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Classic YouTube: The 1953 Corvette Assembly Process – Hand-Built, All 300 Of Them!

If you want to know where the market for a car is going, a good way to learn what’s up is to hunt down military members with paychecks in hand. A bunch of young Joes with their first taste of...

Amazing Find: This 1950s Custom Sports Car Was Dragged Out Of Storage, Is For Sale – Kaiser Henry J Based!

Banghifter Rob Miller gets all the credit for sending us this pretty incredible Craigslist find which is centered around a custom built sport cars from the 1950s that is based on a Kaiser Henry J...

Random Car Review: The 1969 Dodge Yellow Jacket and 1970 Diamante Concept Car

in 1969 it was a good time to work for Dodge. Essentially, the entire work mantra was “anything goes, so long as it sells”, and they were having one hell of a party doing it. The B-body...

Old Haunting: 1982 Dodge Mirada Nostalgia Pro Stocker – Add Motor And Go

I saw my first Dodge Mirada in a Colorado Springs junkyard in late 2000. I raided the turbine wheels off of the bronze machine, a car that might have been loved at one point but had since been put...

Random Car Review: The 1973 Ford Pinto Pangra – The Hot Pinto Before The Pinto Caught Fire

Picture it: the year is 1972. The muscle car is pretty much dead, buried by the insurance companies with the EPA dancing on the grave like a gleeful demon. Catalytic converters are coming, as are...

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The Fiero Revival: Now That It Runs Fine, Time To Get Onto The Body Work

Ronnie’s progress with his Pontiac Fiero has been astounding. The man is focused on the details and is as in-depth as they get, which makes all of the work involved in bringing a derelict,...

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Fabulous Floppers: This Excerpt From The Vintage 1980s Diamond P Video Is An Amazing Pocket History Of Funny Cars

Just when you think you’ve seen them all! This is a 10-minute excerpt from a video called Fabulous Floppers that was made in the early 1980s. The best part is that this is the section of the...

Best of 2019: 1976 Camaro, Meet VW Beetle. We Don’t Know Where To Go From Here.

My first automotive love was the 1975-77 Chevrolet Camaro. I loved having the bigger back window on the Camaro that I first fell in love with when my uncle brought home a ’76 Type LT....

Best of 2019: Mike Bilina’s 1956 Chevrolet Is All Go, All Show!

When photographing on the dragstrip, we tend to look for a sure bet car. We want that action shot. We want the half-track burnout with Space Shuttle launch levels of tire smoke trailing behind. We...

The Small Shop With The Big Secrets: We Return To Short Street Rod Shop For A New Look-Around!

Four years ago, after I shot a feature on a 1964 Rambler that had been converted to a straight-axle car, I was invited out to a small garage in the middle of Kentucky. I was told that there were a...

Rough Start: 1970 Dodge Challenger – The Tired Old Soul

I could seriously just write, “Someone go save it, now, please.” And I would be satisfied knowing that someone has. I know that there is some serious rot on this 1970 Dodge Challenger, I...

Here’s How You Do A One-Of-One: The 1961 Chevrolet “Corphibian” – Ralph Nader’s Guaranteed Heart Attack!

Recently, the book Unsafe At Any Speed, Ralph Nader’s ode to automotive safety, pedestrian safety, environmental damage and his seemingly bona-fide hatred of the Chevrolet Corvair, reached the...

Buy It: The 1965 Koch Special Is An Incredible Window Into The Era Of Homebuilt American Sports Race Cars

When most people bemoan the loss of the “good ol’ days” of racing they are talking about drag racing and how much stuff has changed over the years in terms of technology, rules, and...

2019 Keeneland Concours D’Elegance Coverage: A Collection Of Everything European!

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – The featured marque of this year’s show is Aston Martin and several were in attendance.  The extent of my knowledge of the breed is limited to knowing...