A nicely restyled body made Chevy news in 1956, while all model series nomenclature (150, 210, Bel Air) carried over unchanged. The Stovebolt six remained standard and the coveted 265 V-8 was again an ...

Yet as much as the flathead spawned hot-rodding, hot-rodding undoubtedly helped shape the flathead and, more broadly, the all-American obsession with horsepower that still rules today. Contrary to the ...

We may have been doing this wrong all along. With cylinder heads, that is. Back when it all began, steam was the start—how we first captured heat energy from fuel and put it to work. More than a ...

The Celestiq honors the Eldorado Brougham with this etching on its center console. However, it’s a ’57, not one of the later, Italian-built models. Cameron Neveu Increasing volume was always going to ...

It was easy to postulate that the Zastava facility typified a communist factory of 1986. And equally easy to criticize a quality-control department whose instruments of choice were hefty wooden ...

One of the things no one tells you about Ohio is that it’s beautiful. South of Columbus, the midwestern monotony of cornfields and industrial sprawl gives way to red-streaked rock, winding waterways, ...

In 1969, while visiting the Turin auto show, VW’s Director and the company’s main Italian importer totted up a list of their six favorite cars from the show and sat down to compare notes. As it turned ...

In the car world, we hear the word “preservation” quite a bit. For many, it means an uncompromising reverence for all-original classic automobiles that are just as they were when they were new, or ...

At first glance, the big, grey, half-faired Nova looked like just another member of Harley’s V-twin touring family. But its engine, developed in conjunction with Porsche, was an 800-cc, liquid-cooled ...

This story has several origins, including the start of the World Rally Championship in 1973 and the subsequent set of regulations introduced for the 1982 season called Group B that, for a short period ...

In the early 1980s, Mazda was flush with capital from record sales and already deep in the design process for the next generation of the RX-7. Having proven to the world that it could solve ...

The mission of the subcompact Chevrolet Vega was clear from the beginning of the program in 1968: to be the best affordable small car in America, if not the world. It was designed top-to-bottom to ...