For more than two decades, the Camaro that Paul Walker’s character jumped onto a yacht at the end of 2 Fast 2 Furious sat in a Georgia shop without an engine, its body crumpled and its cabin full of leftover parts. The man behind it is Sam Hard, a British mechanic who runs the YouTube channel Hard Up Garage. He spent years asking to buy the car, sold two of his own cars to pay…
In the early 1980s, the American V8 was in trouble. Emissions rules and fuel economy targets had squeezed the big engines hard. Detroit’s engineers…
Ask anyone to name an American muscle car and you will hear the same handful: GTO, Chevelle SS, Road Runner, Mustang, Camaro, Charger. They…
Detroit in the 1950s and early 1960s had a strange habit. It built its plainest, cheapest family cars, the ones with rubber mats and…
The 1959 Chevrolet looked like nothing else on the road, with gull-wing fins, cat’s-eye taillights and eyebrows over the grille. For 1960, Chevrolet calmed…
In 1956, a Mercury buyer could get a 312-cubic-inch V8 and a rubber floor mat in the same car. No carpet, no bumper guards,…
On July 7, 1959, Ford photographed a prototype compact station wagon with large EDSEL letters on its side. Four months later, the Edsel brand…
The Edsel is remembered as the car nobody wanted. That is only half the story. When Ford decided to build it, nearly everyone in…
Look at a 1957 Ford Custom 300 today and you see a family sedan. Two doors or four, a bench seat, armrests and a…
Mercury’s advertising for 1955 made a bold promise: “You don’t have to look twice to tell it’s a Mercury!” Underneath, the car shared its…
