At the annual Mecum Spring Auction held in Indianapolis each May, you can find many beautiful examples of your favorite classic cars for sale. You can find the car you grew up with, the car your dad had, and the car you never should have sold. You can also find vehicles that you never even […]
It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Pontiac, Michigan, was the epicenter of illicit drag racing—often on the access roads of the yet-to-be-completed I-696 Freeway, but even between stoplights on the famed boulevard itself. Return of the North Woodward Timing […]
Enter benefactor Nicola Bulgari who, through his NB Center for American Automotive Heritage, has ensured a future for America on Wheels as part of a grander plan to transform Allentown into a global destination for classic car fans. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize […]
Turbo-Thrift inline-six to the legendary 409, which made as much as 425 horsepower. Most cars split the difference between these two extremes, and this 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS two-door sport coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, is a perfect example. As ordered, it came with the 283 V-8 (good for 195 horsepower), mated to the two-speed […]
The shadows seem to indicate that we’re looking east, but there’s also the on-ramp in the foreground, the bridge in the background and the span of water in between the bridge and the opposing lanes of traffic. To confuse the issue even more, the bridge’s website has the photo adjacent to a section of text […]
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News This model year represented the first time we received the “facelifted” 2002, with its all-black plastic grille and larger, rectangular taillamps, along with — starting in January 1974 — the aluminum impact bumpers that added 9.5 inches and 110 pounds to the car. 1974 also represented […]
* 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, […]
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