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The last remaining Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. When Ron Pratte announced that he’d be selling his extensive collection at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale sale, it was a given that many of the lots offered would draw big money. Topping that list on Saturday night was the last surviving Read more
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. To most observers, the Special Edition Trans Am in the 1977 Pontiac catalog – the car that would later go on to incredible fame as the Bandit’s Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit – looked pretty straightforward. Screaming chicken, snowflakes, black and Read more
Ned Jarrett at Darlington, circa 1965. Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Ford Racing has kicked off an occasional series on legendary Blue Oval racing heroes at its website, and the first person to be profiled is 1965 NASCAR Grand National champion Ned Jarrett. That was an incredible year for Read more
The Wijnlands Automotive Museum in Joostenberg Vlakte, South Africa. Still image from video below. Editor’s note: Bryan Thompson, automotive designer and frequent contributor to Hemmings, is back with another adventure into automotive oddities. This time he visits South Africa (specifically, “Right, Down the Line, Almost Down Under, and Just Out Read more
Man, what does it take to get the streets plowed around here? One would have thought that New York City’s Department of Sanitation would have been better able to plow at least Madison Avenue – shown here between 97th and 96th streets in a John Albok photo shared by the Read more
Until the hood goes up, there’s not much that gives away the big ol’ whomper under the hood of this 1963 Plymouth Belvedere for sale on Hemmings.com. The paint, the narrow whitewalls, the wheelcovers, the bench seat all give off that sleepy Sixties suburbia vibe, but then there’s that four-speed Read more
1964 Ferrari 250 LM. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. When the 10-percent buyer’s fees were added to the hammer price of the 1964 Ferrari 250 LM sold by RM Auctions in Arizona last weekend, the total reached $9.625 million, enough to set a new record for a car Read more
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. When a sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum last February, damaging or destroying eight cars in the museum’s Skydome, most people familiar with the museum showed primary concern not for any of the eight, but for the 1983 Corvette in the museum’s collection—the Read more
Bob Hinshaw’s 1940 Ford Business Coupe. Photos by the author. Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format, the prepared text doesn’t run in Read more
1954 EMW 327/3, built by East Germany’s Eisenacher Motorenwerk. Photos by author. It may look like a pre-war BMW 327, but it isn’t. It even sounds like a BMW 327, but it isn’t. And although it even shares many of the same body panels and other mechanical bits of a Read more