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Jonathan Shaw, President Matthew Boice, Senior Vice President of Media Douglas R. Glad, Head of Content Dan Stoner, Creative Director Matthew Litwin, Editor, Hemmings Classic Car Jerry Pitt, Managing Editor Evan Perkins, Director of Digital Content T

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I did fresh out of high school was join a local circle track stock car team. Always into cars, I fancied myself as either a race car driver or a crew chief—I “grew up NASCAR,” after all–but my opportunities to actually work on

EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TO: mlitwin@hemmings.com BACK IN THE AUGUST 2023 issue, Matthew Litwin asked what one would do if you could get your first car again. In my case, I would apologize to that 1962 Ford Falcon that a teenage hotrodder (me

To vintage-TR fans, the firm’s last sports car was controversial in looks; time proved its wedge shape was on-trend. Perhaps the aftermarket body kit fitted to this TR8 was a step too far for some, but not for the excited bidders vying for the custom

MY MOTHER HAD an old White sewing machine when I was growing up, a big model mounted on its own table; she operated it with a foot treadle. A few blocks away from us, a guy owned an old White steam car. About 25 years later I learned that the two pro

SPONSORED BY GULLWING MOTOR CARS If there’s one thing we’ve learned about automotive barn finds, it’s that such discoveries are not always the cut-and-dry variety. You know, the classic image of some rarity being pulled from a structure so dilapidate

The schedule for Demo Days at the Simeone Museum has been announced featuring a full slate of gatherings planned for select Saturdays from May to November. Each event kicks off at 11:15 a.m. and will include a brief presentation on the technical spec

“Mom drove us back and forth to school, and I think of her hands on the steering wheel. And Dad drove us around for several years, using the knob on the wheel. There are a couple of little dings on it from things hitting it when my brother and I were

Send your search questions to swapmeet@hemmings.com Q: My grandfather gave me the engine he kept out of his old 1953 Chrysler when he learned I was rebuilding my 1958 De Soto into a cruiser. The engine is a 331-cu.in. hemi with an extended bellhousin

ASKING PRICE: $4,500 FOUND AT: 2023 AACA EASTERN FALL MEET (HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA) AMERICANS REDISCOVERED factory performance thanks, in part, to NASCAR’s first official Strictly Stock (quickly renamed Grand National) race, held on June 19, 1949, on