The California Muscle Car Consortium was featured on the Main Aisle at the April 2019 Pomona Swap Meet… and they cruised in with some fierce American muscle. From blue ovals to bowties and some wicked Mopar, all of the Big Three were well-represented! The Consortium is an association of several muscle car groups from Los ...

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There’s nothing like a classic American muscle car to get your blood pumping. Speed, power, and good looking cars… that’s what it’s all about! And that’s why we’re excited to be hosting the California Muscle Car Consortium at our show on Sunday, April 14th! The California Muscle Car Consortium is an association of several muscle ...

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By Andrew Newton / Originally Published December 30, 2015 / Hagerty / In terms of values, the cars we generally think of as classics today tended to follow a certain pattern. Their value would depreciate significantly after a few years or after the next better, faster car came along, then they would be out in the world ...

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By Hagerty / Originally Published October 2, 2015 / Hagerty / Front-drivers aren’t universally loved by enthusiasts for a number of reasons. Their inability to perform a good, old-fashioned smoky burnout, coupled with handling defined by benign understeer rather than hairy-chested, opposite-lock oversteer, make front-wheel-drive cars — in the eyes of some — appropriate only for family ...

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By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published August 4, 2015 / Hagerty / Here is some good news for car enthusiasts everywhere: You don’t need an overflowing wallet to enjoy life with a classic car. There are a wide variety of vehicles to be found for under 5 grand that could tickle anyone’s fancy, including —but by no ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 28, 2015 / Hagerty Wheels, tires and stance make a huge difference in the appearance of any car. Swap steel wheels for a set of mags or alloys and it’s like looking at a completely different car. In no particular order, here are some of the most iconic post-war wheel ...

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“My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.” – Carroll Shelby On June 19, 1966, after turning over their racing program to Carroll Shelby, Ford did the unthinkable by finishing 1-2-3 in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, crushing the ...

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There are just not enough words to describe Carroll Shelby’s accomplishments in over 50 years of America’s automotive history. He was a race car driver and entrepreneur, who had brilliant, innovative design ideas. Even though he passed away in 2012, Shelby’s legacy lives on… and soon, through the 40,000 square-foot Shelby Automotive Museum in Gardena, California, his ...

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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 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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By Rob Sass / Originally Published March 28, 2014 / Hagerty The attrition rate of cars from the mid-disco to late Reagan-era is huge. And while we’d love to see someone somewhere driving any one of the cars on this list, in truth, we can’t remember the last time we saw any of them.  Here ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published February 21, 2014 / Hagerty The classic car world is full of “coulda, shoulda, woulda” stories of people who had the opportunity to buy something when it was affordable only to see it sail out of reach. If you didn’t buy a Shelby Cobra during the Nixon administration for ...

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