Hemmings Find of the Day – MG Metro Group B cars

We might as well continue this week’s theme of doubled up Hemmings Finds of the Day with two MG Metro Group B rally cars recently added to the classifieds at Hemmings.com. The Auto Collections from Las Vegas is selling both – a 1985 and a 1988 – and though the descriptions of both include some […]

The real cars of NASCAR in the ’60s, with Freddie Lorenzen

Think the olden days of NASCAR were better simply because the “stock” cars were really stock? Then take a good look through these photos sent to us by Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg Auto Archive featuring Freddie Lorenzen’s Holman-Moody-prepped 1963 Ford Galaxie, as shot by photographer Ralph Poole shortly before the 1963 Motor Trend 500 […]

The private’s car and the Mammoth Garage

When we presented the photo that Marianne DeAngelis of the New York Guard sent us of a mystery racing machine helmed by Private Lewis van Alstyne and his dog Viola, much of the speculation of the identity of the car circled around Fiat or, possibly, Thomas. Yet David Greenlees is very sure neither of those […]