So the title starts with “American V8s Power…” aaaaaand there’s a V10 car in there, aaaaaaaaand no mention of one of the coolest British cars using a Chrysler big block V8, the Jensen Interceptor. Either admit your stupidity or sign up for a 12 step program and quit drinking on the job! You need help. ... View more

Although I’d love to own a ‘69 Hurst SC/Rambler, I have to say that AMC’s big issue is in the little design details. They had great ideas that were oddly executed and just not quite as cool looking as the big 3’s version of whatever. Body lines, taillights, scoops, spoilers, shifters, dash clusters, upholstery… all of it had this weird “meh” factor. Low sales created a tiny future aftermarket for restoration parts. They’re expensive to restore and you’ll lose your shorts on them as an investment. Still, fun cars and unique at shows. ... View more

That bus would have sold like bananas in the inland northwest U.S. IF AND ONLY IF VW would have added a dual Weber 1800cc with about triple the HP. Stock VW busses can’t get out of their own way. No need to change the wheel wells. Just drop that engine and drivetrain 4 inches and put huge tires and flares on it. ... View more

Good article, but yeah, no. You’re wrong about the term “hemispherical”. A shape doesn’t have to represent a complete hemisphere or half-sphere to be deemed hemispherical in geometry. Imagine a bowl that is a half sphere. Now pour any amount of water into that bowl. The shape the water now occupies is hemispherical because it takes on the precise geometry consistent with the formula for a perfect sphere. They are not called “hemisphere heads”. They are hemispherical heads. Mathematically representative of a perfect sphere, which in this case, is larger than the diameter of the cylinder and described just like the crater left when the earth is struck by a spherical meteor. As mentioned by others, Toyota, Jaguar, Ford, Mazda etc all had engines with heads they referred to as Hemi heads. Stop the advertising gimmick conspiracy train. The name correctly represents the design. Your argument only detracts from a really fine article and misleads people who don’t know better. ... View more

One of my millionaire dreams is to buy a restored ‘70s vintage Indy car, have it detuned a bit and set up for road course racing just to attend track days and blast around the circuit. How much fun would that be? ... View more

Mmmmmmmmmm! Catfish! ... View more

Barrett-Jackson. Ruining the car hobby for the little guy, one car at a time. ... View more

Never heard of this! Fun story. They must have left the stock ride height so that it looked like a factory van flying down the track. That thing handled atrociously for 1971 track standards. They should have dropped it off with Carol Shelby. He would have had 3” off the ground, eating for lunch, doing 0-60 in 4 seconds, and running 11 second et’s. 😄 ... View more

Most deflating car video I’ve ever seen. Reminded me of the fluffy wedding videos they shoot now. You had one job... SHOW US THE CAR. ... View more

Two drunk millionaires must have been bidding on that resto mod corvette. Pretty car, but for that money, it kinda makes me feel nauseous. ... View more

Spot on. It took 7 years of stolen evenings and weekends to restore my car. It’s hard work. I have a critical eye for craftsmanship. After doing my own car, when I go to shows I don’t see flaws. I just feel respect. ... View more

You may be right. I mean, what’s not to love about a car with a boring rubber interior, 60 year old body lines, and an engine that sounds like a VW Beetle? Porsche for the win! Seriously. I wasn’t comparing performance, but then again that’s not what the article was about, right? ... View more

Call me crazy but I’m going Firechicken all the way on this one. Make it a three-pedal WS6, please. Porsche needs to change their game. At least Pontiac knew when to let a design go. ... View more

Soooooo many RIGHT things about this car but it definitely lost the balance the stock body had going for it. Specifically something weird going on with the sail panels and rear quarters. There is also an issue with the front bumper. Looks like it’s tipping back a hair. The grill is the biggest eyesore. Like maybe the charger made a baby with a 1968 Torino. ... View more

California? C’ya! Wouldn’t wanna be’ya! Good news for all of us. ... View more

Thank you for the warm fuzzies. Great story. She’ll always cherish that car.  And that whole thing about building a clone?  Not a worry. The folks that appreciate it the most won’t know the difference and if you tell them, they won’t even care. The point is that it’s a bitchin’ ride.  ... View more

That’s an unflattering photo. Those are beautiful cars, and with the N96 Air Grabber option and Hurst pistol grip, they were really cool. The thing many don’t know is that the 1971 model came a year late. It was being designed for the 70 model year and stalled, so dodge and Plymouth changed the front and rear sheet metal on the 68-69 B body to spruce it up a bit to run along side the new E body barracuda and Challenger platform. If you look at the fuselage design of the 71 satellite up next to a 70 barracuda you can see the sister-like similarities. I’m glad the design studios blew it. We got the 1970 Coronet R/T and Superbee and the 1970 Roadrunner out of the deal. Two of the toughest looking muscle cars ever built. ... View more

The article was fun but the concept photos we’re a bit ridiculous. The XLR is a modern hint. Look at a 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona or the Maserati Ghibli Spider and you’ll see something of what Cadillac would have done. Keep the windshield, cowl and doors. All the sharp body creases would have been smoothed, widened and blended. Hood bulge? Not on a Cadillac. ... View more

Thank you for using the Chrysler A12 Roadrunner on the photo. Not only is it the most functional scoop ever produced (not the Challenger T/A) due to how high it sits above the static air boundary layer so that it actually scooped forced air, but it is iconic for being part of the only mass produced fiberglass lift-off hood ever to see mass production. If you wanted to check the oil at the filling station, you were going to need the pump attendant’s help setting that hood on your roof! ... View more

I hope they put the hellcat engine in everything. The more of them that are out there the better chance I find a wrecked one someday so that I can load my 1970 super be with the bad boy engine.  ... View more

Nobody, and I mean nobody restores an 1970s-1980s vehicle to stock, gas crunch era, emissions regulated, low-compression, low-horsepower, low-fun standards. Tesla is killing it with high-torque, high-hp motors. Starting out with a crate motor in a Blazer with the horsepower suitable for a Yugo is embarrassing.  ... View more

Hagerty,  if you want to highlight a classic Chinese built car, fine, but please don’t glamorize, endorse or give free ad space to corrupt Chinese manufacturing.  We don’t want to see it, even if it is tongue in cheek coverage of an ugly Corvette knock off.   They’ve blatantly stolen billions of dollars in trademarked, copyrighted and patented physical, electronic and intellectual property from hard-working Americans for long enough.   ... View more

The 70 Coronet requires removal of the windshield to remove the dash. Having purchased a painted rolling shell with the front and rear glass previously installed, the dash completely gutted of its components, I did what real men do:  Leave the new windshield in and lay on my back on the floorboards of the car for days on end rewiring it and reinstalling everything while looking at it upside down, doing much of the work by feel. Opting to go with the American Autowire Highway 15 wiring kit rather than a reproduction harness added to the challenge which included designing subharnesses by hand. I even kept the bulkhead connector! In the end it was well worth the effort and achy back.  ... View more