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Hold up, hold up, hold up there a moment. In Wednesday’s story on the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame inductees, we included the above photo of Freddy Fryar receiving a trophy after some win, presumably in the truck behind him, but didn’t give it much visibility. It’s a pretty cool Read more
It’s always nice to see a seller including original parts with the car they came from, as is the case with this 1968 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. Even though one owner may not intend to perform a numbers-matching, date-coded spark plug wire restoration, subsequent owners may Read more
Photo by Sali Sasaki. The former Packard plant on Detroit’s East Grand Boulevard is headed to auction. Wayne County has foreclosed on the parcels that make up the remains of the vacant 3.5-million-square-foot complex, and will offer them as a single package at auction in September, hoping to find a buyer Read more
The restored Grosser Werkmeister leads a pack of vintage cars in Salzburg. All photos courtesy Oldtimer Gallerie Toffen. Many first-generation BMW 328 models can claim racing history, but few can match the intrigue-rich East German racing heritage of the alloy-bodied BMW 328 “Grosser Werkmeister,” a Cold War relic that was Read more
Charles Barrett. Photos courtesy Georgia Racing Hall of Fame. The red clay and hills of Georgia assured its legacy as a stock car homeland, ranging from the bootlegging years until today. But the latest inductees into the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, just announced, reveal that Peachtree motorsports involve a Read more
Photos by the author. Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format (i.e., buyer’s guide), the prepared text doesn’t run. Now, thanks to the Read more
You know you’ve got a keeper when your spouse goes looking for your dream car and finds it. In Tim Lotts’s case, his dream car was a Plymouth Road Runner, and his wife came across the 440-powered B5 Blue 1970 Road Runner convertible with air conditioning that he then proceeded Read more
The full-size view of this photo by C. William Brubaker has one of CWB’s treasured Chicago architectural masterpieces, the 800 North Clark Street building, which helps us locate the parking lot (likely at Chicago Avenue and Dearborn Street, now a parking garage) that houses the cars in the photo which Read more
Just when you thought all remnants of the Seventies Street Freak culture had been wiped out by the rush to restore muscle cars in later decades, along comes this 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 for sale on Hemmings.com, still wearing its killer mudflap-girl-inspired fade paint and a couple of five-spokes. Read more
Matthew Wood checks out his freshly restored 1968 Dodge Charger. Photos courtesy Morrie’s Automotive Group. While some restorations can drag on almost indefinitely, the crew at Morrie’s Automotive Group hustled to complete their first restoration for an outside customer, that of a 1968 Dodge Charger, in just five months. That’s Read more