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Head-on shot of the freshly restored Millionth Corvette. Photos courtesy General Motors, unless otherwise noted. The one-millionth Corvette, a white 1992 with a red-leather interior, was on display at the National Corvette Museum until February 12, 2014, when it was dramatically swallowed up by a sinkhole along with seven other Read more
Editor’s note: We’re not in the office today, so we’re running articles from past issues of Classic Car, Muscle Machines and Sports & Exotic Car instead of our usual Hemmings Daily content. This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Sports & Exotic Car. “Awww, Dad, do I Read more
Editor’s note: We’re not in the office today, so we’re running articles from past issues of Classic Car, Muscle Machines and Sports & Exotic Car instead of our usual Hemmings Daily content. This article originally appeared in the December 2009 issue of Muscle Machines. Skipping over the obvious Ferrari and Read more
Editor’s note: We’re not in the office today, so we’re running articles from past issues of Classic Car, Muscle Machines and Sports & Exotic Car instead of our usual Hemmings Daily content. This article originally appeared in the May 2005 issue of Classic Car. You have the front windows lowered Read more
What’s not immediately apparent about this 1948 Ford Super DeLuxe woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com is that, even though it’s been finished off with concours-level quality inside and out, as we can see from these photos, it wasn’t built for concours events with its dual-carb hopped-up flathead V-8 Read more
The Corvair’s air-cooled flat-six engine kind of defined the compact car, but at least a couple times Chevrolet looked into the possibility of replacing it with a battery-electric drive system. The latter of those two experiments came in 1966 and resulted in the Electrovair II and this GM-produced video showing Read more
In 1987, to commemorate its 12th overall victory at Le Mans, Porsche assembled a special version of its sports-coupe-for-the-masses, the 924S. Dubbed the Le Mans edition in most markets, here the car carried option code 756 and was officially known as the Special Edition, though some did indeed come with Read more
* Finding a low-mileage Boss 429 Mustang in a garage might be noteworthy but perhaps isn’t that extraordinary: Those cars were better used for racing than on the street, and the gas crunches of the Seventies put many of them away. Finding one in a German garage is a little Read more
CSX2287, on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. Of the six Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupes built, chassis number CSX2287, the first constructed, may well be the most famous. The first car to make the National Historic Vehicle Registry, the Daytona Coupe earned its racing stripes Read more
From Zano Zymurgy, one of our Facebook readers and a longtime fan of our carspotting series, comes today’s carspotting photo, initially labeled “Mainstreet USA.” We knew we could do better than that, though, so we started looking through the photo for hints to its location. Champlin Oil had gas stations Read more