Advertisements The Street to the Strip: New England Hot Rods1945 – 1965 August 28 – November 14, 2021(on view during the 2021 Audrain Newport Concours & Motor Week) Automobile owners have been customizing their cars since the automobile became common… Read More ›
Advertisements Without question, Ford was once America’s biggest builder of station wagons. From Ford’s station wagon debut in 1929 through 1960, the automaker sold 1,970,785 wagons in total. Concurrent to this family hauler’s rise in popularity, its market segment went from 2… Read More ›
Advertisements While we had the Schroll 32 Coupe at the Wheels of Time Jamboree there was an open space in the shop. The 1939 Mercury has been sitting in storage until we had some free time and space, but starting… Read More ›
Advertisements This is the story of a car obsession. The family asks that the actual names not be published, but otherwise the story is true in every particular. In the late 50s, Roy was a typical “1960s father” who cared… Read More ›
Advertisements “These rules are solely for the purpose of obtaining certain stylistic qualities associated with drag racing in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s,” is a great premise for a race series as far as I’m concerned. Those certain stylistic qualities mandated… Read More ›
Advertisements I was a car designer with Ford and Chrysler in the 1950s, a time of powerful, classic cars. What made my employment as a designer unique is that I was a 23-year-old farm boy from Millinocket with no formal art training, and in… Read More ›
Advertisements You’ll no doubt recall that 1977 wasn’t a banner year for American performance vehicles. Two hundred net horsepower seemed unobtainable in those emissions-choked, fuel-starved years, and what was the point of a dual exhaust when it had to blow… Read More ›
Advertisements n our latest edition of This or That, we’re continuing our selection of hero cars, though this time from a 1980s small-screen perspective. One-hour action dramas were hardly new to television audiences; however, rather than the generic good guys versus bad guys, a… Read More ›
Advertisements Through years of covering the classic car world, we’ve seen a lot of restoration shops, and it’s remarkable how many of these professional facilities —be they machine shops or all-out restoration/body shops—fail to keep an organized and safe environment…. Read More ›
Advertisements We have a new episode of Road to Improvement ready to watch, just click on the video player above or jump over to our YouTube channel. With the trip officially under way, Mike Musto and Elana Scherr head down to Silver Sport… Read More ›
