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Porsche 917-30 Can-Am Spyder. Image courtesy of Porsche. Add another event to your Monterey Car Week calendar. A Tribute to the Can-Am 50th Anniversary Gala will be held on Saturday, August 20, at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, the night before the Pebble Beach Concours. Presented by title sponsors Victory Lane magazine Read more
Seller John Crabtree with a few of his cars. When great car auctions are held, will they inexorably take place on the Great Plains? We’ve got to seriously wonder, because VanDerBrink Auctions has been putting on some serious sales of unrestored cars in that remote region of late. You’ll remember Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Thanks to new U.S. bumper strength and height regulations coming into effect, the 1974 model year brought major aesthetic changes to almost every automobile, and BMW’s cult-classic 2002 was not immune. This model year represented the first time we received the “facelifted” Read more
So we came across this photo on the website of the Champlain Bridge in Montreal, but we can’t figure out for the life of us where the photo was taken. The shadows seem to indicate that we’re looking east, but there’s also the on-ramp in the foreground, the bridge in Read more
America on Wheels museum. Images courtesy America on Wheels. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize at Allentown, Pennsyslvania’s, America on Wheels museum, the institution found itself in financial duress. Enter benefactor Nicola Bulgari who, through his NB Center for Read more
Return of the North Woodward Timing Association? Photo by the author. It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Pontiac, Michigan, was the epicenter of illicit drag racing—often on the access roads of the yet-to-be-completed I-696 Read more
By William Hall. Photos by the author. At the annual Mecum Spring Auction held in Indianapolis each May, you can find many beautiful examples of your favorite classic cars for sale. You can find the car you grew up with, the car your dad had, and the car you never Read more
When you’re hundreds of miles from your destination and in the midst of territory that’s both beautiful and remote, what kind of motorized companion do you want? One that’s reliable, no doubt, and easy to fix if anything does break. One with enough power to get you over the hills Read more
Upon being handed the keys to a brand-new performance car back in the late ’60s, what’s the first thing you’d have done? Lay a long strip of rubber all the way to your buddy’s house? Go straight to the parts store and purchase a pair of Cherry Bombs before picking Read more
Go on, admit it. If you were coming of age as an automobile enthusiast during the 1970s, and were leaving sweaty fingerprints on the road-test monthlies within days after they were printed, you almost certainly read something nasty about this car, someplace. Probably because, in the repetitious void that such Read more