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The Rosa Parks bus at The Henry Ford, part of a collection of newly digitized videos by The Henry Ford. A spate of museum programs scheduled for this month aim to explore the confluences of African-American history and automotive history, specifically how black pioneers influenced the cars we drive and Read more
Moving the ’62 Corvette off the Skydome floor on February 9. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In the three years since the February 12, 2014, sinkhole collapse of the Skydome floor at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, two of the eight cars damaged have been restored. Another Read more
From the seller’s description: 1990 Mustang GT 5.0 Coupe 25th anniversary. Car is red with manual trans. Just less than 52,000 miles. Car has never seen snow and very little rain. Garage kept. Bottom is as clean as top. I am original owner. Some part changed out but original parts Read more
Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. [Editor’s Note: Author Gautam Sen’s two-volume biography, Marcello Gandini: Maestro of Design, debuted to high praise and late last month won the Festival Automobile International’s Grand Prize for Most Beautiful Book. For this week’s Hemmings In-Depth, Mr. Sen graciously allowed us to excerpt a segment Read more
1981 DMC De Lorean for sale. From the seller’s description: Stainless steel, dealer-painted Ferrari red w/Grey interior. Five-speed. Near mint condition. This car was brought to the United States in 1992. Windows work smoothly, doors fit tight, engine idles great, exhaust system has no leaks and the car has no Read more
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and Seventies. * There’s only one Predicta, but there have been plenty of scale models of the famous Darryl Starbird Read more
Hard to believe for some, but pickup trucks built in the ’70s are becoming collectible. One of the coolest – yet most overlooked – categories of the era, light-duty trucks are some of the most affordable classics around. And remember: we’re talking about the Seventies, so when you start really Read more
From the seller’s description: This Viper RT/10 chassis No. 00090 was completed at 4:00 p.m. on January 14th of 1993. Believed to be one of the very few carryover Vipers from 1992, she was delivered to her first and only caring owner of 24 years on June 14th of that Read more
Derek E. Moore. Image courtesy National Corvette Museum. After a vacancy that’s lasted “about a decade,” according to National Corvette Museum Marketing and Communication Manager Katie Frassinelli, the Bowling Green, Kentucky, institution has announced the appointment of Derek E. Moore as curator. Moore most recently served as the Crawford Curator Read more
When we published the last “From the parts bin” mystery, reader Carl Pennauchi reached out for some help in identifying a tonneau cover he’d found on a $1 table at Hershey a decade or so back. The vendor was asked what car the cover fit, but his reply was simply, Read more