First exhibited with V-12 power and all-wheel drive, the production version used a twin-turbo V-6 to power its rear wheels only, a design change that prompted lawsuits from potential buyers. Just 275 examples were built from 1992 – ’94, with each selling for 470,000 pounds (then, $900,000), which makes the fee-inclusive $357,500 paid last week […]
Though the scale is not provided, the largest die (on the right) probably measures about five inches in diameter, give or take an inch. The smaller die, on the left, likely measures about four inches in diameter. Each “pocket” on the pair of dies is probably 5/8″ to 11/16.” We’ve also removed a bit of […]
Jere Stahl was a gifted mechanic and designer out of the York, Pennsylvania, area who came up with his own line of equal-length exhaust headers that set a firm standard of performance during his tenure. Stahl died on June 21, and sources said he had been suffering from cancer. If you’ve never heard his name, […]
Rather, he probably cared more about how fast he got to the show field in his amalgam of Packard, Auburn, and other old car parts that added up to a boattail speedster that will hit the auction block later this summer. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars […]
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 […]
Quite possibly for the first time in this entire collection of photos, we see a Hartford municipal vehicle and it appears to be the oldest vehicle in the set, for whatever that’s worth. What do you see here? Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes […]
These compact books were 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in size, and ran 136 pages in length. The numerous photographs were black and while, but there was an eight-page color section in the center that depicts the many different car models that were produced. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s Motorbooks International published […]
Six days in the books, three to go, and the race to claim the title as Grand Champion of the 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty is getting tighter by the mile. Sportsmen Division veterans Bill & Carolyn Croker, in their 1936 Packard 120B Coupe, are welcomed to the day’s finish line […]
Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) was founded by Peter Brock in 1965, but the BRE name is forever associated with its racing achievements from 1970 to 1972. With star driver John Morton, the team would capture back-to-back SCCA C-Production championships with the Datsun 240Z in 1970 and 1971, followed by Trans Am Championships in the under […]
To different groups of car enthusiasts, Roy Lunn represents vastly different accomplishments. There are Ford’s GT40 wins at Le Mans, for which he’s perhaps most recognized, but there’s also the Jeep XJ Cherokee, the Ford Anglia, multiple performance Mustangs, and even an Aston Martin or two in his resume. And for all that, the Automotive […]
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