From the seller’s description: About 90 percent of the 91,000 odometer (highway) miles were registered before 1985. From 1985 to present-day fewer than 100 miles were added each year. Most oil and filter changes occurred with less than 100 miles of use resulting in an engine that runs like a watch. The interior, except for […]
Each truck listed here is special in its own way, but all of them have the same purposeful utility that we still value today—enough so to maybe even make you pry open your wallet and find some room in your garage. They are presented in no particular order, but I assure you that at least one or two will […]
The 1,000,000th Corvette rolled across the Bowling Green plant to a cavalcade of applause, balloons, and orchestral music, went across the street to the National Corvette Museum, led a quiet life not being driven anywhere, and eventually fell into a sinkhole. Twenty-four years ago today, the one millionth Corvette rolled off the line in Bowling […]
y the end of the decade, the staging lanes at local dragstrips were clogged with Foxes. The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be modified. B If you were a Chevrolet person at […]
Thats one hell of an undertaking to begin with, but the people at The Mill production company point out that shooting with the actual car is dependent on vehicle availability, and with ever-evolving models, car commercials have a relatively short shelf life. Their solution? Don’t shoot with the actual car. Traditionally, if you wanted to […]
For example, this 1961 Chevrolet Corvair 700 Lakewood station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com is coming up on a full decade since its resto, but it still looks like it just rolled out of the shop. At what point does a restoration on a car become an “older restoration?” Perhaps that doesn’t depend so much […]
It’s not dissimilar from any other industry where collectables that cost next to nothing become absolutely priceless on the resale market. (I bet you wish your grandfather held on to that Action Comics No. 1 right about now.) There really is noPatek Philippe Golden Ellipse Replica scientific way to tell which items will garner fortunes […]
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the two institutions still share quite a bit of heritage. The Chevrolet Corvette has been chosen as the Indy 500 pace car a record 13 times, and Zora Arkus-Duntov himself once presented the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with […]
The Red Sox and Yankees. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Some of best stories from the annals of American culture happen to be fierce rivalries. But outside of baseball and mountain-dwelling good ‘ol boys, you’d be hard pressed to find an American rivalry more heated than the to one between the Mustang and Camaro. Millions […]
Editor’s note: Last August, we brought you the story of Hemmings Daily contributor, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senator Don Homuth’s improbable quest for, and later purchase of, the 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa convertible he’d originally acquired in January of 1968, the night before his return to Vietnam. In Don’s own words, here […]
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