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Land Rovers, old and new, on the beach at Red Wharf Bay. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In 1947, a legend was created on a beach at Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey, U.K., when Maurice Wilks, engineering director of Rover, drew the shape of the original Land Rover for his Read more
2016 Ford GT. Renderings courtesy of Ford Motor Company. The rumors have been flying for months, and at a Monday press conference during this week’s North American International Auto Show, Ford laid them to rest: To commemorate the 1-2-3 finish of the original Ford GT40 at Le Mans in 1966, Read more
Lime Rock Drivers Club members test the track’s groomed autocross area. Photos by Rick Roso and Casey Keil. Conventional wisdom says that winter marks the end of the competitive driving season, unless one lives in a place cold enough to offer ice racing, like Norway or Minnesota, or a place Read more
All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt I was in high school when the brochure celebrating the 1991 Mercury Capri was released upon an unsuspecting public, and while my memory of that ancient epoch may be suspect, I think that the models contained within represent a Read more
Never have I considered wintertime to be a good time for a drive-in movie. I mean, isn’t the point of a drive-in to have a theatrical experience in the out-of-doors, under the stars, when it’s nice and warm out? How comfortable do you think the folks really are in this Read more
Bentley’s Continental R grand touring coupe rolled out at the 1991 Geneva Motor Show heralding a new start for the legendary brand, which had for too long been relegated to selling rebadged Rolls-Royces. Like high-performance road-gobbling Bentleys of yore, the Continental R was full-figured: more than 17 feet long, nearly Read more
1899 Ohio Model A, “Old Number One.” Photo from B.R. Howard. Though it has rested in a glass case in Lehigh University’s engineering building for the last 85 years, Old Number One—the vehicle considered to be the very first Packard ever built—hasn’t exactly sat idle that whole time. Students over Read more
Building the 2015 Corvette Z06′s LT4 V-8. Photos courtesy GM Media. Corvette owners tend to be fanatical about their cars, and we mean that in the most positive way possible. In return, GM remains loyal to Corvette owners, offering Bowling Green plant tours that allow buyers to see their cars Read more
All images courtesy of RM Auctions. For the upcoming Arizona auctions, we are going to play a different version of the either/or game, one that is perfectly safe for work. Your spouse needn’t worry about your musings and, well, the money you are playing with is just fantasy cash, so Read more
Cloning a SC/Rambler, though it looks easy on the surface, actually takes some very specific and rare parts, so it’s actually not that simple to build one that’ll fool the experts. Why not, then, build a restomod that looks like one at first glance, but incorporates selected upgrades here and Read more