I had always assumed that the Fordillacs of hot rodding lore were all built with Cadillac’s groundbreaking OHV V-8 engine, not the Cadillac flathead V-8 engine, which is what appears in this 1949 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. Then again, it’s not as if Frick and his partners built these as production-line automobiles; they were […]

The Customs Then and Now exhibit at the Grand National Roadster Show will include Larry Watson’s Thunderbird. It’s a good bet the girl posing with it won’t be there, though. One of the most anticipated events on the calendar for fans of the flaked, candied, chopped, dropped, nosed and decked customs of the 1940s, 1950s […]

As if you (and by “you,” I mean “me”) needed another reason to want a new Corvette, Chevrolet announced last week that U.S. customers who purchase any new ‘Vette through February 28 can receive free tuition to either of the two official Corvette driving schools: the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving near Phoenix, […]