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A few years before the muscle car era officially kicked off, the Big Three auto manufacturers in Detroit were already competing in the horsepower wars. The full-size cars of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s brought along large-displacement engines th

Jonathan Shaw, President Terry McGean, Editor-in-Chief Mike McNessor, Editor, Hemmings Motor News Mike Austin, Director of Digital Content, Hemmings Daily Kurt Ernst, Managing Editor Catherine Gee Graney, Managing Editor Thomas A. DeMauro, Senior

A good friend of mine used to say that the interiors of some cars had a certain “ambiance,” though he had a hard time conveying exactly what that was. In spite of his somewhat nebulous statement, I knew just what he meant, though I couldn’t define it

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Sometimes, through a series of coincidences, you will meet someone who has done something interesting or extraordinary. When I lived in Israel, a friend of mine, Aviv Collen, a fellow French car fan, invited me to photograph Israel’s first officially

One day, years ago, we were in George and Kathleen’s garage, and she’d thrown a plastic sheet over the open Packard. At that time, their garage roof had a leak. That piece of plastic was bellowed down in a big bowl over the front and back seats, and

One of the hottest and most creative categories in the automotive aftermarket is Restomod. Update the drivetrain components of a classic factory ride to make it as rowdy as it is reliable, then tuck modern suspension up under it to handle all that ne

One of the more unusual automotive histories is that of the Birmingham car. A rather distinctive automobile, its story twists and turns and at times seems to defy logic. According to published sources, the company was founded in Birmingham, Alabama,

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The Romans erected great buildings out of concrete 2,000 years ago that still stand today. But during the Dark Ages, the technology was lost. For centuries after that, structures were essentially big piles of rocks. There were no Romans around to ask