes John Robins, who discovered an entry on the cars in the book “Modern Motor Cars, Read more
The seller of this 1954 Ford Comete Monte Carlo on Hemmings.com didn’t provide much information about the car itself, so we’re left to investigate the Monte Carlo on our own. Built for just one year for Ford France by the Read more