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Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Maybe you’ve heard of Tim Wellborn, founder of the eponymous Musclecar Museum in Alexander City, Alabama. (If not, former Hemmings staffer Craig Fitzgerald profiled him in the September 2005 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines.) Suffice it to say Wellborn is well known for his obsession with Read more
1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 455 (top); 1973 Pontiac GTO (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That enables us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle into our dream garage on a weekly basis, but with a catch: We can only pick one vehicle from this pairing and Read more
Date: May 1972 Location: 1919 West Seventh Avenue, Denver, Colorado Source: Bruce McAllister, via EPA’s Documerica series in the National Archives What do you see here?
Turbocharged 1976 Ford Pinto for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: While it looks like a typical Malaise Era subcompact on the outside, this wee Ford has a secret under the hood. Yes, that’s right, under the hood is a modified turbocharged 2.3L inline four-cylinder engine transplanted from a Read more
AACA Museum. Photo by Mr. T in DC. A proposed merger between the Antique Automobile Club of America and the AACA Museum that would have put the club, museum and the club’s library under one roof has fallen through and in the aftermath club officials have decided to cancel further Read more
Photos courtesy of the Historic Vehicle Association. It’s hard to think of a car built in the closing years of the 19th Century as “futuristic,” but the 1895 Benton Harbor owned by the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum represents the first automobile built in Michigan, and it accurately Read more
Photos courtesy Forrest Struss. [Editor’s note: This “Reminiscing” story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from Hemmings Classic Car reader Forrest Struss.] My father thought Fords, Mercurys and other V-8s were too fast and dangerous, so my brother’s first car, and later, my first car, was a 1948 Chrysler Read more
Photo by Todd Lappin. Keith Haring’s artwork and design language remained fairly consistent throughout his brief career: simple, representative and bold line drawings rendered with limited palettes. His canvases, on the other hand, ranged from subway walls to jackets to fine china to automobiles and motorcycles. Starting this week, the Read more
Indian Scouts on display at the 2016 Progressive New York International Motorcycle Show. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. Editor’s note: We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Gary Gray, director of motorcycle product at Polaris, and ask him a few questions about the successful revival of Indian, Read more
BMW R nineT Racer. Photos by Kurt Ernst, unless otherwise noted. Media Day at the Javits Center overfilled our plates last Friday with new bike announcements from manufacturers from here in the US and abroad. There was a lot to digest and we’re still digging through some of it, but Read more