Pontiac by… Yenko?

The gloried performance car modifier of the holy muscle era, Yenko, is obviously most associated with the monster Chevrolets it created through big-block transplants. That changed in 1975 when a customer decided he wanted to hammer everything in sight, including a local Pontiac dealer’s son, who drove a Trans Am with the 455 SD powertrain […]

Who comes to the track with just one driving glove?

Much has been made about the sudden infatuation with sports and muscle cars at AMC in the late 1960s, and that’s evident here in this commercial for the 1969 AMX. Unlike the ads for the Rebel and Ambassador that we recently highlighted, this one scraps the pitchman approach and places an AMC owner in a […]

2011 Hemmings Cruise Night season begins this week

With New England’s infamous mud season, followed by its infernal hay fever season, there might not be much to look forward to about springtime up here were it not for the biweekly cruise nights here at Hemmings headquarters in Bennington, Vermont. So it’s a good thing the cruise nights are returning for the 2011 season, […]