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Forty miles per gallon shouldn’t be that hard. It shouldn’t require hypermiling, drafting behind semis, super-streamlining your car, or adding a complex hybrid drive system. After all, Austin was able to get that sort of mileage decades ago with cars like this 1953 Austin A30 for sale on Hemmings.com, a Read more

Ford built 6,066 Galaxie 500XL convertibles for the 1968 model year, but the Marti Report included with this 1968 Ford Galaxie 500XL convertible for sale on Hemmings.com documents that this is the only example built in this particular configuration. Factor in the car’s optional 325 horsepower, 390-cu.in. V-8 and claimed Read more

Always look in a car’s trunk when you go to buy it. Sure, it’s not the glitziest or most glamorous part of a car – it doesn’t (or, at least, it’s not supposed to) have all the greasy bits that make the car go vroom, nor can you sit in Read more

If Buick’s Turbo Regal was like finding out that your grandmother smoked the occasional cigarette, the Grand National was the equivalent of finding out that she ran a bordello when she wasn’t hunting down bail jumpers or cooking moonshine in the hills. Bedecked all in black, the Grand National didn’t Read more

As originally purchased, this 1962 Ford Falcon for sale on Hemmings.com – like pretty much every other Ford Falcon built – was considered nothing more than a daily driver, something rock simple and inexpensive and certainly not to be glorified as a collector car. And as we see from the Read more

The Sunbeam Alpine was best known on these shores as a diminutive four-cylinder roadster, though it was most appealing with a V-8 shoehorned between its narrow fenders, wearing a Sunbeam Tiger badge. When Alpine roadster production ended in 1968, the automaker carried on with the name, up-sizing the Alpine model Read more

Favored for their shorter overall length (and better visibility) compared to more conventional designs, Ford’s Cab Over Engine (COE) trucks were a staple on American roads for decades, used for everything from box trucks to fire engines. We’ve seen most variants over the years, and few were as stylish as Read more

Qualifying at La Carrera Panamericana 2013 took place Thursday in Veracruz with the usual Policia Federal presence, as we see from Steve Berry’s photos. Judging from the day’s results, the racing will be rather competitive, with less than a minute separating all but the last four qualifiers. Hilaire Damiron and Read more

They sure must’ve liked their RC Cola in Logan, West Virginia. At first glance, Documerica photographer Jack Corn’s photo of alpine Logan’s Main Street doesn’t appear to be well suited to our carspotting series, but the tight parking and views of mostly car roofs just makes this picture all the Read more

Many old Indy cars out there – the ones that are left after years of abuse on the track, that is – fall into one of two camps: Their histories are known and thus they are celebrated and enshrined in museums; or their histories are unknown and practically unknowable, and Read more