Still not April Fools’: Lotus buys Caterham

We knew Lotus had something brewing with Caterham, but we figured it was going to mean escaping the Lotus Renault GP/Team Lotus fiasco with a Caterham-branded Team Lotus F1 car. And while that’s certainly still a possibility, instead news broke today that Team Lotus acquired Caterham Cars. For those who might be confused, and that’s […]

The workshop of a genius, gone that quick

Nobody will ever know, exactly, just how much wild and creative stuff went on inside Smokey Yunick’s garage, mechanical and otherwise. Yunick can’t tell us, other than through his outrageous autobiography, because he died in 2001. Now, the original Smokey’s Garage is gone, reduced to rubble on Monday night after a fire of undetermined origin. […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 MG MGA

Like them or not, there are certainly some good reasons for building a clone of some significant or noteworthy car out of another run-of-the-mill collector car (of course, that’s as long as the owner is straightforward about the humble origins of the car). In the case of this 1957 MG MGA for sale on Hemmings.com, […]