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1936 Cadillac 16 Fleetwood Coupe owned by Bill Parfet of Hickory Corners, Michigan. Photo courtesy David W. Schultz. Each June, the Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) hosts “The Experience” on the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum, located in Hickory Corners, Michigan. More than just a gathering of classic Read more
1990 Ford Taurus SHO. Photo courtesy ProductionCars.com. Launched for the 1986 model year, the Ford Taurus sold a total of 998,702 examples (counting sedans and wagons) in its first three years on the market. Though praise for Ford’s new midsize offering was near-universal, the Taurus didn’t offer much for drivers Read more
The Exterminator, Carlos’s 1955 1956 Chevrolet. All photos courtesy Havana Motor Club. Cubans have a passion for automobiles and motorsports that has been largely dormant since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Though racing was never officially banned by Fidel Castro’s government, the capitalist sport was not looked favorably upon, and Read more
Sure, the old rooming house on Los Angeles’s Main Street being demolished in this photo we came across over on the Huntington Digital Library looks rather dilapidated to begin with, but there may have been another reason for tearing it down: Just a few years prior to the December 1957 Read more
Miss Belvedere in 2009, and as it looks today. Photos courtesy Ultra One. When Tulsa authorities pulled the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that had come to be known as Miss Belvedere from a sealed concrete time capsule after 50 years, revealing a zero-mileage car caked with mud and shot through with Read more
1961 Fairlady Roadster. Photos by Bruce Sweetman, courtesy Carlisle Events. Nissan North America’s Heritage Collection typically resides in the basement of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Off-limits to the general public, the vehicles are kept under cover, parked for storage and not display, and only occasionally shown at Read more
1966 Ford Mustang. Photography by the author. We occasionally tell the owners whose cars we shoot that Hemmings is a gift that keeps on giving. What we mean is this: We usually shoot photos for one of our monthly glossy titles (Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines or Hemmings Sports Read more
This 1976 Mercury Capri II for sale on Hemmings.com left the factory with the 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine, but an early owner opted to bolt on performance upgrades that include a Rotomaster turbocharger, an Offenhauser intake manifold and a Holley carburetor. It isn’t clear how much power this combination adds, but Read more
Before Dodge applied it to its well-known compact car (and today’s front-wheel-drive entry-level car), the Dart name played a part in keeping Dodge competitive as well as defining Dodge in the market during the highly transitional period for Chrysler’s lineup in the late 1950s and early 1960s. What resulted were Read more
Though only sold in the United States for a few years in the late 1960s, the Nissan Patrol has earned a global reputation for ruggedness and capability similar to that of its familiar rival, the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser. Today, some of the best surviving FJ40s are often found in Read more