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The hiss was fading, but as I sat down on the soft gravel shoulder of the road, I could still hear the steam escaping from the gap between the cylinder head and...
That was the greatest car,” my grandpa says as I hand him a black-and-white photo of his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible. “I drove that to California … 1955....
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” If not for the dated sy...
Mike Watt is one of the most influential American musicians alive today, and he doesn’t need much of an introduction for anyone who listens to punk, funk, or an...
The kids are grown, and the house is sold, but the Cadillac is still in your garage. It’s one of the good ones: fins, chrome, leather, and high-pile carpet. Kee...
It only came in a handful of colors, and there were only a handful of options. It had one engine with one power rating mated to one transmission, with one suspe...
Wind on the Palouse is relentless. It’s been that way since the last ice age, a million years or more. It’s the wind that made this place, and the hills th...
You can jump them. Not in a “little too much speed over the railroad crossing” way, but in the “yeah, point and pin it—lift-off in five” type of way. People at...
You might not know it, but cars with computers under their skins are way smarter than you think. We see with our sensors, remember with our modules, and even dr...
A couple years back, I went to Nissan’s Tennessee HQ to drive a few of their heritage vehicles, which they had let out for a small gathering of journalists. The...
The Music City is louder than ever. Over the past 25 years, Nashville’s population has ballooned by some 25 percent. In 2023 alone, the city’s chamber of commer...
Paul Russell is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and respected figures in the world of classic automobile restoration. Over several decades, he h...
Time waits for no one. It certainly wasn’t waiting for us on a Thursday morning last fall at Ace Speedway. The 4/10-mile oval in Altamahaw, North Carolina, buil...
On a Tuesday afternoon last winter at the lowest point in North America shimmered a vast, white moonscape called Badwater Basin. Lying just behind an idling 196...
It’s almost midnight and the sun has yet to dip below the horizon. There’s a purple glow in the sky and a warm glow in my heart as I look at the sinewy stretch...
On a hill just behind The Lodge at Pebble Beach on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the world’s most exclusive traffic jam starts before sunrise every third Sun...
Chew on that for a bit. We now live in an age when memes are born, flourish, and are forgotten over the course of a week. So how did the Offy manage to spend fo...
We’re standing near the entrance of the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, located in Ocala, Florida. It’s a comprehensive, full-day history lesson, packed with...
“All real race cars have to be right-hand drive,” Randy Grubb says, beaming, as he opens the right-side door of the low-slung, V-8–powered missile he only recen...
It took Robert Silguero a few minutes to find a video on his phone. It shows Silguero, a fifth-generation Kineño as the local cowboys are called, astride his ho...