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Here we thought every single Mopar M-body had been used and abused for all the Eighties-era detective/cop flicks, but this 1987 Plymouth Gran Fury for sale on Hemmings.com apparently hid out from Hollywood and thus remains a low-mileage, immaculately kept specimen of a car ready for road trips or perhaps Read more
Image courtesy Google Maps. With hundreds of participants left hanging after the cancellation of this year’s Bonneville Speed Week, organizers of the event managed to secure another location for the annual event, moving it temporarily to the Mojave Air and Space Port, home of the Mojave Mile speed trials. Scheduled Read more
The L79 in a 1966 Chevy II Nova. Photo by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. In 1965, Chevrolet debuted a new performance variant of its 327-cu.in. small block V-8, dubbed the L79. Appearing first in Corvette and Chevelle Malibu SS models (and in Canada, a few Pontiac Beaumont Acadians), by Read more
Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently found himself with some extra time in Indianapolis, affording him the chance to stop by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to check out its Dream Cars exhibit, curated by Ken Gross. Fortunately, he had his camera with Read more
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was a bold upstart in the postwar era, an intriguing partnership between successful industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and veteran auto executive Joseph Frazer that would last from 1946 through 1955. The firm got off to a strong Read more
M4A2(76)HVSS Sherman tank from the Littlefield Collection. Photo courtesy Auctions America. Are museums intrinsically educational? That question may not be as straightforward as it appears, judging from the difficulties the Collings Foundation, which now owns the core of the military vehicle collection assembled by Jacques Littlefield, has encountered in trying Read more
BMW 507 roadster. All photos courtesy of BMW AG. The BMW 507 is arguably among the best-looking BMWs (if not the best-looking cars) ever put into production. Its Albrecht von Goertz-designed body is intimately familiar to fans of the marque, and six decades after the car’s 1955 debut, its design Read more
Bob Ryback’s 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar I. Photos by Jeff Koch. In my usual endeavor of trying to stuff 10-pounds of info into a 5-pound story, the 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar I Buyers Guide that’s in the September 2015 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines ran too long, so we had to cut Read more
All images are from the brochure collection of Mark J. McCourt Yes, it’s everyone’s favorite classic Yuppie dreamboat — the first-generation BMW 325i Convertible! This car represented the first in-house-built BMW convertible in decades, the previous Neue Klasse and first-generation (1977-1982) 3-series convertibles and Topcabriolets having been converted by Baur, a Read more
All images are from the brochure collection of Mark J. McCourt Yes, it’s everyone’s favorite classic Yuppie dreamboat — the first-generation BMW 325i Convertible! This car represented the first in-house-built BMW convertible in decades, the previous Neue Klasse and first-generation (1977-1982) 3-series convertibles and Topcabriolets having been converted by Baur, a Read more