...  Driving the Bud Moore-prepared Boss 302 Mustang in 1970. As the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, Jones focused primarily on Trans-Am racing (where his 1970 driver’s championship also earned Ford ...

... of the race’s 10 decades, and while Ferrari won the race six straight times during the 1960s in different cars, the title of top Le Mans car of that decade instead went to Ford’s GT40. Beyond ...

... for sale after resting in a garage for 40 years. Thomas was certainly no unknown quantity in Chevrolet performance during the 1950s and 1960s. An engineer by training, the Southern Californian took an ...

Mazda Cosmo Coupe. Photo courtesy Mazda. At the dawn of the 1960s, Mazda was a little-known Japanese manufacturer of light-duty trucks, with a single urban commuter car (the R-360) to its credit. Like ...

... in the eyes of U.S. buyers. 1954 Volkswagen Beetle chassis. Image courtesy of OldCarBrochures.com. Sales grew throughout the 1960s, spurred in part by continuous product improvements. In 1964, Volkswagen ...

Craig Breedlove, with the original Spirit of America. Photo courtesy NHRA Museum. For those coming of age in the 1960s or 1970s, the name Craig Breedlove is indelibly linked to the quest to be the fastest ...

... to see rare cars like this, a 1965 Glas 1300 GT Coupe. Let’s take a closer look at this stylish machine. BMW may have hit a home run with its neue klasse cars in the 1960s, but its easy to forget ...

... motorcycles. * Finally, Who were those girls in the Dodge Fever ad campaigns of the late 1960s? Robert Tate at Motorcities tells the tale. Original: Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts ...

... is the Visa about anyway? The development of the Visa dates back to the mid 1960s, when Citroen started work on a car to replace the 2CV with modern design in the same segment. After a couple false starts ...

... the 1960s and 1970s. Starting out at Lime Rock Park near his hometown of Sharon, Connecticut, he advanced rapidly through the ranks of club racing to compete in the Can-Am and Trans-Am series plus Formula ...

What we love about this video that went behind the scenes at Ford design sometime in the late 1960s – besides the glimpses of cars that never were – are What we love about this video that went behind ...

... how cars went from concept to showroom floor. Though GM’s desire to build a competitive compact car dated back to the early 1960s, it wasn’t until 1967 that the design for the Vega was presented ...

... 1960s, you’re not far off. Acceleration doesn’t seem quite as brisk as Car and Driver‘s 8.7-second 0-60 might indicate, but the boost is all in by 2,800 RPM; the run up to 6,500 RPM is ...

... a Ford GT40 Mk. II. The following year, partnered with Mario Andretti, he’d deliver a second win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, driving a GT40 Mk. IV. As the 1960s came to a close, McLaren spent his ...

For those of you who’ve noted the lack of trucks in previous Texas-based carspotting posts, feast your eyes on this 1960s shot of the Allen and Bazoon Garage somewhere in Cleveland, Texas, courtesy ...

...  I like the crisp lines of those early 1960s Pontiacs. This creation was way cool: Probably based on a 1959 El Camino, it had 1960 Caddy rear quarters and fins and a 1961 Caddy front. To me ...

... on opportunities. I’ve had people ring me up – I met Steve Tremulis who owns the Gyronaut X-1, a motorbike that was a land speed record holder in the 1960s-1970s, and was designed by Tucker ...

... than could be said for parts from many other small Italian manufacturers of the 1960s and 1970s. Here’s a car that probably doesn’t come to mind when you hear Chrysler V-8. The Facel Vega II used a 6.3-liter ...

... modified cars from all eras and a sprinkling of hot rods and muscle trucks. The racing was good, too, with the usual round of brackets plus some exhibition runs from a pair of 1960s-style altered wheelbase ...

... it up for sale came to me. It’s a 1960s Skoda Octavia Combi, and it used to be red. It’s spent years and years in a forest, so it’s a little bit earthy to say the least. It’s not ...