“Is there a better £15,000 sports saloon?” asked the headline on the cover of Autocar & Motor, in April 1991. Somewhat spoiling the surprise, before readers had had a chance to pick a copy off the ...
Saab hasn’t made cars for 10 years now, but in its heyday, the Swedish brand pitched itself as the thinking person’s alternative to BMW, Volvo, Audi, and Mercedes. Compared to a 5-Series or a 244, the ...
On Woodward Avenue late on a summer evening, all eyes were on a black 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle. Owner Darrin Slota gave the throttle squeezes that briefly lifted the nose and smoothly shifted the ...
Winn learned to drive in her parent's first-year Camaro and piloted it throughout her high school years. Nearly 60 years on, she still has it. Chris Stark In 1967, my father surprised my mother by ...
A Mercedes-Benz W196R which was driven to victory at the 1955 Buenos Aires Grand Prix by Juan Manuel Fangio and set the fastest lap at Monza, Italy with Stirling Moss behind the wheel will soon be in ...
My parents recently told me about their trip to Istanbul with our extended family, during which the group hired a guide to help navigate the city. Regular Against All Oddities readers know that such a ...
After I gushed two weeks ago about the gorgeous, running 1969 Lotus Elan +2 I was able to buy because both a serious mouse contamination issue, and the fact that the wife of the deceased owner wanted ...
It was the spring of 1976 when General Motors Design vice president William L. “Bill” Mitchell strolled into John Schinella’s Pontiac #2 Design studio to review future Firebird proposals. On his way ...
Irwindale Speedway, located just east of Los Angeles, is closing for good. Again. Though I live on the other coast, my history with the 25-year-old facility dates back to its beginning. I was ...
We always want what we can’t have. A limited Japanese-only version of a record? People will pay high sums for those. A rare mistake on a pre-production watch? Gold dust. You get the idea. However, few ...
Each December, we put together the Hagerty Bull Market List, our annual selection of the collector-car hobby’s movers and shakers. Basically, it’s a group of 10 or so cars (with the occasional truck ...
The team that works on the media side of the Hagerty website lives all over the country and has a variety of project cars and daily drivers. For some of us, winter is when projects hibernate out of ...