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It doesn’t take much to turn a run-of-the-mill Mini into a pocket rocket, thanks to the minimal mass these cars carry around with them, and that’s just what the seller of this 1972 Mini for sale on Hemmings.com did, adding a few choice modifications to spice it up. From the Read more
Courtesy Alden Jewell, let’s travel back to late 1950s Philadelphia, where, on the stretch of Chestnut Street between 46th and Farragut, sat Chestnut Used Cars. Many of the used car lots we see in vintage photos are attached to new car dealerships, which isn’t surprising – the parent company would Read more
Illistration by Chip Foose, courtesy Mickey Thompson Performance Tires and Wheels While Craig Breedlove has renewed public interest in the absolute land-speed record, there’s still plenty of activity directed toward a land-speed record that many hold to be the actual measure of the world’s fastest car – the piston-engine wheel-driven Read more
Exactly why Charles Cushman planted himself at the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, on two different occasions in 1965, he leaves no explanation. Typically, he’d shoot just one or two photographs of a scene and move on, but in April – and then again in May – he stood at Read more
Tom Watson of Clovis, New Mexico, asked our help in getting the word out to Hemmings Nation about the recent theft of two of his collector cars – a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 1967 Mercury Cougar GT. Tom owns about half a dozen collector cars altogether, and to Read more
After five years of not driving it, the Dart is now in regular rotation – when it’s up to the task, anyway. There have been a couple of setbacks: a brake caliper hung up, requiring a new one; the carburetor body was loose and full of sediment, and even now Read more
Over on the H.A.M.B., Matt Wilson out in Iowa posted an alert that the salvage yard he works for was recently tasked with cleaning out another, older junkyard that was in operation from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. As Matt described the yard: Most of these cars haven’t Read more
Are Panteras headed for a renaissance? Not only do we hear rumors that a new Pantera is in the works – something that tends to boost the predecessor’s prominence – but we’re seeing fewer Panteras being modified and more of them being treated to careful and thorough restorations, as appears Read more
Considering Chevrolet celebrated its centennial this past week, it’s only appropriate that today’s SIA story, reprinted from SIA #108, December 1988, focuses on a bowtie. Specifically, Arch Brown took a look at the 1950 Chevrolet, examining in particular the Powerglide automatic transmission new to Chevrolets that year as well as Read more
With Porsche enthusiasts ready to sacrifice body parts to own real-deal and concours-quality Speedsters, there can’t be that many still out there like this 1958 Porsche 356 Speedster for sale on Hemmings.com – still in SCCA race trim, complete with roll bar, fender flares and dings and dents. Here’s the Read more