In 1987, to commemorate its 12th overall victory at Le Mans, Porsche assembled a special version of its sports-coupe-for-the-masses, the 924S. Dubbed the Le Mans edition in most markets, here the car carried option code 756 and was officially known Read more
* Finding a low-mileage Boss 429 Mustang in a garage might be noteworthy but perhaps isn’t that extraordinary: Those cars were better used for racing than on the street, and the gas crunches of the Seventies put many of them Read more
CSX2287, on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. Of the six Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupes built, chassis number CSX2287, the first constructed, may well be the most famous. The first car to make the National Read more
Maybe you can’t afford a car that “runs” or “starts” like some fancy millionaire. Maybe you just like the way a jalopy can take stains and scratches without raising your blood pressure. But the novelty wears off when your slab Read more
From Zano Zymurgy, one of our Facebook readers and a longtime fan of our carspotting series, comes today’s carspotting photo, initially labeled “Mainstreet USA.” We knew we could do better than that, though, so we started looking through the photo Read more
Is this brown car fanaticism gone so far that a car can earn points for originally coming in a tri-tone brown even when it’s no longer wearing those earthtones? Or did the builder of this 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 two-door Read more
Photo courtesy General Motors. Legendary SoCal hot rodder, racer and all-around Corvette maestro Dick Guldstrand passed away on September 2 at age 87. A few years back, we featured Dick in our Hot Rod Hero column for Hemmings Muscle Machines. Read more
“Inspiration 911″ consists of three generations of Porsche 911 mounted to posts 24 meters high. On the last day of August, Porsche AG showcased its commitment to the city of Stuttgart by unveiling “Inspiration 911”, a 78-foot sculpture outside its Read more
The Mercedes driven by Theodore Pilette at the 1914 French Grand Prix. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. At the dawn of the 20th Century, automakers knew far more about making race cars go fast than they did about making Read more