Limited production BLAZIN RODZ 1,600-HP ’69 CAMARO HYPERCAR features a carbon fiber body and twin-turbo V8, plus an electric motor! The Orange County, CA-based Blazin Rodz hot rod shop that went viral at SEMA 2024 with its ‘70 Chevrolet Chevelle “Doughboy,” returns this year with an even more ambitious project. The first-of-its-kind, limited-production hybrid Hypercar redefines […]
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the FORD 2005-’06 GT: ALL-AMERICAN SUPERCAR, from Concept to production, plus a buying guide. Hemmings’ Mark J. McCourt covers all bases. Being a Ford GT40 and Mark IV nerd, a longtime friend of the late Roy Lunn, above, the Godfather of the 1966-1969 Le Mans winning racecars ( […]
Hemmings Motor News’ Mike McNessor does a deep dive on SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER, starting in 1906! When you discuss maximizing an engine’s volumetric efficiency, you are: –Boring everybody else at the party (as usual); –Explaining to your spouse why it’s crucial that you drop a couple of grand on a supercharger for your sports […]
Chevrolet has been producing Corvettes for more than seven decades, since the ’53 CORVETTE: BIRTH OF AN ICON broke cover at the 1953 GM Motorama. How do you chronicle a legend? How do you put on paper the story of an automobile that is so much more than the automobile itself? That the Corvette has […]
Coke-bottle-restyled ’68 PONTIAC RAM AIR GTO: THE GREAT ONE, plus Royal Pontiac Bobcat editions, enhanced the GTO’s youth-market performance appeal. Pontiac’s GTO created and dominated the Supercar marketplace in 1964 and, in 1968, was downsized and restyled. GM’s successful Supercar formula that started it all showcased a 115-inch wheelbase, two-door coupes with large displacement engines, […]
All new styling and engine options up to and including the 429 SCJ turn the Fairlane into the ’70 FORD TORINO COBRA, a maximum muscle Supercar. The new year ushered in bigger, more powerful engines, new specialty Supercars, and a plethora of Ponycars. But the future of the performance car phenomenon was not bright. In […]
The 1951-1954 NASH-HEALEY: ANGLO-AMERICAN-ITALIAN SPORTS CAR beat the Corvette to the marketplace, but only lasted four model years. 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 […]
There were bigger-engined and more powerful performance cars from the competition, but the ’64 PONTIAC GTO IGNITES THE SUPERCAR REVOLUTION! Pontiac called it “A device for shrinking time and distance.” Magazine writers and editors called it a “Supercar”. And, from coast to coast, enthusiasts flocked to Pontiac dealers to see the new GTO, an option […]
Some of our members do more than “break bread & tell lies “at our lunches. Here are some examples of ON TRACK W/FLORIDA’S SARASOTA CAFÉ RACERS! Few enthusiast events have the appeal of the Goodwood Revival, and one of ON TRACK W/FLORIDA’S SARASOTA CAFÉ RACERS! Howard Mintz just came back from an exhilarating trip to […]
Car Guy Chronicles’ Jim Palam wrangles highlights from CARS & COWBOYS 2025, this year’s outstanding car show and fundraiser. The similarities are striking: Their lives are driven by an ethos of character, tradition, purpose, and independence. We’re talking about Car Guys and Cowboys, of course, who, along with Car Gals and Cowgirls, trekked up the […]
