Seeing Dick Pelkey’s high-riding 1955 Chevrolet gasser at Musclepalooza on Memorial Day weekend conjured sepia-toned memories of the Badman model kit. As a kid, I thought the Badman would be the perfect automobile for all-around daily use: big-block Chevy, open headers, straight front axle, and “Adios Mother” painted across the trunk lid – a phrase […]

It has become a sort of summer kick-off tradition around these parts: Hemmings Musclepalooza at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York. Over the past several seasons, the combination of muscle car show and drag race has proven to be quite popular with participants and spectators alike, drawing enough cars to fill the facility […]

With New England’s infamous mud season, followed by its infernal hay fever season, there might not be much to look forward to about springtime up here were it not for the biweekly cruise nights here at Hemmings headquarters in Bennington, Vermont. So it’s a good thing the cruise nights are returning for the 2011 season, […]