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1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. Photo courtesy GM Media archives. It’s February, and it’s minus 2-degrees outside with twice-frozen crunchy snow blanketing everything. My ears are ringing, my head is congested and I’m on cold medicine. What better time than now to pontificate about cars I’d love to own at some point Read more
As Ford GT40 replicas go, this 1987 Fordiero GT for sale on Hemmings.com won’t fool anybody into thinking they’re buying a P or J chassis – nobody’s trying to say it’s anything more than what it is – but it’s got a lot of the right shapes, it seems to Read more
1958 Porsche 597 Jagdwagen. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. In 1954, the newly expanded German military had a need for a domestically sourced, four-wheel drive, quarter-ton transport vehicle. Bids were solicited from Auto Union, Borgward, and a most unlikely third German supplier – Porsche. While Porsche’s 597 Read more
Jim Travers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2008. Photo by Jim Haines, courtesy IMS. He was one half of the most legendary mechanical combo in the postwar history of the Indianapolis 500. Jim Travers, who partnered with Frank Coon, died earlier this month at age 95. He was still Read more
Our friends across the pond have a wonderful description of disorder, calling it “the dog’s breakfast.” While most $5,000 Challenge installments have a common theme, this one does not. There are sports cars and 4x4s, coupes and sedans, classic cars and those perhaps on the cusp of being classics. Most Read more
Words do not really suffice for this custom trike for sale on Hemmings.com. Fortunately, there’s a video and plenty of photos of it from CAD drawings through the build process and all the way to the show floor, illustrating just what went into it. From the seller’s description: Personal project Read more
Bathurst has to be one of the greatest races that Americans don’t watch. Fortunately, there’s YouTube, where we can get the highlights of many great Bathurst races from years past, including this 25-minute look at the 1972 running, when Peter Brock first won it. * Easter’s coming up, which means Read more
Though Volkswagen Beetles taught a generation of us the joys of the three pedal shuffle, they typically draw mixed reviews among Hemmings readers. Some praise them for their all-season traction, forgiving nature, and ease of repair, while other denounce them for their lack of power, German logic and essentially nonexistent Read more
Those cars from the Baillon barn find collection that went through Artcurial last year were impressive enough in their deteriorated state, but seeing what’s going into the restoration of at least one of them – the Talbot-Lago T26, which showed up in a partially restored state at Retromobile earlier this Read more
A Porsche 911 is pulled from a burned Passport Transport van. Photo courtesy WKRN-TV. On February 15, a Passport Transport trailer hauling a load of collector cars caught fire on I-65 in Williamson County, Tennessee. While it appears that first responders arrived in time to put the fire out before Read more