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BMW’s art cars mark their 40th anniversary

Alexander Calder’s 3.0 CSL Art Car. Photos courtesy of BMW AG. If you witnessed it when it happened, you were undoubtedly shocked: On the grid at Le Mans in 1975 was a works BMW race car, a 3.0 CSL, turned into a palette for the modern artist Alexander Calder. It Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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From A to X – all the different cars that could have, and did, become the AMX

AMX/3 pushmobile. AMC photo. Between 1965 and 1981—a relatively short 16 years—American Motors had no shortage of mockups, prototypes and production cars that carried the name AMX. One would think, given that American Motors designers kept appending suffixes to the various iterations, that they had some sort of naming convention Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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The $5,000 Challenge, back to the garage edition

The last edition of the $5,000 challenge upped the ante to $10,000, but the result was a batch of cars better described as “drivers” instead of “projects.” That goes counter to the spirit of the $5,000 Challenge, which was created to demonstrate that affordable cars still exist to get people Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Lola T70 Mk II

Lola built its T70 sports racer in both open-top spider and closed-roof coupe variants, but all Mk II cars left the factory as spiders. This 1966 Lola Mk II coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, is living proof that not all early cars remained in this configuration, depending upon the whims Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Under the radar but over the top: Q-Ships head to auction in Denver

To counter the destruction wrought by U-boats on Atlantic shipping in WWI, the British Navy authorized the construction of “Queen Ships,” commonly known as Q-Ships. Disguised as freighters, these vessels packed ample armament beneath layers of concealment. Like the Q-Ships of old, this 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 and its counterpart, Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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2015 Great Race Recap – Hagerty Trophy Run and day one

The Bomb Squad: Guy and Colby Mace in their 1932 Ford M-1 Racer. Photos by author. Hagerty Trophy Run As reported earlier, in spite of heavy rain, flash flood warnings and a State of Emergency, the Hagerty Trophy Run kicked off the Great Race festivities on Friday, June 19, at Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Forty years later, the Chevette can still get better mileage than many new cars

Photo courtesy GM Media. Something about the Chevrolet Chevette still makes it a perennial favorite among those unimaginative authors who feel compelled to pen “worst car ever” lists more than a quarter of a century after it left production, but the fact remains that more than a million of the Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Chevrolet Yeoman

Somehow, this two-door 1958 Chevrolet Yeoman for sale on Hemmings.com – the most basic station wagon Chevrolet offered that year – still has its original 235 straight-six engine. Even more impressive is that it still has its original three-on-the-tree manual transmission. It’s had a few other updates – wheels, brakes, Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Chevrolet up Pikes Peak, blind man’s drive, Disorderly Orderly

There’s a couple ways to climb Pikes Peak: The auto road, which will host the hillclimb next weekend, and the way they went in a couple of four-wheel-drive 1957 Chevrolet pickups in this Chevrolet promo video. One’s a little quicker, but the other’s a little rockier; both’ll get you to Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Mercury Zephyr Z-7

Plenty of questions surround this 1977 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 for sale on Hemmings.com: Who loved this normally unloved car so much to keep the miles low and to keep it in rather good shape? When was the last time you saw one, especially with the 200-cu.in. straight-six under the hood? Read more

By Mike, 11 years ago

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