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Swap Meet
Q: This may be an odd or weird question for HMM, but here goes. I’m restoring a 1987 Chevy G30 cutaway class C motorhome. It has a 5.7-liter engine with a three-speed automatic transmission. With that being said, I’m a Mopar man, so my knowledge of G
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Hemmings Muscle Machines
Jonathan Shaw, President Matthew Boice, Senior Vice President of Media EDITORIAL Douglas R. Glad, Head of ContentDan Stoner, Creative DirectorTerry McGean, Editor-in-Chief, Hemmings Muscle MachinesJerry Pitt, Managing EditorEvan Perkins, Director o
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My Favorite Month
So, right off the bat, I must acknowledge that I’m aware the cover date of this magazine and the calendar month when you’ll be reading it are probably not the same — most likely you’ll be seeing this in late March. Nonetheless, May, as the cover date
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Auction News
Mecum finished its 10-day auction with $275 million in total sales. Nearly 800 of the cars offered were American muscle and other high-performance models built from 1964 to 1972, and they changed hands at a rate of 74.2 percent. Among the muscle cars
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Gear
CARTECH PUBLISHING • 800-551-4754 CARTECHBOOKS.COM/CT690 • $36.95 With 2024 being the final model year of the sixth-generation Camaro, and Chevrolet having yet to announce a successor, the publication of automotive historian Scott Kolecki’s new title
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Backfire
I am now 82 years old and have been through what Jim McGowan is beginning to experience. I owned a new ’65 GTO that I bought right after graduating from college — what’s a little more debt, right? After I got married, I traded for a new ’68 GTO and t
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Ulterior Motives
RARELY DID THE STREET URCHINS gather before midnight in the dark corner of the mall parking lot; their surreptitious activities were put on hold until then for the streets to clear out and tarmac trawlers to make their rounds. Suddenly, a sinister bl
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Hemmingsauctions.com
HEMMINGS AUCTIONS IS OUR LIVE, ONLINE AUCTION site staffed by customer service professionals ready to help bidders and sellers with any questions. A wide variety of classic and specialty vehicles from all eras are up for bid. Auctions run for two wee
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Patriotic Palette
BY THE MID-’60S, the muscle car wars raged ever onward. Every year brought hotter powertrains, better traction, wilder style — all at a price that even the local grocery-store bag boy could afford. Winners and losers were determined between the light
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Mecum Auctions: Kissimmee 2024
WISCONSIN-BASED Mecum Auctions played host to the first sale of 2024, held in Kissimmee, Florida, January 2-14. The annual opener seemed to indicate that the classic car markets are still strong, as this sale broke all records with 4,383 cars crossin
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Ask Ray
Q: I have a 1985 Dodge Daytona with a 2.2-liter four-cylinder turbo engine. I have had this car since new and it now has 170,000 miles. The factory oil-pressure gauge, after many years, hasn’t been showing readings as high as it used to display. I in
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Fox Rehab
IF YOU’VE BEEN following along with our 1991 Mustang LX 5.0 project (see Parts 1 and 2 in HMM #247 and #248), you already know that we purchased the car as a follow up to the 1987 Camaro IROC-Z we’d “rehabbed” back in the fall of 2022. You may have e
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The Goods
ORIGINAL PARTS GROUP • 800-243-8355 • OPGI.COM • $299 After five decades, faded and cracked interior parts are often a problem. But, if you’re looking to spruce up your Pontiac’s cockpit, these new console bases will do just that. These detailed vacu
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American Influence
The first car I was ever able to get my hands on to really tinker with — on my own, with no one else looking over my shoulder — was an AMC product. It was a Gremlin of all things — a ’71, I think — and it was essentially abandoned in a neighbor’s bac
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Hemmings Muscle Machines
Jonathan Shaw, President Matthew Boice, Senior Vice President of Media EDITORIAL Douglas R. Glad, Head of ContentDan Stoner, Creative DirectorTerry McGean, Editor-in-Chief, Hemmings Muscle MachinesJerry Pitt, Managing EditorEvan Perkins, Director o
Hemmings Muscle Machines3 min read
Power Up (and Down)
DURING THE CORVETTE’S second generation, adding power windows when placing an order added about $60 to the car’s price. That doesn’t sound like much, but adjusted for inflation, that’s the equivalent of about $585 today. For power windows. An upgrade
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Auction News
The Branson Auction concluded with more than $2.4 million in total sales realized. Among those to cross the block was a 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible. It underwent a thorough restoration and had a 389 V-8 with an automatic transmission. The Ivory exte
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Swap Meet
Q:I want to change the engine in my 2000 Ford Mustang to a 5.3-liter Chevy Vortec engine. The Mustang has a T-5, which I’d like to use with the 5.3 Vortec so that I can retain stock speedometer function. Am I correct in understanding that my Ford T-5
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Backfire
My father, Paul Sonday Sr., purchased his 1974 Plymouth ’Cuda in November of 1973 at the age of 19 for $4,500 cash. He would spend the next 8-10 years customizing it to the ’70s “Street Machine” era. The exterior paint work was completed in September
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Mecum Auctions Las Vegas
L AS VEGAS IN EARLY November is quietly shaping up to be a car lover’s dream. The annual automotive aftermarket extravaganza of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show butts up against Mecum’s auction at the Las Vegas Convention
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Investing For The Future
TAKE A LONGhard look at this ’70 340 Challenger and it’s hard not to be impressed. It’s also hard not to have a smile break out when you see it, because the car is almost everything we love in a vintage muscle car. It’s the stance that comes from the
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Fast Friends
EVER BUY A CAR FROM A FRIEND?Or sell your car to a friend? We’re talking about a real friend — someone you’ve known a long time, with whom you’ve broken bread, whose family members know your family members. Under those circumstances, if the transfer
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Origin Story
I had an interesting email recently from an HMM reader requesting me to write about buying, owning, and building my ’65 GTO convertible over the years. I remember purchasing it from the original owners in 1984 in totally stock condition. They were a
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Period Pieces
It probably goes without saying that appreciation for muscle cars, particularly the original offerings of the ’60s and early ’70s, stems from the performance those machines offered. But the style and attitude of those cars was also a major part of wh
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The Goods
AMERICAN AUTOWIRE • 800-482-9473 • AMERICANAUTOWIRE.COM • $1,299 If you are looking to redo the wiring in your 1968-’70 Mopar B-body, you could take the opportunity to upgrade your electrical system with one of American Autowire’s update kits, which
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Fox Rehab
IN THE MARCH ISSUE, we revealed a new project vehicle that we’d acquired last summer to serve as the subject of our next Hemmings Garage video series. We’d done a prior series on an ’87 Camaro IROC in 2022, and it just seemed right that we’d do somet
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Hemmingsauctions.com
site staffed by customer service professionals ready to help bidders and sellers with any questions. A wide variety of classic and specialty vehicles from all eras are up for bid. Auctions run for two weeks, and qualified bidders place their bids ele
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Ask Ray
Q: I read your statement about how many people will spend thousands of dollars on speed parts but not hundreds on a dyno session. You raise an excellent point about checking for leaks and issues. This is why engine builders should have a test stand w
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Muscle Car Mecca
THERE ARE CAR SHOWS, the local community gatherings that celebrate the general cult of automotive interest, and there are automotive events—yearly milestones to anchor your calendar, deplete your time-off balance, and embark on a sacred pilgrimage to
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