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In the past 20 years, unless you count obituaries of pals gone behind pit wall, I’ve written rarely about cars. If it weren’t for Yugo’s anniversary and recent hints that the brand may actually make a ...
Not long after I began contributing to Hagerty eight years ago, I wrote a detailed four-part piece on electrical relays and how they work in cars. You can still find the articles here (Part I: Why We ...
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 ...
Broadly speaking, there are two schools of thought when it comes to choosing a color for a sports car. Some argue that more subtle colors, like silver, white, and black, are the way to go for a more ...
The term “like manna from heaven,” from the Biblical story of the food that sustained the wandering Israelites during their forty years in the desert, has entered our lexicon as an idiom for something ...
Ed Pink, known for decades as “The Old Master” because of his wide-ranging engine-building expertise, passed away at age 94. Born in Los Angeles in 1931, Pink made a name for himself in land speed ...
A bizarre Cadillac guitar car which was originally built for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is up for auction. Based on a 1970 Eldorado, it was designed by Jay Ohrberg, who famously built the Pink ...
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 ...
Like many young, career-minded people, Garrett Mitchell came to a significant fork in the road. Do I continue with law school, or do I take a chance that I’ll be able to make some sort of impact as a ...
I joke that curiosity is my religion and thank God I get to ask questions for a living. Printed magazines were the primary medium used by nonfiction storytellers like me until the internet disrupted ...
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.
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” ...