As we make our way through August, Labor Day weekend is fast approaching, and for us, that means it’s almost time to return to Englishtown’s Raceway Park for Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine’s Musclepalooza XII. This will be the second time we’ve gone down to Jersey with our muscle car extravaganza, and just like last year […]

When RM Auctions put the Astra coupe up on the auction block at its Arizona event back in January, it had a lot going for it – recent magazine coverage, a recent restoration, and plenty of history to separate it from most other mid-1950s homebuilt cars. Yet it came down from the block a no-sale, […]

Original hot rods and customs from the 1950s and 1960s tend to be few and far between: Aside from normal attrition that all cars of that age face, they also have to contend with fads falling out of fashion and subsequent owners re-customizing the cars according to their wishes. But like finding an unrestored original […]