Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
In 1989, after a 16-year absence, Japanese automaker Nissan revived a legendary performance nameplate from its past – the Skyline GT-R. Built to compete (and win) in FIA Group A competition, the R32 Skyline GT-R was jam-packed full of technology, all designed to make the car faster and better-handling. Under Read more
Shelby G.T. 350, serial number 6S163. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Before Ford’s San Jose plant transitioned its Mustang assembly line from the 1965 to 1966 model year, it supplied Shelby American with 252 1965 Mustang K-Code fastbacks that would form the basis of the 1966 Shelby G.T. 350. Known as Read more
It’s time to seriously consider your summer road trips, and we here at Hemmings suggest that you include a proper state or county fair in your itinerary. You remember: the rides, the livestock, the 4-H dioramas, the fried ice cream, the rigged games, the carneys – and in our case, budgeting Read more
Don White (L) with USAC’s Dick Jordan. Photo courtesy USAC. Beginning in the 1950s, the Mississippi River city of Keokuk, Iowa, arguably produced more top-level dirt-track racers than another town in the United States. The last of the Big Four drivers that Keokuk produced, Don White, has passed away at Read more
The Transaxle Era exhibit. Photos courtesy of Porsche AG. From Porsche’s earliest days, its road-going models used air-cooled engines mounted behind or just in front of the rear wheels. In 1976, the Stuttgart automaker deviated from this formula, introducing a water-cooled car with the engine in the front and a Read more
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try to identify them all, a task that should keep everybody busy for quite some time. Also, Read more
Hot rods and street rods tend to evolve over time — tastes change, better components are released all the time, and builder/owners are almost never satisfied with them as-is — but this aluminum-bodied 1934 Ford roadster built by Boyd Coddington for sale on Hemmings.com doesn’t appear to have changed at Read more
Saab’s 99 Turbo, a possible addition to FIVA’s historic vehicle register. Photo by twchen04. Spurred by the success of the Historic Vehicle Association’s National Historic Vehicle Register here in the United States, the Federation Internationale des Vehicules Anciens has started to consider a similar registry for Europe-based cars, trucks, military Read more
Can-Am cars in the Corkscrew, 1973. Photo courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. How many times do you see two thunderous racing divisions both debut in the same season and, moreover, enjoy wild success along parallel courses? We can’t think of another such example. So 1966 is known as more than Read more
1957 Maserati 250F, the fifth work in the Disintegrating II series. Photos courtesy Studio Oefner. Swiss artist Fabian Oefner sees things differently from the rest of us. Not content to view cars (or in this case, incredibly detailed scale models of cars) as art by themselves, Oefner understands that the Read more