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The now-deserted warehouse. Photo by Paul Sableman. In what’s being called the barn find of the millennium, a batch of more than 4,000 brand-new 1962 De Sotos has been discovered in a warehouse on the western outskirts of Detroit, where they’ve been hidden, untouched, for more than a half-century to Read more

A BMW 3.0 CSL and a BMW M1 on the grounds of Ramapo College. Photos courtesy Ramapo Concours d’Elegance. The inaugural Ramapo Concours d’Elegance took place on the campus of Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey, last June 6. As with the Cars and Coffee events that inspired it, the Read more

Here’s The Inside Track on Olds’ Hottest Number laid out flat. Artwork provided by Automotive History Preservation Society Oldsmobile may have been caught by surprise by the Pontiac GTO in 1964, but for 1965 the Division would retaliate with the new 400-powered 4-4-2. Adhering to GM’s 330-cubic-inch limit for intermediates, Read more

From Alden Jewell comes perhaps the most jam-packed carspotting image we’ve had in a while, one sure to keep y’all busy for days to come, and one that we’re pretty sure we haven’t previously run. There’s no context to it, and some light reverse image searching reveals no details about Read more

After partnering with Britain’s Cosworth Engineering to develop a 320-horsepower, 2.3-liter engine for its proposed 190 E rally car, Mercedes-Benz pulled the plug on the project when rival Audi debuted its soon-unbeatable Quattro. Left with a capable chassis and a willing engine, Mercedes turned to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) Read more

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. When Chevrolet released the newly styled 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe, it did so with the knowledge that a select group of customers would want to take these cars road racing. To make this as easy as possible, it created the Z06 package, which effectively created a Read more

Oscar Davis’s 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring spider. Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy The Elegance at Hershey. Choosing a theme for a concours d’elegance event is hard enough, but choosing a single automobile to represent that theme is harder still. When The Elegance at Hershey organizers decided on a Read more

Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which should by now give us a pretty good pattern to go on for prognosticating what other vehicles could Read more

To some, the appeal of the collector car hobby is bringing a tired car, perhaps just a few skinned knuckles away from being sold for scrap, back from the brink. To others, the allure lies in the drive, not in time spent troubleshooting, wrenching and painting. Very often, one’s ability Read more

In an effort to get us “off the Hartford train,” reader Greg Beaulieu directed us toward Nova Scotia’s online photo archives, particularly the photos that depict downtown Barrington Street in the early Sixties. “It is interesting in that it was the main commercial street of the city until the Halifax Read more