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Don’t let the big knobbies fool you: This 1962 International Scout 80 for sale on Hemmings.com ain’t really all that big, though it’s just about the right size for most of the tasks light-duty pickups are pressed into nowadays: running around town, carrying maybe a push mower or couple bags Read more
Richie Whalen (car 54B) lines up against a competitor. Before there were sanctioning bodies, trophies or even cash prizes, the very first automobile races were likely between drivers wanting simply to prove their car was faster than another. Today, such a quaint ideal is all but absent from the high-dollar, Read more
You may remember how a couple of years ago, in Hemmings Muscle Machines, we paid a visit to Richard Petty’s historic compound in Level Cross, just as Hurricane Sandy was hitting the North Carolina coast. This is the home turf of the original Petty Enterprises, where good things in our Read more
Racing on the beach at Wildwood. Photos by author. The beach town of Wildwood, New Jersey, begins the process of shutting down after Labor Day weekend, but one event that raises the community from it’s pre-winter slumber is The Race of Gentlemen, now in its third year. Part carnival, part Read more
If you’re looking for an Italian mid-engined sports car that won’t clean out the savings account, the Fiat X1/9 is a great car to consider. This 1979 Fiat X1/9, for sale on Hemmings.com, comes from a benchmark year for the model as the engine displacement grew from 1.3 to 1.5 Read more
For better or worse, 1958 showed us how elaborate and elephantine American carmakers could design their cars when unbound. Fins had yet to reach their pinnacles, true, but were on their way. Chrome spread like a wildfire. Engines grew more powerful. Cars grew in just about every dimension. All at Read more
Though gone from the market today, it wasn’t too long ago that car-based pickups were a popular option from both General Motors and Ford. The Chevrolet El Camino is arguably better known today, but it was the Ford Ranchero that hit the market first, debuting in 1957 (two years before Read more
* A group of vintage sketches that resurfaced recently may have been done by Raymond Loewy for Studebaker, but Steve Tremulis at Gyronaut X-1 and other Tucker aficionados believe they’re actually Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s sketches for the Tucker Carioca, Preston Tucker’s never realized follow-up to the Tucker 48. * Read more
Jon Gray with his 1937 Studebaker President. Photos by author. Some see order where others see chaos, or majesty where others see nothing but disrepair. Jon Gray is one of these glass-is-half-full people, as evidenced by the 1937 Studebaker President he rescued from a 28-year garage slumber in 2012. A Read more
From reader Mustafa Uyal, who catches up with us via our Facebook page, comes this late 1960s photo from the roof of the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi showing the length of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, a city we’ve not gone carspotting in for a couple of years. Taksim is, of Read more