Bitten by the muscle-car bug in high school, teenager Justin Hertel began drag-racing a 1970 Chevelle with his growing group of gearhead friends. “I was in the market for a car, and my buddies loved ...

After carving 43 miles of smooth asphalt that rises through meadows and dense forest on its way to a mile-high peak, a driver might conclude that the Cherohala Skyway was made purely for the fun of it ...

I’ll tell you a secret: The Tail of the Dragon is not the best road in the South. It’s not even the best road in Tennessee or North Carolina. On those rare, bright Saturdays when I wake up with ...

One outfit we don’t talk about much around here: Abarth. The Italian performance brand is known for its accomplishments in racing, but the values of its cars generally lag behind the big dogs like ...

The recipe is simple: drop a potent small-block into a curvy roadster and hold on for dear life. It worked when Carroll Shelby created the Cobra, and the Sunbeam Tiger, for that matter. When Dodge ...

Over the last many years, I have noticed the size of tires on cars the public is offered just keeps increasing. When I was a teen, the most common [wheel and] tire size was 14” with some 13” and 15” ...

1960 was a near miss for Lincoln. You see, back in 1958, Lincoln attempted to out-Cadillac Cadillac. The new ’58 models were bigger and more luxurious than ever before. And the elegant 1956-57 ...

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 ...

Apologies to Freddie Mercury, but I couldn’t help but think of his “And bad mistakes, I’ve made a few” line from “We Are the Champions” when Kyle Smith suggested this week that we share our most ...

Since the beginning of time, automakers and, by proxy, car enthusiasts, have been sticking big engines in cars originally intended for less power. The quest for more muscle is never-ending, and ...

Hey everybody, It’s Improv Night at Our Two Cents! That’s an odd sentence to type out for a Hagerty Media article, but this is indeed happening. Maybe this is a team-building exercise, and I might be ...

We may be serious nerds for data analysis at Hagerty Insider, and we cover sales big and small, but our love for cars keeps us in touch with the simpler pleasures: convertibles, 1990s luxury coupes, ...