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1967 Mazda Cosmo Sport for sale. From the seller’s description: One of Just 343 Series I Cosmos Extensive, Professional Two-Year, Photo-Documented Restoration Mazda’s First Sports Car and the First Sports Car with Rotary Power Accompanied by Tool Kit, Jack, Owner’s Manual, and Books 982 CC Dual-Rotor Rotary Engine Single 4-Barrel Read more
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up the Turbine cars in 1964 out of nowhere. The company’s turbine program dated back years before Read more
Restoring his 1957 Pontiac Safari for the road probably would have gotten it more use at cruise-ins and other old car gatherings, but Alan Freed had it restored as it was built – as a Hy-Rail, intended for rail inspection – and now uses it for sightseeing trips via rail Read more
Field mouse. Photo by Martyn Fletcher. Last week, I decided that the two-year-old cabin air filter in my truck had served out its useful life and was due for replacement. Swapping it out was an easy job, one that required no tools and just five minutes of my time to Read more
Date: December 1963 Location: Chausseestrasse, Berlin, 1963 Source: Eva Bruggmann, Das Bundesarchiv What do you see here?
1950 Allard J2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1950 J2, chassis #99J1851, is the sister car to the famous Pollard #14 Allard. Tom Carsten, of Pacific NW Racing fame, owned #14 and raced #15 for the owner. The original engine, complete documentation and comprehensive spares package Read more
Photos courtesy Bonhams. One typically didn’t refuse either of the Schlumpf brothers when it came to Bugattis. The collectors amassed their collection of Molsheim’s best because they had essentially unlimited resources at their disposal, but Edmond Escudier didn’t care. Nor did he care that the paint flaked from it in Read more
1922 Essex Light-Duty Truck. Image courtesy of The Bickford Collection. Normally you would not associate fabric-covered C-pillars adorned with landau bars with light-duty pickup trucks from the Twenties; the treatment would suggest the combination more fitting of the luxury car market – no matter the pre-Eighties decade. However, when evidence Read more
The Hemmings Motor News 1932 Ford Speedster. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, courtesy The Great Race. It is time once again for Great Racers and vintage car rallying fans to make their annual pilgrimage to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the three-day Coker Tire Challenge, a cloverleaf-style road rally race based on Read more
By William Hall. Photos courtesy of Doug Schellinger. Many of us have had our car buddies over for backyard barbecues this summer, but none of them resembled the gathering at the home of Doug Schellinger of New Berlin, Wisconsin, president of the Daytona/Superbird Auto Club. What began as a casual Read more