Among the consignments at Worldwide’s Houston Classic Auction Weekend is this 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible with buttoned-down looks that conceal a wild drag-racing past. The car is a stunning triple-black automatic and has spent the last few years preening for visitors at Phil Silva’s Muscle Car Legends Museum in Idabel, Oklahoma. But back in the […]

Word came to us last week that Herman Lewis, by some accounts the godfather of AMC racing, died February 13 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 73. Lewis, who told the Register-Herald of Beckley, West Virginia, that he cut his teeth as a racer hauling illegal moonshine in Tennessee, drag raced in Chevrolets […]