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Midway through the 1968 British Saloon Car Championship, Australian tin-top ace Frank Gardner swapped his Lotus Cortina for a Ford Escort Mk1 built by Alan Mann Racing. He won the title by almost 30 ...
The cars built on General Motors’ famous 1977 B-body platform are undoubtedly some of its greatest successes. Slimmer, lighter, better to drive, and cleaner-looking than their elephantine 1971–76 ...
The Shelby Cobra story has been told a million and one times, but that’s because it’s a damn good one. Built for a few brief years in the 1960s, real-deal Cobras became famous on both road and race ...
The great thing about auto museums is that there are thousands of them, all over the world, many of which are nestled away in places you might not have heard of and just waiting to be discovered. For ...
I had a feeling that our readers’ answers to this question about daily drivers would be fraught with conflict about the definition of a “classic” vehicle. Sure enough, our divergent thoughts did come ...
The original Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a real number generator. It ended up being offered in nine different model forms, sold 473,035 units in its eight-year lifetime, and took six years to develop.
Even if you don’t live in northern climates, a “winter project” encapsulates the right way to go about a project. It sets both a goal and a deadline in two tidy words, capturing a task or group of ...
There’s a new entry in the electrified truck segment, and it’s one we didn’t see coming. Unveiled at the Shanghai auto show, the Nissan Frontier PHEV offers a generous amount of electric-only range, ...
At age 11, Don Webb acted on a fantasy many kids that age have: He drove a car. His short, risky trip in a brand new 1960 Corvette nearly took him through the garage wall in his family’s new home near ...
When I bought my salvage-titled 1988 BMW E30 325is last fall and found out that it was the rear two-thirds of one car and the front clip of another, and had the low-revving 121-hp fuel-efficient “Eta” ...
If you know much at all about motorsports, you’ve likely heard of the National Hot Rod Association, or NHRA, which sanctions drag racing in the U.S. and beyond, and owns several of the major tracks ...
Does it matter what color your car is? It may not matter as much as, say, the condition of your brakes or whether your registration is current, but everyone knows the color of your car says something ...