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Car Zero, the Series I built as a pilot for the Reborn program. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Any vehicle, it’s said, is only original once. Replace or repaint body work, repair the interior or rebuild the engine, and the term “restoration” applies, even if the vehicle is returned to Read more
True, we don’t do a lot of new car dealership photos in the carspotting series – not enough variety to keep the troops entertained – but used car dealerships are fair game, especially when they’re as populated as this photo, which we came across on the University of Texas at Read more
The Cord 810/812 was certainly one of the most influential designs, both indirectly and directly, as we see from the Oldsmobile Toronado, the SAMCO-Cord, and this 1987 Amaretta Custom Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com, a limited-production, Chevrolet-based, rear-wheel-drive fiberglass car. From the pictures, it appears as though it’s been well Read more
1957 Ford Thunderbird, with the F-code V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Ford’s two-seat Thunderbird debuted in 1955, in direct response to the Chevrolet Corvette. Within a few years, however, the two cars would take wildly divergent paths, but before Ford upsized the Thunderbird for 1958, it ushered the car out with Read more
Photo courtesy Restoration Specialties. David Mihalko Sr., bought his first car, a 1929 Ford Model A, in 1955 at the age of 14. His $35 investment would ignite a lifelong passion for classic cars, and in 1980 the long-time Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) member became the owner of Read more
Photos by Bryan Thompson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from automotive designer and design journalist Bryan Thompson. Bryan is a frequent contributor to Hemmings, and an avid fan of finding obscure and charming tangents in automotive design. You can see more of Bryan’s work at BryanThompsonDesign.com. WHY would Read more
Oldsmobile Fouranado. Photos by Jeff Koch. Hemmings Daily and Hemmings Muscle Machines readers might recall the 1968 “Fouranado” — a one-off Oldsmobile 442 with a Toronado front-drive powertrain — featured in print in the June 2014 issue and online in April 2014 and November 2014. If you’ve been eager, ever since, Read more
Of all the Hartford photos in the collection Joe Sokola supplied us, we only found these three from the Forties. Above, the theater marquee shows two films released in July and September of 1945, and that ticker tape in the streets looks like the remains of a V-J Day or Read more
In case you haven’t noticed, Jaguar E-Type prices have climbed into the stratosphere in recent years, placing the model beyond the reach of many British car fans. Its successor, the Jaguar XJS, remains an attainable (though not necessary inexpensive) alternative, though even XJS prices have been climbing since 2010. This Read more
Photos courtesy RR Auction. Reports had it dismantled as scrap. NASA abandoned its claim on it. Another artifact from the nation’s push to explore the moon had apparently slipped through historians’ fingers. Yet six months later, the mid-1960s Local Scientific Survey Module has appeared at auction with a stamp of Read more