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 The Hille’s restored 1963 Volvo P1800. Photos by Tim Hille, unless otherwise noted. You and your son have just completed a six-year restoration of your cherished 1963 Volvo P1800. QUICK! What do you do next? A) Put a cover on Read more

Thanks to reader Jim Norton and his high school yearbook, we get to see what the parking lot outside Putnam County High School in Eatonton, Georgia, looked like after classes let out on what appears to be a typical school Read more

2016 Ford GT. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1966, Ford GT40s swept the podium at Le Mans, signaling to Ferrari that its era of dominance in endurance racing was officially over. GT40s delivered victories at the Circuit de la Read more

Introduced in 1966, the Fiat 124 Sport Spider became one of the most beloved cars in Fiat’s history. By 1982, however, the design was seen by Fiat as dated and waning in appeal, but Pininfarina, the company that designed and Read more

Photo by dave_7. You can’t fault James Martin for trying. Over the course of four decades, he made no fewer than four attempts to build cars and market his automobile inventions, each successively more unconventional and, ultimately, unsuccessful. The last of Read more

Dick Simon at the 1987 Indy 500. Photos courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The folks who organize the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway have fulfilled a promise: All 33 cars at the June 13 Indy Read more

Since launching the $5,000 Challenge as a semi-regular feature, we’ve routinely received reader comments along the lines of, “Why not raise the limit to $10,000 to get a wider variety of vehicles to choose from?” I’ve tried to protest, pointing Read more