From England comes the unhappy news that Bristol Cars, a maker of handbuilt, high-performance cars for discriminating (and wealthy) buyers for more than 60 years, has gone into bankruptcy. Up for grabs are all of Bristol’s assets, including its sole showroom in High Street Kensington, West London; its factory and restoration shop at Filton, just […]

The last 1948 Chrysler Town and Country we selected as a Hemmings Find of the Day drew some scorn because of the Cadillac engine that had been transplanted under its hood. Fear not, then: This 1948 Chrysler Town and Country still has the Chrysler flathead straight-eight powering that elegant wooden body. However, this one is […]

Drag racing in New England hasn’t always been relegated to Epping, New Hampshire. In fact, the region saw plenty of side-by-side action from the 1950s onward on a number of tracks, many of them repurposed airstrips. One of the longest lived of those tracks was the one at Orange, Massachusetts, where drag racing will return […]