It is a little known fact that it was Volkswagen that brought back the revered Bugatti name to prominence in 2006. Volkswagen, in fact, reset the clock on exotic super cars when they came out with the Bugatti Veyron. That took the super car market to a whole new level. Then the successor to the…
All muscle car enthusiasts seem to agree that the 1971 Plymouth Cuda was very possibly the most beautiful muscle car design of all time. Perfect from its gills in the front to its muscular haunches in the back, the billboard Cudas are a one-of-a-kind rendering for the ages. A California Mopar collector listed this Curious…
It was a time when small automakers could emerge and make it big. In the period between 1909 and 1912, a small automotive manufacturer called E-M-F moved into second place behind only Ford to make 26,827 vehicles in 1911. That was the year they built three purpose built race cars to compete in the Tiedeman…
Fun facts! Sometimes unusual things happened at the Ford factory that they did not want the general public to know about. The 1951 Ford F-3 Truck which you see here was sent by Ford to Grant Body and Equipment Company in 1951. Their commission was to make it a “three-door” truck. This unique one-of-a-kind vehicle…
The opus of the muscle car, where it all began … almost everyone is in agreement that it was with the advent of Pontiac’s GTO that the muscle car movement came to be. Before it there were no factory manufactured hot rods to which young Americans could aspire. In a GM-centric view of automotive history,…
The jury was still out when Chevrolet’s 1954 Corvette showed up in dealer showrooms across the U.S. Did it fullfill the pent up demand for a two-seater sports car in the American landscape? There is no doubt the ’54 model made some improvements over the first-year 1953 Corvettes. It had a revised grille, new exterior…
Every custom car collector’s dream is to own a legendary show car. After years of custom fabrication and endless hours of wet sanding and polishing to perfection, a show quality custom will impress show goers so much that it will live in their memories for a lifetime. But it seldom happens that a top show…
426 Hemi Mopar muscle cars are the ones all others are judged by. If you want to give respect to an engine you compare it with the Elephantine Hemi. Just mentioning the word “Hemi” in a crowded room will make you the center of attention. You can probably feel the ground shake as we…
Carroll Shelby must have been mystified when everyone wanted his rare little Cobras and Mustang Shelby muscle cars. Probably the worst part was that everybody was making money off his name … everybody except him. So he began marketing some of his own replicas under his Continuation series. One of the rarest of these was…
Before Carroll Shelby’s Cobras and Jim Hall’s Chaparrals there was an American racer and car builder named Bob Carnes who built amazing race cars out of his shop in Colorado. They called them Bocars, and racing history will rate them as the “scurge of the Scarabs.” The rarest of these cars were known as Stilettos…