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Posted by Daniel Strohl - There's no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They're just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man's effort to meld a wrecked Prius with a 1967 Pontiac Firebird that defied conventional restoration. * This week's Supreme Court decision to not hear a case concerning the Batmobile means that the famed car is subject to copyright, which means that any replicas have to be licensed through DC Comics. * While the tal... Read On>>
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1968 Ford Country Squire Posted by Daniel Strohl - Never fear, Northeasterners and Rust Belters: Despite the snowy backdrop for the photos of this 1968 Ford Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com, it hasn't been driven in the snow in at least 34 years and only has a spot of rust to contend with. Of course, one big reason it hasn't been driven in the snow for 34 years is because it hasn't run in that long and would need some underhood attention to return to the road. From the seller's description: I bought the car from the original owner in 2015. 99.999 percent rus...Read On>>
Hemmings Sunday Cinema - 1959 Chrysler lineup, Audi unintended acceleration cleanup, The Stone Killer Posted by Daniel Strohl - As Mac's Motor City Garage wrote this week, 1958's "An Evening With Fred Astaire" was the first television program recorded on color videotape, a feat made possible in part by sponsorship by Chrysler, which took the opportunity to introduce its full lineup of 1959 model year cars. * Anybody who recalls the Audi unintended acceleration scandal of the Eighties is probably amazed the brand was able to bounce back at all. These PR cleanup-duty videos that Tamerlane dug up this week show part of Audi's effort to keep ...Read On>>
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1990 Buick Reatta convertible Posted by Kurt Ernst - Buick's limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it's certainly not a bad-looking car, and being a Buick, its ride is comfortable, if not particularly sporting. Yes, Reatta coupes and convertibles had a few issues early on, but by now those have long since been sorted by previous owners. Take this 1990 Reatta convertible, for sale on Hemmings.com, by way of example. One of the 2,132 drop-top m...Read On>>
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Faster than a Corvette? GMC's Syclone sport truck celebrates a quarter-century Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photos by Jeff Koch. Over the years, as the rumors go, plenty of GM-built performance vehicles either got spiked, squashed, detuned, or hush-hushed to protect the Corvette's reputation as the prime speed machine in the General's lineup. Only one of those, however, supposedly, as some say, came from truck brand GMC, the 1991 Syclone, which this year joins the list of small-c classics on its 25th anniversary. While the compact GMC S-15 dated back to 1982, it exhibited about zero difference whatsoever from its co...Read On>>
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New bill aims to place competition vehicles out of EPA's reach Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency's pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to thwart the EPA's oversight on competition vehicles by specifically excluding them from the Clean Air Act. House Resolution 4715, also known as the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016, specifically aims to remove race cars from the Clean Air Act's definition of "motor vehicle" and to exclude "any vehi...Read On>>
This Day in Automotive History | 3/13/1969: | Disney releases "The Love Bug," which cements the VW Beetle in the youth mind. | | 3/13/1974: | The Arab oil embargo finally ends |
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