The 23rd running of the American muscle-car-only event, now sponsored by Dark Horse Customs, takes place on Sunday, May 29, at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York. Summer is so close we can just about smell it, and in the Hemmings offices that’s a sure sign that Musclepalooza is back. Last fall’s Best […]
We are picking our way through the old hot iron as it grumbles in the staging lanes, and our eyes are drawn to the flash of a gold-and-purple satin jacket on a venerable hot rodder sitting behind the wheel of Al Clarke’s A/V-8 roadster pickup. For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland […]
Scheduled to begin on June 24, 2017, and with an announced purse of $150,000 – $50,000 of which goes to the overall winner once again – the Great Race will start in Jacksonville, Florida, and then head in a general northwesterly direction through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, where it will finish in Traverse […]
Above, a look at Grote Markt – now car-less – and Sint Geertruidus Kerk in Bergen Op Zoom, and below, a look at Ridderzaal– also now car-less – in The Hague. While the European street scenes of the last few days offered a good deal of variety, these two probably have the widest selection of […]
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned themselves with the topic both before and after World War II, but the vast majority of that concern focused on pretty much everything but the automobile itself. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph […]
“An improperly tightened rear tie rod to hub-carrier assembly attaching bolt may allow the tie rod to separate from the hub carrier, resulting in a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash,” NHTSA said in its recall summary. WASHINGTON — Maserati North America is recalling 26,464 2014-’16 Maserati Quattroporte and Maserati Ghibli sedans […]
The projected May sales will be a 2.3 percent increase from April 2016, but a 5.8 percent decrease from May 2015. SANTA MONICA, California — May car sales may dip compared to a year ago, but Edmunds.com forecasts that 2016 is still on track to break last year’s record of 17.47 million new-car sales. “It’s […]
From Issue Two of the Gear Patrol Magazine. Subscribe today for 15% off the GP Store. Big implications loom. Power is the ability to zip off up to 8,000 nautical miles, about enough to get to any major or minor city around the world in a span of hours; decadence is doing so in the […]
More than half of those vehicles (2.3 million) have been recalled previously for similar issues. WASHINGTON — American Honda Motor Co. is recalling 4.5 million vehicles to replace defective Takata front-passenger inflators in two new campaigns, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Friday. The recalled Honda and Acura vehicles are: 2003-’06 Acura MDX […]
The vehicles include: 2004-’11 Mazda RX-8 2004-’06 Mazda MPV 2003-’11 Mazda 6 2006-’07 Mazdaspeed 6 2007-’11 Mazda CX-7 2007-’11 Mazda CX-9 WASHINGTON — Mazda North American Operations added 731,628 vehicles to an expanded Takata airbag recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday. “In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the […]
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