* MLive this past week took a look at the story of the SS Senator, a Great Lakes shipwreck that holds 268 Nashes and that was added to the National Register of Historic Places last month. (via) One of the vehicles contesting next month’s Peking-to-Paris race will be a 1968 AMX looking sufficiently beefy and […]
Described as a restored driver-quality car, this cat comes powered by a 351 Cleveland V-8 topped by a two-barrel carburetor, which was rated at 168 SAE net horsepower. As an XR7 version, it adds chrome rocker panels, unique wheel covers, a vinyl roof, and additional gauges, and this example was even ordered new with the […]
* If I’ve embedded this video right, it’ll be the first of several AMC Pacer commercials. Is that cowboy in line the same one from “Blazing Saddles?” Reader Gary Rynsburger sent us a link to the 1966 Chevrolet introduction video this week specifically for the camper truck chase scene toward the end, but we figured […]
While Camaro production officially began in August 1966, a month before Chevrolet unveiled its Mustang fighter to the public, Chevrolet needed to know that production would ensue smoothly, so the division set up pilot production lines at its Norwood and Los Angeles assembly plants to build – and in some cases re-build – 52 cars, […]
Whatever the engine under the hood, it’s a sharp bench-seat, column-shift-auto car that looks ready to cruise. From the seller’s description: Oddly, our sources for 1968 Mercurys show the 302 as the base V-8 engine that year (Fords could still get a 289 in 1968), but this 1968 Mercury Comet coupe for sale on Hemmings.com […]
In the meantime, there’s plenty of Euro cars to identify in the background along with a couple of trucks. The farther back you go with your IDs, the more points you get. What do you see here? Not sure exactly where Porsche’s ad agency at the time shot this photo for an ad for the […]
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 […]
The 1940 Packard Royal roadster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy Auctions America. Despite the mostly aluminum body, it tips the scales at 13,200 pounds, and its 2,500-cu.in supercharged Packard V-12 produces a reported 1,600 horsepower and 3,000 pound-feet of torque. The 1940 Packard Royal roadster, created by plus-size car builder Rodney Rucker, is perhaps the […]
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