CADILLAC CTS-V WAGON: BEAST OF BURDEN!

Posted on March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 by MartynL

Hemmings’ Mike McNessor blogs about Caddy’s family hauler - CADILLAC CTS-V WAGON: BEAST OF BURDEN - with a 6.2-liter LSA V-8 and available manual and automatic transmissions. Most vehicles degenerate into third- or fourth-hand beaters before clawing their way to collectability — assuming they survive the years of neglect and deferred maintenance. Not so with Cadillac’s 2011-’14 CTS-V Wagons. The newest of these factory hot-rod Caddy haulers turned 10 years old in 2024 and their collecti...

ANGLO-AMERICAN-ITALIAN NASH-HEALEY

Posted on July 18, 2023July 18, 2023 by MartynL

Hemmings’ Mike McNessor blogs about the hybrid ANGLO-AMERICAN-ITALIAN NASH-HEALEY, its heritage, and current values. When you think of historic Le Mans champions, you picture Porsches, Ferraris, Aston Martins, and Jaguars howling down the Mulsanne straight. But in 1952, a Nash inline-six-powered Nash-Healey lightweight racer bested all of those greats, earning a class win and third place overall behind the dominant Mercedes-Benz 300 Gullwing SLs. That year was the best showing of the ANGLO-A...

RPO Z11: CHEVY 427 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT

Posted on May 17, 2022 by MartynL

By checking off RPO Z11 on a 1963 Chevrolet new car order form, you could buy a factory-built racecar. Only 57 people made that choice before GM pulled the plug. Hemmings’ Mike McNessor writes about the rare RPO Z11: CHEVY 427 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. She’s so fine my… 427? Clearly not 1960s radio gold. But among Chevrolet W-engine enthusiasts, more poetic words were never written. The 427-cubic-inch Mark I big block was part of the factory-lightweight 1963 Z-11 package built to win rounds in quarter...