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STRANGE DAYS INDEED

Classic American

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Auctions go online

Silverstone’s GT40 rarity

Chinese Lincolns

H & H Vanishing Point Challenger

BRONCO’S AFRICAN AMERICAN ROOTS

Fast & Furious Lego Charger

GALE HALDERMAN 1933-2020 • Gale Halderman, the designer who helped shape Mustangs and Lincolns, has died.

Stars & Stripes cancelled

There’s Never ANYTHING Good On… • With many of us currently stuck at home unable to go for a drive, now’s the time to rediscover some of the American car-themed programmes available on satellite TV, catch-up or online…

Covid-19 and classics • Evans contemplates the impact of the coronavirus on the stateside classic car market.

Calspan/Chrysler Research Safety Vehicle • ‘Safety cars’ were a Seventies concept fad. Richard looks at Chrysler’s offering from 1976 which ticked all the boxes: ugly, unremarkable and ultimately forgotten…

Wellborn Museum • Tony heads to the deep South to discover Hi Po heaven at Tim Wellborn’s eponymous museum, crammed with Pentastar treasures and other muscle car memories…

Mail

Resto-mod 1962 Corvette SECRET WEAPON • This resto-mod 1962 Corvette roadster is one man’s ideal of a classic supercar - but you have to look carefully to spot the clues…

Shooting Star • Marc Lamude’s daily driver Comet might appear stock at first glance, but there’s a lot of work that’s gone into creating one heck of a monster Mercury, as Keith Harman finds out…

Fast Freddie’s Famous Ford • If you're a fan of NASCAR racing, there can be no greater tribute than a remarkable recreation of one of the ‘winningest’ cars of Ford's Total Performance era: ‘Fast Freddie’ Lorenzen's 1965 Ford Custom. Meet one man who did just that...

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More-door rarity • Over the years, most enthusiasts craved the two-door coupes as being the more desirable model and consequently many four-door cars were either scrapped or used for banger racing, which has meant the four-door models have ironically become quite rare nowadays…

Americans at the Motor Show The Last Years of the Big Yanks and the Swinging Sixties • Geoff Carverhill concludes his look at American cars at the Earls Court Motor Show during the Sixties, with photographs from the Steve Miles Collection and the files of Autocar.

“UNKL” MACH 1 • Ringbrothers, creator of some of the most innovative and beautiful vehicles in the world, debuted its latest automotive creation, the “UNKL” Mach 1, on the Flowmaster (Holley) stand at last year’s SEMA Show. We take a closer look away from the bright lights of Vegas…

SPECIFICATION

Ringbrothers

Cherry Bomb • It took two years to turn a ’57 Chevy 210 rolling shell into a dazzling, 700bhp, flip-front gasser. We got the inside story of this head-turning build that’s become a show favourite right across the US…

TECH SPEC • Cherry Bomb

Wired up

Scale autos

DISCOVERIES • Our intrepid salvage yard explorer brings you junkyard jewels from across North America.

Bargain Book Corner Street Sleepers

How to Restore Your Chevy Truck 1947-1955

New Hemi Engines 2003-Present – How to Rebuild

1965 Buick Sport Wagon • Vendor: Andy Inglis, Chesham, Buckinghamshire Telephone:...