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Who needs a brand-new SUV or crossover when there’s cars like this 1968 Ford Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com? It’ll do your third-row seating one better with dual facing rear seats, it’s got power aplenty with a four-barrel 390 V-8, and it appears rather solid inside and out, with Read more
CSX2287. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. It faces stiff competition, but then again, CSX2287, one of the six Shelby Cobra Daytonas built, didn’t exactly go up against a bunch of fifth-graders when it originally raced. This time, however, CSX2287 won’t wage battle on the racetrack for physical Read more
A Brumos 914/6 at Sebring in 1971. Photos by Bill Warner. For years, the Porsche 914 was the Rodney Dangerfield of the Zuffenhausen product line: among Porsche purists, it simply couldn’t get any respect, despite its success on the racetrack. Perhaps it was the car’s diminutive size, or its relatively Read more
Photo by author. Besides all the usual working items you need to have on hand while restoring old cars, such as an endless supply of those blue workshop towels, cheap red rags and that white hand goop, a variety of fasteners will make the project proceed much quicker, and give Read more
Images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt When Pontiac debuted the original Firebird Trans Am in 1969, they created another legend to add to their list of hallowed 1960s performance cars. The Trans Am remained the flagship of the Firebird line throughout the model’s run, and the 1994 version Read more
Given both of their ties to Ford Motor Company during the Sixties, one would have thought Carroll Shelby and Alejandro de Tomaso would have crossed paths more than once, but the two (with plenty of input from Peter Brock) only collaborated on one project that resulted in two cars, one Read more
Photo courtesy the Historic Vehicle Association. The note closed with wishes for a Happy New Year to nobody in particular. The author of the note couldn’t have known whether anybody would even find and read the note; even if they did, he’d probably never meet them, never even know their Read more
The Design Center, part of the Tech Center campus. Photo courtesy General Motors Media Archive. It is, in a word, massive, spreading across 25 primary buildings set on 330 acres of land with a 22-acre lake at its center. Served by 11 miles of road and joined underground by 1.1 Read more
Photos by the author. Some say he sings with the whales and has taught them all the popular show tunes. Some say his steely glare can melt ice cream – the really hard stuff that’s been open in the freezer for months. All we know is that he appeared at Read more
San Franciso, 1906. Still image from video below. Where do they come from, those evil hoards of crazed drivers, seemingly placed on Earth for no better reason than to annoy the heck out of the rest of us? They drive too darned slow, or too dang fast, or cut us Read more