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1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventional wisdom. Last weekend in Austin, Texas, one bidder put a Read more

  Photo by the author. It is well known that before World War II, Ford Motor Company was never a well-organized corporation, and that in the wake of Edsel Ford’s death in 1943, things spiraled so nearly out of control Read more

Kott Motorcycles cafe racer based upon a 1973 Honda CB750. Photos by author unless otherwise noted. Since the plunge in motorcycle sales that occurred from 2008 to 2009, the powersports industry has been building momentum year on year, with sales Read more

While this 1926 Ford Model T lakes modified for sale on Hemmings.com was inspired by the Bo Jones lakes modified, somehow it looks to have better proportions and a sleeker profile. Could be the attention to detail, especially in that Read more

Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Built for NASCAR homologation purposes, Plymouth’s 1970-only Superbird proved to be a tough sell to consumers. By the mid-1970s, most dealers were doing all they could to get these “Winged Warriors” off their Read more