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Does any vehicle more exemplify the Choo-Choo Customs excess of the Eighties than this 1984 Chevrolet El Camino IROC-S for sale on Hemmings.com? It’s got the Camaro nose, of course, and along with that, the wild graphics, the chrome roll bar and add-ons, and plenty of other flash to go Read more

Photos courtesy Goodguys. While pretty much anybody else would start small, the first car show Gary Meadors put together attracted several hundred street rods, and in the decades since, Meadors – who died Sunday at the age of 76 – managed to gather many more than that under his Goodguys Read more

Photos by Bill Hall and Derek Klein. Day 2 started early for the crews. The cross-country expedition from the LeMay/America’s Car Museum to The North American International Auto Show in Detroit has wound east of Bend, Oregon, and is headed for Boise, Idaho. Ahead of us lies the high desert Read more

Photo by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Auctions. Maintaining a list of automotive auction records isn’t exactly easy or straightforward. Every auction house wants to claim a record every time it has an astounding sale, but sometimes those records can come down to splitting hairs: Does the highest price paid for Read more

Earliest proposal by ex-GM designer George Lawson was called the Tin Goose, had pivoting, skirted front fenders. Tin Goose sketches appeared in early ads (below), but later ads showed Alex Tremulis’s updated Tucker drawing. Forget the movie. Forget the legend. Detroit did not put Preston Tucker out of business. What Read more

When I write or read about collectible Lincolns, I end up thinking wistfully about how Ford’s luxury division once produced cars that people aspired to own because, duh, they were Lincolns. In other words, more or less the opposite of the vehicles badged as Lincolns in the 21st Century. High Read more

Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Raw speed, indeed, is the only thing that’ll get a racer to the finish line first – chrome don’t get you home, as they say – but developing a professional image counts for plenty more, as Tony Nancy proved. His roadsters not Read more

Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: The LeMay America’s Car Museum’s Drive Home road trip kicked off Sunday, and all this week Bill Hall will fill us in on the trip’s progress.] The last time I was in a Chrysler 300G, Ronald Reagan was president and premium gas hovered at Read more

In today’s world of meaningless and truly stupid marketing campaigns, it’s refreshing to look back at how the old Detroit PR firms promoted their clients’ products. They smartly focused on the many positive attributes of those products, unlike the ridiculous “hidden” meanings of today’s commercials, which truly have nothing to Read more

Sometimes one really strong aspect of a car can totally redeem it when other features might not look as attractive. Take, for instance, this 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five limousine for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that admittedly could use some cosmetic attention if not a little rust repair. But it Read more