This Mercedes-Benz L408 G van, for sale on Hemmings.com, entered service with the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Heide-Stadt (Volunteer Fire Department of the city of Heide) in 1969, and for the next 45 years it served the town’s residents as an auxiliary Read more
Photos by Mathieu Heurtalt, courtesy Gooding and Company, except where noted. At some point, we all gotta go to work to pay for our hobbies. In the early 1950s, Colin Chapman paid his bills by putting in days at British Read more
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. After years of working together in limited capacities, RM Auctions and Sotheby’s have made their partnership formal, with the latter buying a 25 percent stake in the former. Announced Wednesday, the partnership will Read more
The 1979 Oldsmobile diesel range. Photos courtesy ProductionCars.com. As the 1970s came to a close, automakers were faced with ever-stricter emission regulations on gasoline engines. Thinking outside the box, GM tasked its Oldsmobile division with creating a range of diesel Read more
Gary has long had a love for Chrysler’s factory-built race cars, so undertaking the restoration of this particular car was as much about an effort to preserve a piece of drag-racing history as anything else.
Filed under: Rumormill, Mazda, Coupe, Performance Autocar is the latest with another rumor about a Mazda RX-7 revival, saying Mazda is planning something “significant” for its 100th anniversary in 2020. Reading between the vague lines, however, we wouldn’t get our Read more
Automakers haven’t shown they’re doing all they can on the security front , and one 14-year-old at a hackathon proved that by accessing a car’s computer after a trip to Radio Shack and a night of soldering. Read more…
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Subaru Subaru is on roll in 2015, producing the 15 millionth Boxer engine this month, and the 14 millionth Symmetrical all-wheel-drive system last month. Continue reading Subaru punches out 15 millionth Boxer engine Subaru punches out 15 Read more
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Sunny (mostly southern) subliminal advertising. All photos are frame grabs from video below. Imagine if you will: It was 1935, and you’d spent your week’s pin money to see the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera, or maybe Read more