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1986 March 86C. Images courtesy of Barrington Concours d’Elegance. When the seventh annual Barrington Concours d’Elegance occupies the links of the Makray Memorial Golf Course in Barrington, Illinois, one group of cars will likely stand out more than the others. It won’t be waterfall grilles or sidemounts that separate these Read more
1986 Honda CRX. Images courtesy OldCarBrochures.com. The early 1980s were perhaps the golden age of hot hatchbacks and two-door fastbacks, with buyers able to shop the wares of brands like Volkswagen (the Rabbit GTI and Scirocco), AMC (Spirit GT, Eagle SX/4), Renault (Fuego), Ford (Escort GT) and Dodge (Shelby Charger, Read more
While the appliance maker Maytag did indeed build automobiles in 1910-1911, it’s not clear whether the company built kiddie car racers like this 1937 Maytag kiddie car for sale on Hemmings.com. In the days before widespread availability of electricity, however, the company did build the small gasoline-fueled washing machine engines Read more
It’s been long enough now since World War II that many people simply believe that all car sales halted and that all 1942 cars were blackout models. Not so, as we read in the story that Arch Brown (who was around at the time and thus able to give a Read more
The 1980s may be remembered (or forgotten, depending upon your perspective) for a myriad of things, but somewhere on that list is the death of the full size, front-engine, rear-drive American luxury car. By the end of the decade, small was the new big, both in terms of vehicle mass Read more
* The New York City Police Museum every year stages a show of vintage cop cars outside the museum in lower Manhattan. Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car columnist Nick Kurczewski’s preview of the show for the New York Daily News is worth checking out just for the photos that illustrate Read more
The entrants are inspected, lined up, and ready to go. The Great Race officially starts tomorrow as the participants leave from the 40th annual Minnesota Street Rod Association’s Back to the Fifties car show in St. Paul, Minnesota, and rally down the Mississippi River on their way to Mobile, Alabama. Read more
Not too many vehicles in today’s carspotting exercise – a Portal to Texas History photo taken at Dallas’s Love Field airport in 1974, or thereabouts – but sometimes just one oddball vehicle will make up for it. We’ve seen these Oldsmobile Toronado-based airport limos before, but never actually in service Read more
When it comes to racking up concours d’elegance wins and “Best in Show” ribbons, there’s generally no such thing as an inexpensive car. Investment-grade iron is generally what wins, and cars in this category can be priced at stratospheric values. Here’s where thinking outside the box helps: Instead of mortgaging Read more
Photo courtesy Ryan DeCol, Kindig-It Designs. When it came up for sale two years ago, auction copywriters called it the most original unrestored Futurliner known to exist. Many collector car observers could guess that it wouldn’t remain that way for long, however, and indeed that particular Futurliner has since embarked Read more