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Image via Google Maps. The Badlands of South Dakota don’t exactly look hospitable from any angle, but scanning them from the air reveals areas that look more like the Moon or Pluto than the Earth – barren fields surrounded by eroded cliffs and pockmarked by deep craters. And then, oddly Read more
Say what one will about the aesthetics of rat rods, at least this 1935 Dodge pickup for sale on Hemmings.com appears complete – it has a full interior, windows, exhaust, all those things many other rat rods do without – and functional. And that Deutz diesel makes for an interesting Read more
1935 Packard Eight sport phaeton. Photos courtesy Carlisle Auctions. According to Packard expert Dwight Heinmuller, Packard didn’t build any sport phaeton models on its 1201 chassis for the 1935 model year. The dual cowl body was offered on the higher-end Super Eight and Twelve models, but not on the Packard Read more
Ferves Ranger. Photos by Remi Dargegen, courtesy RM Sothebys. From the side, it looks like the product of a liaison between a Steyr-Puch Haflinger and a Fiat 500. From the front or rear, the compact off-roader’s tiny tires tilt with a comical amount of positive camber, giving it a cartoonish Read more
Photos from Lalique Automotive Art courtesy Mullin Automotive Museum. “Glass has a wonderful substance,” Rene Lalique once wrote wrote. “Everything makes it an incomparable plastic medium in the hands of an ingenious artist, offering his imagination and talent almost limitless scope for discovery.” Lalique undoubtedly had himself in mind as Read more
It’s clean and rust free, it has a five-speed, it looks to be a solid performer and a robustly built hot rod, but we already know some people won’t be able to look past the model name of this modified 1975 Chevrolet Monza 2+2 for sale on Hemmings.com without writing Read more
We hear the complaint all the time – what’s with the music in car videos? why can’t we just hear the sounds of the engines? For those folks, this 16-minute video featuring a bunch of different M-branded BMWs lapping the Nurburgring with zero accompanying sounds, voiceovers, music, etc. should suffice. Read more
Older restorations tend to get overlooked for more recently restored cars or for original condition cars, but they have their advantages too. After all, the major restoration work has already been done and the prime resto-fresh time for shows is past, so the cars should be good to put back Read more
* The Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, which we’ve covered in the past, has been slowly building in size and reputation, as we can see from Mike Mathune’s reporting of this year’s event for Car Guy Chronicles. * On the other hand, could interest in joining and maintaining local car clubs Read more
Every generation has its own idea about which decade represents the pinnacle of automotive evolution. To some, that time is now, with computer-controlled muscle cars capable of delivering 13-second quarter-mile times and 25 MPG off the showroom floor. To others, that time was the 1950s, when automakers wooed consumers with Read more