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While narrowing down a location for one of last week’s Hartford carspotting scenes, we had help from a few other photos in the collection Joe Sokola provided us that showed some key overlap. For example, look to the third photo in today’s trio and note the same Sears and cafeteria Read more
Older resto, probably needs a little cosmetic work, but this 1968 Ford Galaxie XL fastback for sale on Hemmings.com still looks sharp in photos and the Q-code 340hp 428 – the largest engine available in the full-size cars that year – as well as a raft of documentation and a Read more
Images courtesy Geoff Hacker. A half-century is a long time for a car to hide out, away from prying eyes and offers to buy it, even longer when that car looks like a jet engine on wheels and graced many of the hot rod and custom magazines of its day. Read more
Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg. Still image from Kickstarter video preview. Peter Gregg was one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s, and with racing partner Hurley Haywood, put the Brumos Porsche team in the international spotlight. A 1980 road accident left Gregg with double vision, ending his Read more
If you’ve been a passenger in an enclosed car or truck more than twice in your lifetime, odds are pretty good that an air freshener was dangling from a radio knob or the rear view mirror. You would have a better understanding of the need if you ever had to Read more
Things in Canada are just a bit different than things in the United States. We eat chili cheese fries, while our neighbors to the north prefer poutine; we like football, they prefer hockey. The same was once true about automobiles, too: Cars sold here were similar to those offered in Read more
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its racing and performance division, TRD, Toyota put together a half-hour look back over TRD’s greatest hits, whether on the track, on the road, or off-road. (via) * A couple weeks ago, we went drag racing in the UK, so today let’s go drag Read more
The good: This 1963 Corvair 95 panel van for sale on Hemmings.com has a good mechanical foundation and everything appears present and accounted for. The not so good: It’s rough, with plenty of rust to contend with and no question that it’s headed for a restoration. The seller is offering Read more
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude Lakester concept of 1970, a combination speedboat and dune buggy ostensibly powered entirely by the boat’s Evinrude outboard motor. Mac’s Read more
If you’d like to get a look at our 1980 MGB roadster, a.k.a. the Project Car with a Heart, here’s a golden opportunity. The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine, has put our little red sports car on display, in anticipation of its sale at auction there this summer. Read more