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So what happens to magazine builds after their time in the spotlight? They seem to scatter to the four winds, with fates as varied as possible, but it seems safe to say that few remain as unaltered (from their build Read more

Car #4-1971, the last 1970 Mustang Boss 302 Trans-Am body-in-white delivered to Bud Moore Engineering. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Auctions. Following its 1970 Trans-Am Manufacturer’s Championship, Ford made the corporate decision to withdraw from Trans-Am racing. A parting Read more

The Peter Max Corvettes, prior to their transfer to new owners. Photo by Richard Prince, courtesy of Richard Prince Photography. Last October, we brought you the story of the Peter Max Corvettes, a collection of 36 cars that has proven Read more

The Hispano-Suiza stork. Photo by author. After WWI, all Hispano-Suizas famously carried a “flying stork” radiator cap. Whatever for? Recall Birkigt’s famed watercooled monobloc SOHC aluminum V8 engine with integral heads and screw-in cylinder liners. By the end of the Read more

A Trans Am assists in the selling of oil. Believe it or not, the Pontiac division of GM has been gone for over four years. Road sightings of the last late-models of the brand are becoming fewer and fewer, and Read more

While only one of these two photos of Congress Street in Austin, looking toward the state capitol, comes from the Portal to Texas History with a date (above, stamped February 1967), both it and the one below come from the Read more