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Photo courtesy Carlisle Events. Steve Saleen achieved cult hero status in the 1980s and 1990s transforming Mustang street cars into track-day weapons while racking up scores of wins with his race cars in SCCA Trans-Am competition. Among his legions of fans, Saleen is a rock star, though the former USC Read more
Henry Ford Trade School students, 1946. Photo courtesy Ford Media. The recent announcement of the GM Student Corps, a summer job and mentoring program that will provide 110 Detroit area high school students with mentoring by GM retirees and GM interns, evokes memories of a time when at least two Read more
Don’t look now, but it’s British Car Week. In the words of its organizers, British Car Week, now in its 17th year, ”is an annual awareness week intended for owners of classic British cars to get their cars out of the garage and drive them. While doing so, all who are Read more
In preparation for Spokane’s Expo ’74, the so-called smallest World’s Fair, the city transformed its downtown to provide a suitable location for the fair. The Washington State Digital Archives has a number of photos of that process, including these two of the parking lot that used to be where North Read more
Once the Mustang was out of the corral, Ford’s conservatively styled Falcon compact never again drew the same level of attention as its sportier platform-mate. There’s much to be said for understatement, though. Take, for instance, this 1967 Ford Falcon Futura Sport Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. You won’t see Read more
Photo courtesy Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance. Now that every C-3 street car built by Briggs Cunningham’s famed sports car production effort of the 1950s has been located, it’s time for a family reunion of Cunningham cars, which is exactly what author Tom Cotter and other Cunningham owners have planned for Read more
1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk. Studebakers have been out of production for nearly 50 years, but that doesn’t mean restorers can’t find reproduction parts for their South Bend sweethearts. Floor pans, door skins, trunk floors, rocker panels and body mounts are easy enough to find for certain models, and Goodmark recently Read more
Mark Donohue at Pocono, 1971. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. While many racing drivers of the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated mastery of cars in multiple series, few understood the reasons why cars won races as well as American driver Mark Donahue. With a degree in mechanical engineering from Brown University, Read more
The July 2013 Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car cover, with the Alfa and the Triumph, was a long time in the making. I had known about the blue Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider seen here for a couple of years, and was waiting for the right story to put it in. Read more
Given that we came across this 1950s Daytona Beach, Florida, photo over on the blog for the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado survivor roster, there’s at least one Eldorado to be seen in this Technicolor treat, but that’s not all. What do you see here? And what do you suppose brought all Read more