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The Cole family poses with their restored 1972 MGB. All photos by Josh Brasted. When U.S. Marine Matt Cole was severely injured serving in Iraq in 2005, his days of maintaining (and his plans for restoring) wife Kim’s 1972 MGB came to a sudden end. Ten years later, thanks to Read more
Production of the 2016 Mazda MX-5 begins in Japan. Photos courtesy Mazda Motor Corporation. On Thursday, March 5, Mazda’s Ujina Plant Number 1 in Hiroshima, Japan, began production of the company’s fourth-generation MX-5, best known to North American fans as the Mazda Miata. Initial production will go exclusively to the Read more
First-generation Camaro analysis by Ed Welburn. Images courtesy General Motors. With a new Chevrolet Camaro poised for introduction in the coming months, GM wants to keep the model fresh in the eyes of consumers until the sixth-generation car takes its bow. One innovative way to do so is to look Read more
It’s time to not only swing back around to my hometown for today’s carspotting photo, but also to visit the shop of a hometown hero, Jeg Coughlin, founder of Jeg’s Automotive. Even without the number painted above the door, we already know that Coughlin started the company in 1960 on Read more
Volkswagen’s DoKa (short for DoppelKabine, or double cabin) pickups have a small but loyal following in the United States, enhanced, perhaps, by their forbidden fruit, not-recently-imported-here status. That forces prospective buyers to shop offshore, importing examples built prior to 1990, until the occasional clean example surfaces on these shores. This Read more
Photo by BrotherMagneto. Unable to get their anti-corn ethanol legislation included as a rider on an unrelated bill earlier this year, two U.S. senators have now re-introduced it as a standalone bill aimed at rolling back portions of the Renewable Fuel Standard, joining at least four other pieces of legislation Read more
1927 Royal Enfield 500. Photos courtesy Webbs Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Royal Enfield has enjoyed success as a motorcycle manufacturer in India since 1955, but the storied British brand with roots to the 19th century built its last motorcycle in England in 1970. Though manufacturing will remain in India for Read more
Photos courtesy GM Media. While researching our recent story on the 50th anniversary of the Mark IV big-block Chevrolet V-8, we came across something odd, something we’d never seen before – and it appears not many other people had seen it before either. Two photos in the GM Media database Read more
Still images captured from video below. An institution, to be sure, the All-American Soap Box Derby in 1936 constituted “the greatest amateur sporting event in the world,” according to the narrator. An impressive accomplishment, given that it was established only two years earlier. That may explain how it rated early Read more
Every now and then, Volkswagen ads of the 1960s actually made for some pretty good carspotting. Chalk it up to the fact that VW wasn’t ashamed to put competitors’ cars in their ads – in fact, they seemed to go out of their way to do so in order to Read more