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Similar to the Monte Carlo rally Falcon that came up for sale a couple of years ago, this 1964 Ford Falcon for sale on Hemmings.com has plenty of rally history, including a couple of runs on La Carrera Panamericana, and is set up not as a dust-gathering museum piece, wasting Read more

A 1965 Ford GT40 runs through the Daytona infield at dusk. All photos by Chris Brewer. Editor’s note: We couldn’t make this year’s Classic 24 Hour at Daytona, so we asked Jacksonville, Florida, resident Chris Brewer to cover it for us. Chris is a contributor to the Florida Times Union Read more

Mike Hill’s psychedelic 1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos by author. Old race cars never die. Some get rebuilt to go vintage racing, while others get restored. Then there were those old race cars that got customized with the latest period trends before hitting the streets for some traffic light showdowns.  This Read more

The Michigan Buggy Company – or “Mighty Michigan” as its four-cylinder roadster and touring cars would come to be known – was a perfect example of Brass Era bravura that would ultimately burn out far too quickly. The cars were first built in 1904 and were available for $450. The Read more

It’s inevitable: Pen a story on the latest record-breaking auction price of a competition Ferrari, rare muscle car or restored to better-than-new condition classic, and comments pour in about how the average Joe is priced out of the hobby. While the days of the $500 Mustang or the $1,000 Alfa Read more

You know how you’re often looking at the photos in our carspotting series, thinking you’d like to zoom in even closer to get a better look at the cars and assorted other stuff in the photos? Today, thanks to this Spencer Grant triptych focusing on (and in on) the parking Read more

At first glance, and even after skimming over the descriptions of these two cars, it looks like somebody accidentally re-uploaded the same listing for a black GTO. That’s not the case, however, with this 1969 Pontiac GTO and 1970 Pontiac GTO for sale on Hemmings.com, both Ram Air IV automatic Read more

Photos courtesy Palisades Charter High School, except where noted. On his first day of work at Palisades Charter High School, in Pacific Palisades, California, Dave Riccardi could smell something coming from behind a locked door while touring the campus. It smelled like old oil and grease, shop rags and car Read more

 Cameron Lawrence behind the wheel of his Dodge Challenger Trans-Am car. Think about the volumes of memorable race victories Dodge has been a part of. At the circle track it was Pearson (and others) in the Sixties, and Petty through most of the Seventies. For quarter-mile aficionados, it was the Read more

1956 Corvette. Photos by author. (Editor’s note: This first appeared, in modified form, in the April 2007 issues of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car. It’s still sound advice, which is why we’re reprinting it here.) There seems to be some real confusion among many people in the collector-car hobby as Read more