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It probably won’t go viral, but there’re plenty of excellent Truck Norris jokes in derf’s thread about his J10 on the IFSJA.org forums. My favorite so far: Truck Norris doesn’t need oil. It just drives back in time and eats dinosaurs.
Readers of car magazines in the late ’70s and first half of the ’80s will remember a series of Porsche ads called “Consumer Orientation” in a “Series of Technical Papers.” As far as we can tell, they went up to #28, ending in 1986. They covered the 924 and 924 Read more
The library at the University of Illinois at Chicago has just released a series of photographs of downtown Chicago street scenes taken by the Illinois Department of Transportation over the years. Being the IDOT, there are admittedly many photographs of empty intersections, but among them are plenty of the sort Read more
Editor’s note: In recent conversations with crime writer Rose Keefe, we learned that in 2008 she’d researched the murder of Billy Bate, the first man believed to have been murdered in an automobile. She has generously allowed us to share that story, taken from her pamphlet “The Bate Auto Murder.” Read more
This trailer for the 1958 movie “Dragstrip Riot” (curiously missing any shots of a dragstrip) may not have Tom, Crow, and Joel/Mike riffing on it, but that’s not to say it doesn’t deserve the MST3K treatment.
Fans of big-block Ford power are likely familiar with Jon Kaase and his engine-building outfit, which forged its reputation on winning Pro Stock engines. Pro drag racing programs are still a big part of the business at Kaase’s, but over the past several years, the company has been devoting some Read more
There are a lot of reasons to love Duesenbergs: the amazing engineering, the breathtaking bodies, the incomparable feeling behind the wheel. But the thing that makes some of us just go nuts is the history. I don’t mean the Fred-and-Augie history; rather, it’s the wonderful, unlikely and often conflicting stories Read more
I have long had this dream of hot rodding a 1965 Ford Falcon. It’s perhaps the most aggressively styled of the 1960s U.S. Falcons, and it should take all the same modifications as a contemporary Mustang would – which means just about anything you can imagine. But in the case Read more
Many of the car collectors we visit in the course of putting together our magazines tend to have larger-than-average properties – gentlemen farmers, if you’d like to call them that. And many of them tend to have some sort of older Ford tractor they use to perform all sorts of Read more
Not only will we here at Hemmings turn our spotlight on Chevrolets at the 2011 New England Concours d’Elegance this July, but we also just heard via the Hemmings Forums from film producers Sherman Pictures about an upcoming movie on the history of Chevrolet, and they’re looking for Chevrolet fanatics Read more