We keep saying that original cars are one of the hottest trends in the hobby right now, and that’s because we keep coming across cars that illustrate that point. Take, for instance, this 1949 De Soto Custom convertible for sale on Hemmings.com, one of 3,385 built that year, which recently emerged from a Rip Van […]

(Editor’s Note: Our team following the Great Race has had internet connectivity issues on the road the last few days, but we just received this batch of updates from the weekend.) Friday – pre-race day Sixty cars began the Hemmings 2011 Great Race from the headquarters of Coker Tire in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Friday’s pre-race activities […]

One of the three original Dodge Chargers – a cool artifact of drag racing yesteryear – will be auctioned off Labor Day weekend at Worldwide Auctioneers’ Auburn sale. The car is said to be the only remaining example of the three-car match race team built by Dragmaster and fielded by Chrysler in the early months […]