Buy a Bentley, get a coachbuilder free

Freestone & Webb is not a household name in America, even among cognoscenti, but in England, the London-based coachbuilding firm is of some renown. Most of their output–as many as 15 cars a year at their peak–was on Bentley and Rolls-Royce chassis, and they were stalwarts at the London Motor Show, where they won their private […]

Build this 100-MPH sports car for under $500!

A few months ago, in the Lost and Found pages of Hemmings Classic Car, we began the hunt for the remaining Mechanix Illustrated Specials, a type of do-it-yourself car that capitalized on the late 1940s/early 1950s sport-special craze, but which combined elements of early kit car building, hot rodding and junkyard digging. Mechanix Illustrated offered […]