By Paul Stenquist / Originally Published June 16, 2015 / Hagerty / Whether you have a deep personal connection to your vehicle or consider it just transportation, proper care and feeding is a smart policy. For the most part, common sense will serve as a reasonable guide in making those decisions. Not so when it comes to ...

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If you’ve ever worked on your car, you know there are times when a nut or bolt has gone missing. Or maybe you’re restoring a classic car and you need a whole host of bolts to attach all of the parts you’ve found in Pomona? Well, that’s where TMK Fasteners comes in. TMK specializes in ...

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By Benjamin Preston / Originally Published June 9, 2015 / Hagerty / Summer has arrived, and with it, show season. If you’ve decided to enter your car into a show, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to a national-level concours or the neighborhood cruise; you want your ride to look its best. In judged shows, the ...

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So remember that disastrous sinkhole incident at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky. last year? Eight Corvettes fell over thirty feet after the earth opened up under the museum’s Skydome. Well, the hole has been completely filled (with limestone and sand), and the incident actually turned out to be a major positive for the museum. Although only ...

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It’s true, a lot of classic cars are extremely valuable and expensive to own. If you’re like me, you’ve watched Barrett-Jackson on TV and dreamed of one day being able to afford any of the beauties that cross their auction block. High market prices can sometimes make it difficult for the average person to own ...

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By Hagerty / Originally Published May 20, 2015 / Hagerty / The original air-cooled VW Beetle was in production from about 1946 until the early 2000s when production finally wound down in Mexico. Throughout that time, the differences in appearance were subtle at best. VW’s own ad campaign made light of the fact that the annual model year changes ...

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No two ways about it, we Americans love our cars. And a lot of us love to customize them, soup them up, hop them up, rod them out, or otherwise modify them so that they stand out in a crowd (or so they’re faster and louder). We turn them into hot rods, rat rods, street rods and ...

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By Jeff Peek / Originally Published May 18, 2015 / Hagerty / Margaret Dunning, the car-loving centenarian who became something of a celebrity and earned the nickname “Belle of the Concours” after showing her 1930 Packard in the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, has died. Dunning, of Plymouth, Mich., would have celebrated her 105th birthday next month. ...

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By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published May 13, 2015 / Hagerty / Of the 100,085 1969 Mercury Cougars produced, 66,351 were hardtops, and 510 of those came with the Ram Air 428SCJ-4V engine. Automatic transmissions were installed in 304 of the 510. From there, 162 were equipped with the Eliminator Package, of which 61 were painted bright ...

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With nicknames like the Goat, the Tiger and the Great One, the 1964 Pontiac GTO quickly earned a reputation as a true American muscle car (especially when equipped with the 348 hp Tri-Power engine). The GTO began as nothing more than a $296 extra-equipment package available on the $2,480 Pontiac Tempest LeMans. The GTO package included a floor shifter, ...

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By Chris Paukert / Originally Published May 11, 2015 / Hagerty The automotive landscape is littered with new model nameplates that started out capturing the world’s imagination, only to end up as shells of their former selves through a labyrinth of bad corporate decisions and even worse luck. Here are five prime examples of cars that started ...

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A classic car in your driveway is a beautiful sight. It’s almost as beautiful as a classic car on the road. After watching hours of reality garage shows on the Discovery Channel and seeing the veteran gear-heads from your neighborhood rolling down the road in their sweet rides, maybe you’ve decided that it’s your turn. Now you just need to know how ...

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