By Rob Sass / Originally Published May 21, 2014 / Hagerty RM Auctions of Blenheim, Ontario, will be auctioning a rare open Ford GT40 prototype at its sale in Monterey, Calif., this August. Although the auction company hasn’t disclosed a pre-sale estimate, it will almost certainly be in eight figures and set a world record for ...

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By Marty K / Originally Published June 3, 2014 / Hagerty   The car bug bit me at a young age. I was 15 years old living in St. Louis, Missouri. My first car was a 1951 Plymouth two door that my uncle sold to me for $5, with the understanding that I would fix it ...

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Spring. It’s the season for college graduations, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day… and So Cal auto shows! If you’re a car enthusiast, you have no shortage of opportunities to show, buy, sell or trade classic cars and parts… or just to look and admire them! On May 3 and 4th, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles hosted a Mustang ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 4, 2014 / Hagerty As Americans, we’re used to our performance cars coming in relatively large packages— Tire-smoking muscle cars with big-block engines that proved there really was no substitute for cubic inches and no replacement for displacement. Or was there? The cars on this list are all ...

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It’s not every day that you get to see 20 or more Edsels on display in one place. Alright, insert the “never wanted to” joke here, but although these iconic vehicles were an enormous marketing failure for Ford, they were creatively designed and the Edsel offered several innovative features, among which were its “rolling dome” ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 11, 2014 / Hagerty Contrary to general perception, most classic cars aren’t fragile flowers.  In fact, many are anvil-tough, particularly American cars of the 1950s and 1960s, built with real Pennsylvania steel and very little plastic. But even these rolling bank vaults can be seriously screwed up by ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 18, 2014 / Hagerty In the run up to the big 50th anniversary of the Mustang, prices of the classic first version of the Mustang, the 1964½ (technically a 1965 model) through 1966, have been moving up. The best convertibles and fastbacks with the highest horsepower engines can ...

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Every classic car guy has heard a tail about an incredible barn find. Well, here’s another one! This time it was a rare 1969 428 Mustang Shelby GT500 hidden beneath 40 years of dust. Once the dust was cleared, this rare muscle car was found to be in mint condition. Some people have theorized that the ...

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American culture oozes with a fascination for the automobile that dates back over a hundred years, and depending on whose list of car clubs you’re using today, there are over 300 car clubs in Southern California…alone. Most car club memberships are typically diversified and organized along lines of common interests such as manufacturers; e.g., Ford ...

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By Yoav Gilad / Originally Published February 25, 2014 / Hagerty Editor’s Note: this analysis primarily considers the 1964½-1968 Mustang Regardless of whether you measure success in terms of sales, accolades, fans, buzz or the competition’s response, the first Mustang was an undeniable success. It was the perfect car at the perfect moment for an ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published February 28, 2014 / Hagerty The cop show genre goes back to the pre-TV days of radio (where you had to imagine what black and white your favorite cop was driving).  Here are some of our favorite full-size, rear-wheel-drive American cop cars from 60 years of the best cop ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published January 24, 2014 / Hagerty Six big collector car auctions concluded last weekend in Scottsdale, Ariz. While the extravaganza was anchored by the massive 1,400-car Barrett-Jackson sale, five other sales took place around the same time, all within a 40-mile radius. And in addition to the usual Corvettes, Mustangs and ...

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