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Photo courtesy Palmer Motorsport Park. Traditionally, the town of Palmer in central Massachusetts has been associated with large-scale powered transportation; it calls itself “One town, seven railroads.” The definition of powering through Palmer is bound to change, however. A new track-day locale, Palmer Motorsports Park, completed its initial season of Read more
Scans taken from Porsche Turbo. Say the words Porsche and turbo, and most enthusiasts will conjure up images of the 911-based Porsche 930, or its racing equivalents, the Porsche 934 and 935. The history of forced-induction Porsches goes back far earlier than this, as author Randy Leffingwell details in Porsche Read more
I think it’s high time we start getting nostalgic for late Eighties and early Nineties trends: Things like hard pastel paint schemes and giving built and hot-rodded vehicles names like “TUFF ENUF.” And many of those trends are all wrapped up in this 1970 Volkswagen Baja Bug for sale on Read more
By now, we’ve probably all seen “The World’s Fastest Indian,” the story of New Zealander Burt Munro’s quest to set a land-speed record at Bonneville, but to get an idea of how closely that film hewed to reality, check out “Offerings to the God of Speed,” a short documentary in Read more
Of course nobody buys and drives a Corvette to just fit in, to just flow with traffic. Corvettes are for sticking out like a peacock among poultry, for saying “Hey, everybody! Look this way!” so and few Corvettes say that better than a Greenwood-bodied example like this 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Read more
It seems an oxymoron to craft a bigger Mini (looking at you, BMW…), but that’s what a group of schoolchildren did in the Seventies, creating a system that added a second rear axle and additional space that lunchbox latches onto the back of a Mini, as Jeroen Booij at Maximum Read more
In America, the day after Thanksgiving has come to be symbolized by chaotic scenes of shoppers scrambling for discounted television sets and electronics, all in the name of joyous holiday giving. At the opposite extreme are those of us who’d rather face water boarding than a shopping mall on the Read more
From the Impounded Tumblog comes this LIFE magazine photo of Massillon, Ohio, from August 1966. The road signs should have helped us pick out the exact location, but Route 30 and State Route 21 don’t seem to intersect in such a location. But, as we discovered from poking around a Read more
If there’s one thing we’ve learned combing through classifieds upon classifieds to choose these finds of the day, it’s that first appearances can be deceiving. Take this 1962 Studebaker Daytona for sale on Hemmings.com, for instance: Northeasterners typically tend not to expect much from a largely original and unrestored Studebaker Read more
Photos courtesy Bonhams.com. In 1964, a sleek Kamm-tailed fastback coupe, based upon a British roadster infused with American V-8 power by Carroll Shelby, made its debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. One might assume the car referenced is the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, but the same sentence holds Read more