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1937 Cadillac Series 37-90 Custom Imperial Cabriolet. Photos courtesy Auctions America. In 1937, Cadillac’s Series 37-90 topped the brand’s range, offering luxury, styling, sophistication and effortless power delivered courtesy of a 452-cu.in. V-16 engine. Only 50 Series 37-90 models were built, and of these, only two were Custom Imperial Cabriolets. Read more
The Rennsport Reunion IV. Still image from video below. In 2001, the inaugural Porsche Rennsport Reunion drew fans from around the country for three days of on-track action at Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park, to see legendary racing Porsches and the men who drove them. The event has grown in size Read more
If you read our magazines, you know who Patrick R. Foster is. The longtime Hemmings contributor is a noted authority on American independent carmakers, both through his website, OldeMilfordPress.com, and through books like this one. The title of his latest effort, Jeep: The History of America’s Greatest Vehicle, is as Read more
General Tire advertising image from the 1950s. From the author’s collection. Wow, what a hat! This black & white press release photograph from General Tire – circa 1955 – depicts a female model with a big “tire” hat that mimics the thin black lines shown on the tire’s wide white Read more
It looks like an early spring came to Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1960, judging by the April 6 date that comes along with this photo that hemidave recently posted to the ForwardLook.net forum, showing the town’s Main Street looking west: The trees seem rather filled out, there’s no trace of Read more
In its day, the Mercedes-Benz 500 SEC, like this 1982 example for sale on Hemmings.com, blurred the lines between performance and luxury, offering V-8 power and respectable acceleration, but with an emphasis on comfort, bank vault-like interior silence and composed road manners. Based on the W126 S-Class sedan—rather than the Read more
Dan Gurney (foreground) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company unless otherwise noted. He’s raced in Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR, and various sports car series across multiple decades, and even tasted victory with co-driver Brock Yates in the 1971 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Read more
1987 Buick GNX #85, with less than 50 miles on the odometer. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Meant as a send-off for Buick’s high-performance Grand National series, the GNX was a no-compromise, limited-production muscle car built only for the 1987 model year. Just 547 examples Read more
Alvis TB14. In 1919, the British car manufacturer Alvis was established in the city of Coventry, England. It would produce cars for almost 50 years before Rover purchased a controlling interest in 1965 and scrapped Alvis’s car-building enterprise in 1967 to focus on constructing armored vehicles. The first car produced Read more
Images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Honda automobiles may be completely ubiquitous nowadays, seemingly as part of the American landscape as Mount Rushmore, but it wasn’t always that way. Indeed, what we now know of as an automotive sales powerhouse is a relative newcomer on our shores, not Read more