Buying any project car is a gamble. The reason we buy derelict or needy modes of transportation is the foolish belief that we can return a broken hulk to a functional object. When the first step is ...
I beamed as I said this to my wife, Misty, about my first drive in the Centurion. We’d just gotten home from a 78-mile back-road trip from the Ohio shop that helped me finish the car. Misty followed ...
If you follow this site, you won’t be surprised to learn that our staffers have their hands in many different automotive projects—some glamorous, some not, and certainly more than we have time to ...
The race started with a familiar routine: Earplugs before climbing into the car, helmet before belts, and gloves last. Right as I was reaching for the ignition a cheery face popped in front of me, ...
I’m sure there were a good number of friends and colleagues who thought I had really jumped off the deep end. I mean, I spent most of my life beating my chest about how V-8 power was superior and how ...
Quite rightly, the Shelby name conjures aw-shucks images of muscular little roadsters and white-and-blue Mustangs and GT40s at Le Mans. There was that famous 1959 victory at the French circuit with ...
I miss the Cadillac of my youth. Who would have guessed, even ten years ago, that virtually all manufacturers would snub the traditional, four-door sedan? But they have. For the majority of 2024 ...
We’ve been fortunate to get a few chances recently to sample two of the more pure, engaging cars on the market today—the Toyota GR86 and the Subaru BRZ. Managing editor Eddy Eckart recently logged ...
We updated the Hagerty Price Guide last month, and “soft” is a word that keeps coming up. Most of our collector car indexes are down year-over-year, and some vehicles shed as much as 18 percent of ...
Steve Guenther, then a mere 20 years old, bought a lightly used ’71 Vette in 1973 for the princely sum of $3750. That was quite a bit in those days when one could buy a house for less than 20K. The ...
If you’re of a certain age, the reveal at SEMA of Toyota’s GR86-based Rally Legacy Concept played a digital soundtrack in your head and set any quarters in your pockets a-jangling. A two-door Toyota ...
“The last properly built Mercedes-Benz, when engineers held sway over the accountants.” If you’ve ever drifted your eyes over the classifieds in search of 1980s and 1990s Mercedes metal, you’ll have ...