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Photos courtesy of Bill Close. Anyone remember The Prisoner? Patrick McGoohan’s short-lived television tour de force entertained and confused viewers across the globe late in the 1960s, initially airing Stateside on CBS. As Number Six, a man who knew too much, kidnapped and trapped in an idyllic village without bars, Read more
What would cause somebody to buy this four-door 1955 Pontiac Star Chief for sale on Hemmings.com and then only put 26,700 miles on it? While we think of it as a cool classic today, neither when it was new nor today would anybody see it necessarily in the same light Read more
* Quite a number of factors account for the popularity of the Studebaker Avanti, from its fiberglass body and powerful drivetrain choices to its development history and association with Raymond Loewy to its resurrection and multiple lives following the end of Studebaker auto production. In this 45-minute documentary on the Read more
Restomodding is so popular in the Corvette world that a cottage industry caters to the stuffing of modern drivetrain and suspension bits under C1 and C2 ’Vette bodies. Purists cringe, but blending the timeless styling of an old Corvette with the performance of a new one definitely seems appealing, if Read more
Photo by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Mecum Auctions. * As part of its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Street Hemi last year, Allpar made sure to speak to as many people involved with the Hemi’s development as possible, including Engine design leader Willem Weertman, street engine tuning chief Pete Read more
Despite the title, this blog is not about a baseball movie starring Anthony Perkins. It’s about something that scares me—computers. I’ll admit it, I’m a computer-phobe. I always have been. I use them to write stories and to find stuff on the web. That’s about it. When they fail at Read more
Patrick Sinn’s 1971 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. In 1989, the death of his father forced Toronto’s Patrick Sinn to return to his native Hong Kong for an extended visit. Suspecting he’d be gone for six months or more, Patrick covered his 1971 Ferrari Read more
Photo by Zak Baudoin, courtesy Edison Concours d’Elegance. So what do you do next once you’ve won just about every major concours event possible? If you’re Joseph Cassini, well, you just start a new concours, and he will do exactly that next October in New Jersey. There aren’t too many Read more
The dreary cold and snowbound winter months around here lead to what some call cabin fever, what others call stir-craziness. I argue instead that they just lead to enhanced creativity while we pass the time and try to figure out how to stay warm. Case in point, our infrequent photochopping Read more
All brochure images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt The historic Eldorado nameplate is arguably the most famous of any applied to a Cadillac automobile. From its introduction in 1953 as one of General Motors’s limited-production 50th anniversary convertibles through its last gasp in 2002, this two-door remained Cadillac’s Read more