As Lentinello noted the other day, the Veteran Motor Car Club of America now allows vehicles up through the 1986 model year to participate in its tours and judging. For our Class of 1986 series, that simply means that we have another metric to judge a car’s collectibility by – would you see yourself driving […]

One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Dagenham, rather at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, that Ford opened at the request […]

Every International Harvester product I’ve seen since coming to the Northeast – especially every Scout – goes up in rust like a kerosene-drenched bonfire. For that reason alone, this restored Massachusetts-based 1972 IH Scout II stands out. Add in the fire-engine red paint, the steelies, the V-8, and it appears to be an exceptional early […]