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There’s a particular kind of quiet confidence that surrounds a well-used classic car. Not the kind polished into perfection, but the kind earned through decades of miles, stories, and stewardship.  On a bright summer day at Lime Rock Park—where the hills echo with vintage engines and the air feels suspended in time—that confidence lives in […]

Month in Motoring November November was the official start of the holiday season. And with that, car collectors sometimes face challenges that most people do not. Requests are made for classic cars to participate in parades and other events meant to bring happiness to communities. And that’s a wonderful thing, but as owners of collector

Some Mustangs start life as a production car, get a few upgrades, and earn their “special” badge later. And then there’s the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD—a car that technically begins on the same production line as every other Mustang, then is transformed into something else entirely. Steve Coats, Ford’s Mustang GTD delivery specialist, puts it

Some cars impress you because they’re fast. Others because they’re rare.  And then there are cars like the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz—machines so extravagant that they feel more like rolling declarations of an era than vehicles at all. At the Fisher’s Spark Car Show, Dan Oul stands beside his 1959 Eldorado Biarritz convertible with the

From Rusted Relic to Doc Hudson: The Five-Year Restoration Story of Joe Wilcox For some car lovers, restoration is a hobby. For others, it’s an art. For Joe Wilcox, it’s a lifelong calling rooted in speed, nostalgia, and a decades-deep love for Hudson automobiles. Joe is a former racer who spent 20 years behind the

Some drivers chase horsepower numbers. Others want trophies, lap records, or quarter-mile slips they can show off to their friends. But for Dave, owner of Icon Automotive in Troy, Michigan, performance has always meant something deeper. It’s not about whether a car runs a nine-second quarter-mile or a 10. It’s about how a machine feels

The “Horrendously Beautiful” One-Off: Dominic Hayatt and His Gemballa E30 At the Limerock Historic Festival 43 concours, surrounded by decades of motorsport heritage, there’s one car that doesn’t just stand out. People stop, stare, walk around it twice, and still aren’t sure what universe it came from. That car is Dominic Hayatt’s one-off Gemballa BMW

Month in Motoring, October 2025  End of the Season For many car collectors in northern states, October signals the end of car season. It’s the time that cars head into storage and off-season repairs and maintenance take place.   For those owners with a single collector car, the opportunity to spend months going over it, without

Month in Motoring, September 2025 The Resurgence of Early Autos Something old is new again. This is a saying that may have many meanings, but when it comes to collecting cars, the Stan Lucas car collection auctioned by Gooding Christie’s grabs that saying by the wheel. The Evolution of Car Collecting  It’s a fact that

When Phil Riley drives his 1963 Pontiac Tempest pro street car through Indianapolis, he’s not just turning heads; he’s rewriting the rules of what a classic Pontiac should be. In a world where hot rodders gravitate toward predictable colors and cookie-cutter builds, Phil chose brown paint, massive rear tires, and an 800-horsepower engine that runs