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In 1990, Ford marked the 35th anniversary of the Thunderbird with a special edition of the range-topping Super Coupe. Finished in black with titanium-colored lower panels, a dark blue accent stripe and commemorative “35th Anniversary” badges, just 3,371 examples were built. Ford was serious enough about preventing counterfeit cars that Read more
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainted, re-engined, and reused incessantly. Compared to the punishing and short service life of a taxi, however, Read more
A 1910 Renault Landaulette. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy the Mullin Museum. La Belle Époque, or “The Beautiful Period,” is generally used to describe a time in Western Europe that stretched from the end of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 to the 1914 onset of World War I. Marked by Read more
2015 Touge California. Photos by Ben Hsu, courtesy Japanese Nostalgic Car. North America has its share of rally events for classic cars, including the Hemmings-sponsored Great Race, the Colorado Grand and the California Mille. While some events allow owners of vintage Japanese cars to enter, missing was an event dedicated Read more
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News. Pop quiz: when was the first MG sedan built? MG sedan! you may say, but MG built sports cars! It’s true, and the first MG sedan — saloon, in the Queen’s English — was one of the first cars to Read more
There’s some downtown revitalization planning going on here in Bennington lately, which probably doesn’t mean much to 99 percent of you, but nevertheless benefits 100 percent of you via these carspotting photos we liberated from one of the planning reports and which originally came from the Vermont Division for Historical Read more
So check it out: The thoughtful original owner of this 1962 Lotus Elite for sale on Hemmings.com thoughtfully disassembled the entire car 50-something years ago, saving its eventual restorer that big time-consuming step. And almost everything has remained with the car in boxes and crates since then, gathering only dust Read more
First-generation 1970 Toyota Corolla. Photos courtesy Toyota. In November of 1966, Toyota launched a new model in the Japanese market, slotting in below the popular Corona. Called the Corolla, it was Toyota’s affordable response to the “motorization boom” that saw Japanese families abandoning cities for the suburbs, following a migration Read more
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car show limited to restyled pre-1952 automobiles, held in conjunction with The Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, Read more
Small parts and hardware organizers like these can be purchased from various sources. Photos by author. If you’ve read my blogs over the past few years, you know that some of them deal with my organizational efforts in the garage to ease the process of completing the multiple smaller projects Read more