America Was Given A Car From The Future. Then Chrysler Destroyed Almost Every One
In the early 1960s, Chrysler built a car that sounded like a jet, could run on fuels ranging from diesel to kerosene, and looked as though it…
More Than 200 Classic Cars Sat Hidden In A Barn. The Story Behind Them Was Stranger Than The Cars
For years, the Internet has loved stories about forgotten fortunes—especially photographs of enormous collections of classic cars supposedly discovered in abandoned barns. Many of those stories turned…
He Built A Lamborghini In His Basement For 17 Years. Then It Wouldn’t Fit Through The Door
In 1990, Ken Imhoff decided that owning a Lamborghini Countach was not something he had to buy. He could build one himself. For the next 17 years,…
They Buried A Brand-New Car For 50 Years. Then Nobody Wanted The Car They Found
In 1957, Tulsa, Oklahoma, buried a brand-new Plymouth Belvedere beneath the courthouse lawn and promised to open it exactly 50 years later. The gold-and-white coupe had only…
The Airbag Was Supposed to Save Your Life. It Could Explode Instead
An airbag is supposed to be one of the safest things inside a car. In a serious crash, it is meant to inflate in milliseconds and create…
This 1958 Car Looked Like a Spaceship—and It Actually Ran
In 1958, General Motors built a car that looked less like a family automobile and more like something from a science-fiction movie. The Firebird III had a…
The Sports Car Built With Aluminum, a BMW Engine—and Wood
A modern sports car with an aluminum chassis, advanced electronics and a BMW turbocharged engine sounds completely ordinary. Then you look beneath the body and discover something…
Police Wanted O.J. Simpson. Then He Disappeared in a White Ford Bronco
O.J. Simpson had once been one of the fastest men in America. In June 1994, police were hunting him as a suspect in the killings of his…
This Car Was Only 84 Centimeters Tall. And It Actually Worked
It was only 84 centimeters tall—so low that getting inside required lifting the windshield. Yet this wasn’t a model built simply to sit under an auto-show spotlight….
795 HP, No Roof: How Ford Made This Mustang Work
Ford just took a nearly 800-hp Mustang and cut the roof off. That sounds like a terrible idea for a car built around serious performance—but the engineering…