Conventional wisdom says that a restored-to-original-specifications car will almost always retain more value than a restomod, which, typically speaking, is built to address a specific owner’s styling and performance tastes. Last weekend’s Mecum auction in Denver, Colorado, showed that both camps have strong devotees; of the five Corvettes in the sale’s top-10, three were restorations, […]
From the seller’s description: It was my grandmother’s car. which she restored in the ’80s, parked it under a carport and used it very little. I acquired it and started restoring it again a couple of years ago. Since I’ve had it, most everything you can’t see has been replaced or refurbished. The transmission has […]
Location: Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota Source: Lavonne Ullrich, submitted by Gene Reiser Date: September 1958 What do you see here?
This gem, dug out of the imported car brochure drawer in a HMN filing cabinet, offered a genuine surprise to this writer, as I was completely unaware of these Renaults’ existence, never having personally seen or even read about them before in my 40 years of car-nuttiness. How did these sporty 1970s Renaults fly so far […]
When Bristol stopped production of the engine in 1961, it looked like the end of the road for the Ace, but then Carroll Shelby and Ford entered the picture, and the rest is motorsport history. Just one Shelby Cobra prototype was ever built, and it has been owned by Carroll Shelby, and now the Carroll […]
From the seller’s description: between 1953 and 1958. There is probably less than 6 existing in the US which make it one of the rarest SUV in the world. Beautifully restored as close as possible to original. Original engine fully restored as well, 90 HP 3,7 liter in line 6 cc mated to Volvo E9 […]
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Representing the latest and greatest GM had to offer was the front wheel-drive, aero-styled Cutlass Supreme Coupe, which shared its GM10 W-body platform and characteristic B-pillar-mounted vertical door handles with the equally new Buick Regal, Chevrolet Lumina and Pontiac Grand Prix coupes. The Cutlass Supreme’s floating […]
Last week, Hemmings reader Jeff Yost and I were discussing the subject of tires and collector cars. When Jeff purchased his 1976 Chevrolet Corvette through a Hemmings ad in April of 2016, he thought it would be a good idea to check the age of the tires on the car, a set of pristine B.F. […]
Of course I said yes. As director of the Wills Museum, how could I possibly turn down a request for such an important event. Photos courtesy Terry Ernest. Long time Wills Sainte Claire Museum member Bill Mason’s son, Rick, emailed me earlier this year and asked if I could attend and represent the Wills Museum […]
For this year’s entry in the Venice Biennale, an every-other-year international architecture exposition in the Italian city, the U.S. Department of State chose to focus on the city of Detroit by entrusting its Biennale pavilion design to the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and to co-curators Cynthia Davidson and Monica […]
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