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Reader and Corvette collector Michael Brown might live in Texas today, but he grew up in the town of Hugo, Oklahoma, and shared with us this photo of Hugo’s South Broadway Street, looking north, with 1962 written on the back. “That looks about right, though the newest car I see Read more
Before anybody comments that this 1932 Ford hot rod for sale on Hemmings.com be restored back to stock, consider this: It’s spent more of its history in a modified state, fitted with a Y-block Thunderbird 312 V-8, than in a stock state, so the fact that it remains a hot Read more
Photo by Andrew Stawarz. Land-speed record cars, Monte Carlo rally veterans, cutaway show cars, experimental safety cars, and even factory stock coupes and saloons from all throughout British motoring history pack the floor of the Heritage Motor Centre, leaving just enough room to walk around the cars. Museum officials will Read more
1967 Mercury Comet 202 R-Code. Photos by Justin Shaffer, courtesy of Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. The words “Mercury Comet” and “auction top-10″ are not often used in the same sentence, but when that Mercury Comet carries the desirable R-Code 427-cu.in., 425-horsepower V-8 and shows a mere 2,004 miles on Read more
Year after year, one of our best selling calendars is the one with monthly photos of abandoned, discarded, rusting, dilapidated, crusty, forgotten, and otherwise mistreated old cars and trucks. Something about seeing the old cars without gleaming chrome and shiny paint seems to delight and excite us – maybe because Read more
A VIN-swapped Mini Cooper awaits crushing. Still image from video below. Importation rules regarding vehicles are very specific: only those over 25 years in age may be brought into the United States without compliance to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Importing vehicles less than 25 years old gets exponentially Read more
Perhaps, much like the photos of the junkyard in Newport, Vermont, that we examined a few years back, the photos of this dealership-slash-garage-slash-gas station-slash-junkyard along Route 22A in Fair Haven, Vermont, which we came across on the Vermont Landscape Change program, were taken from a study on roadside eyesores and Read more
Debuting in 1992, the GMC Typhoon SUV borrowed from the script written by the high-performance GMC Syclone pickup, adding more amenities, a rear seat and an enclosed hatch. It, too, offered four-wheel drive and a turbocharged V-6 engine beneath the hood, rated at 280 horsepower and 360 pound feet of Read more
A 1977 Pontiac Trans Am, formerly owned by Burt Reynolds. Photo by Edison Graff, courtesy Julien’s Auctions. Released in 1977, the movie Smokey and the Bandit probably did more to sell Pontiac Trans Ams than any advertising campaign in the brand’s history. As the second-highest grossing film of 1977, it Read more
1956 Ford Thunderbird. Photo by Mark McCourt. The Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance, presented by Gullwing Motor Cars and sponsored by Chubb Collector Car Insurance, has announced the featured marques for its ninth-annual extravaganza, to be held on September 25-27, 2015, in the picturesque Saratoga Spa State Park adjacent to Read more