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On February 5, a Porsche 936 variant will cross the auction stage in Paris, where Bonhams predicts a selling price between $17,000 and $28,000. While that would be the bargain of a lifetime for a full-size 936, the model in question is a half-scale Porsche 936 Junior, a race car Read more
Photos by the author. This past weekend I came across this “Oldsmobile Complimentary Tape Cartridge,” and for 99 cents, it had to come home with me. We already know that many automakers produced demonstrator 8-Track tapes to illustrate the attributes of their factory and/or dealer-installed tape decks from the 1960s Read more
From our Facebook friend Josh Nixon comes this 1967 photo of Cumberland, Rhode Island, where we see that fins – at least the fold-down remnants of fins – still soldiered on even as the Age of Aquarius and of the domestic super car bore down on the land. Oh, and Read more
Vintage cars aren’t always optimal as daily drivers, but restomods may represent too much of a departure from baseline to satisfy purists. Finding the proper balance of authenticity and drivability can be a challenge, but this 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa, for sale on Hemmings.com, seems to hit the mark. It’s Read more
Kurt in the GTI, doing his best Stig Blomqvist impersonation. Photo by J. Daniel Beaudry. On the power into the first corner, my Volkswagen GTI starts to drift wide, the Dunlop winter tires fighting for grip on the pavement’s mix of ice and snow. Coming off throttle fails to rotate Read more
A Land Rover Series I on the Defender Celebration Tour. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Land Rover is saying goodbye to its iconic Defender 4×4 in 2015, but it’s marking the vehicle’s last year with a series of special events. A new Solihull factory tour, opened on January 27, includes Read more
Editor’s note: Ryan Chirnomas, who provided our coverage of the 2014 Goodwood Revival, is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington DC. In this series, he examines the intersection of those fields by looking at design patents—which protect aesthetics rather than functionality—of the forgotten and forgettable in Read more
While re-reading my copy of Dante Giacosa’s wonderful memoir Forty Years of Design with Fiat, looking for material for the buyer’s guide to the Fiat 600 I was writing for the April issue of Sports & Exotic Car, I re-encountered the following sonnet. Included at the end of Chapter XII, Read more
On our Facebook page, reader Shawn Foster left us today’s carspotting scene showing the town square in Plymouth, Massachusetts, sometime in the 1960s. When exactly in the 1960s, he didn’t say, so it’s up to us to determine the date based on the cars parked along the square here. As Read more
Nope, not stock. Of course, the wheels and BFGoodrich tires on this 1968 Plymouth Barracuda for sale on Hemmings.com gave that little bit away. But it’s no slapdash hot rod either, as we see from the extensive list of modifications and upgrades and the description of its down-to-bare-metal restification. As Read more