Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Plymouth Road Runner

Mopars have to be among the cars least likely to have their original engines, for a variety of reasons, and it seems that it’s an across-the-board affliction for them, from the lowliest straight-six car to the top 440-powered beast. So it’s refreshing to see that this 1973 Plymouth Road Runner not only has its original […]

A Big Return

We got some immediate and grateful response from readers to the recent story in Hemmings Muscle Machines, illustrated with the photography of Mike Sopko, on bygone drag racing at U.S. 30 Dragway outside Gary, Indiana. (HMM #90, March 2011). Hands down, the craziest car in that story was No Big Thing, a tiny Vespa sedan […]

John Steers, fiberglass car pioneer

Hemmings Muscle Machines readers will soon be opening their May issues to see a story on Steve Steers and his 1954 Victress S1A, the construction of which was at least partially inspired by the fiberglass and other homebuilt cars his father, John, built and raced while living in Palo Alto, California, in the late 1940s […]