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A routine buying trip turns into a masterclass in stubbornness when the Fast N’ Loud crew meets a lifelong car hoarder sitting on a private collection spanning a Ford Model A to a four-speed Corvette. The owner’s refrain — some version of ‘I like cars, a fella can’t have too many’ — became the segment’s most quoted line years after it aired. Whether Richard walks away with a deal is the real question.
For nearly three decades, Sonoma County’s Father’s Day ‘Show & Shine’ has turned a public park into an open-air museum of stock rides, hot rods, rat rods, and low riders. The Engineering Contractors Association-run event skips the velvet-rope treatment of concours shows in favor of trophies for character, like Best Flames, Best Rat Rod, and Best Engine, alongside the usual categories. Free for spectators and open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., it’s become less about the cars and more about the dads and kids who show up together every year.
Only seven 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertibles were ever built, and that scarcity has turned each surviving example into a seven-figure event whenever one reaches auction. Recent sales have ranged from 3.3 million dollars at Mecum Kissimmee to bids as high as 4.8 million that still were not enough to close a deal. Just how high can the market push a car this rare?
Drag racing has its own private language, built from decades of garage tinkering and the founding of the NHRA in 1951 to take dangerous street racing off public roads. Terms like holeshot, Christmas Tree, and cutting a zero separate real insiders from casual fans. Heres where the culture, and its slang, actually came from.
Choosing between a Tremec TKX five-speed and a Magnum six-speed for a classic car swap comes down to a tradeoff most builders don’t expect: torque capacity versus tunnel space. The Magnum handles up to 700 lb-ft and revs to 7,800 rpm with noticeably smoother shifts, but at 12.25 inches wide it usually demands cutting into a pre-1990s transmission tunnel. The TKX trades some capability for a slimmer 10.5-inch width that often bolts in without any modification at all.
More than 200 classic, sport, and muscle cars filled Saratoga Spa State Park for the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s 15th annual spring show. The museum itself is housed in a repurposed 1930s bottling plant and runs a full calendar of shows, auctions, and exhibitions well beyond this single weekend. Here’s what makes this stop a fixture of the Northeast car show circuit.
This 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu underwent a complete frame-off restoration and has logged just 15,000 miles since, now running a 5.3-liter LS V8, a Quick Performance 9-inch rear end, and a full RideTech suspension. Listed out of Ubly, Michigan for $59,000, it pairs SS badging and classic sheet metal with genuinely modern mechanicals. Read on to find out everything that went into this build.
Muscle cars becoming a legitimate investment category is not hype, rare, documented examples really have sold for millions. But newer market data shows the picture has gotten more selective: overall auction prices have softened while specific models like the Plymouth GTX keep climbing and younger buyers chase a different era entirely. Here is what is actually happening in the collector muscle car market right now, versus the boom narrative everyone remembers.
A barn-find 1970 Ford Mustang convertible sitting in the Netherlands hides a genuinely strange secret: factory all-wheel drive, engineered by the same British company that later built the world’s first production AWD car, the Jensen FF. Missing its engine and front drive unit after decades of neglect, it may be the only convertible Mustang ever converted this way. Read on for how a tractor company ended up building AWD Mustangs for Ford.
Muscle cars don’t fail the way modern daily drivers do — they fail from sitting still, wrong parts, and skipped basics like waxing and monthly drives. A little consistent care, from garage storage to a 30-minute drive once a month, is the difference between a car that holds its value and one that quietly turns into an expensive project. Read on for the maintenance habits that actually matter.
A field of 461 classic and collector cars rolled across the block in Portland over a single June weekend, but one blue-and-black Camaro with an unusually clean paper trail ended up outselling everything else in the building. The final tally topped $7.9 million by the time the last gavel fell. Here’s which cars actually commanded the biggest numbers.
When ClassicCars.com broke down its 2016 search data state by state, the results revealed a near-perfect 20-to-20 split between Ford and Chevrolet loyalists nationwide. One nameplate, though, blew past every other vehicle with nearly 3.7 million searches on its own. Only one state broke from domestic muscle entirely, and it wasn’t for a car most people would guess.
An Idaho potato farmer spent decades in the fields before retiring in 1994 and turning his attention to something entirely different: finding and restoring old cars. By the time he passed in 2013, his collection ranged from a Model T to Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, with some counts topping 80 vehicles. Here’s the story behind the auction that finally brought his collection to public view.