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Photo by Mike D’Angelo. * Anybody who has worked on a British car has wondered at some point why, when the rest of the world seemed to agree on negative grounds for their electrical systems, the English had to go with positive grounds. It actually makes a whole lot of Read more

The sinkhole on February 12, 2014. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Last month, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, announced that the sinkhole that damaged eight Corvettes in February would be permanently filled, going against earlier plans to preserve a portion of the cavern for permanent display. On Read more

Ah, dens of iniquity, the perfect place for parking lot carspotting: Not only are they always packed, but they seem to always have a pretty good variety of vehicles to check out. Or, at least, that’s the case with today’s pair of photos, which Harry W. Crosby took in June Read more

Full disclosure: This 1971 Volvo 142S for sale on Hemmings.com belongs to Steve Berry, our web manager at Hemmings, but that’s not what makes it a Find of the Day. Rather, the fact that it’s a well-maintained and unrestored car with zero mechanical or body issues and selected performance upgrades Read more

Photos by the author. Breaking land-speed records tends to be a fairly difficult proposition. The multitude of venues for doing so nowadays has opened up the opportunities for record breaking, but has also attracted more racers going after records, ratcheting the speeds up higher every year. So it’d probably make Read more

Sir Stirling Moss. Photos courtesy Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Among the other automotive anniversaries that will be marked in 2015 is the 60th anniversary of Sir Stirling Moss’ towering, record-shattering victory for Mercedes-Benz in the 1955 running of the Mille Miglia, in partnership with the late motoring journalist Denis Jenkinson. Read more

Photography by Mark J. McCourt As he reported last Friday, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine editor Dave LaChance and I took to the road this past Monday morning to begin a two-day, 550-mile reliability tour of New England that culminated with leaving our project MGB at its rightful home: Read more

On the block at Mecum’s 2014 Monterey auction. Photo by Kurt Ernst. (Editor’s note: This column originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the August 2013 issue of Hemmings Motor News. It’s still great advice, which is why we’re running it here.) Believe it or not there are some truly Read more

While we all know of West Wendover, Nevada, as the Silver State’s counterpart to the town closest to the Bonneville Salt Flats, today’s carspotting scene, based on a found slide which we came across on Vieilles Annonces‘s Flickrstream and which depicts the Stateline Hotel and Casino sometime in the mid-1950s, Read more

It’s more than evident that the seller of this 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado listed on Hemmings.com has a real passion for it. Beyond simply stating so (and requesting updates on its condition from whoever buys it), he put together quite the binder full of documentation on it, wrote an exacting description Read more