New York and 10 Other States Get Tough on Emissions
Though it shouldn’t have any direct effect on collector cars, a new round of stricter auto emissions requirements, expected to sweep the Northeast, could raise the price of your next new daily driver...
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Got a Hemi?
In this case, absolutely. We’ve been watching police agencies (particularly in New Jersey) increasingly snap up the Dodge Durango for patrol duty, usually with the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, replacing the...
View ArticleRight to Repair lives in New Jersey
Various state and federal versions of the Right to Repair law have been batted around since 2004, with no clear winner in sight. The latest shot has been fired in New Jersey, where the Assembly...
View ArticleLight of day
State lawmakers in New Jersey have taken their first step toward creating a museum for fire apparatus. Members of the New Jersey State Assembly introduced a bill that would appropriate $2 million to...
View ArticleMuscle Cars at New Jersey auction
What better place to spend a weekend than at the New Jersey shore during late September? During the weekend of September 20 through September 23, a huge collector-car auction and car show will be held...
View ArticleWayback edition 1910: I want to drive in New Jersey!
Imagine for a moment it’s 1910 and, as you all undoubtedly know, only New Jersey residents may use New Jersey roads. That will change if the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club gets its way. “The New...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 10-car fortress of solitude
Can it be a Fortress of Solitude if it doesn’t have giant crystal formations and a statue of Jor-El? Well, that’s how the seller of this 10-car garage with country home currently for sale on...
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A real, live, short track relic
There are barn finds, and then there’s this, which really did come out of a barn. The barn was hidden away in a real shot-and-a-beer town. And it went under the rafters really rocked, because in that...
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Montclair, New Jersey, 1970s
Inspired in part by this morning’s Electra 225 Hemmings Find of the Day, let’s travel to the northwest suburbs of Newark, New Jersey, where this street scene – which we found on Duke University...
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Motor madness in central Jersey
Photo courtesy Flemington Speedway Historical Society. It wasn’t purely a show for racing cars, although they did show up in some numbers and last year’s inaugural Drive-In Motor Madness Show,...
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New York City, 1941, part 2
About the same time Charles Cushman took the shot of South Street in New York City that we saw yesterday, Marion Post Wolcott was documenting the flight of New Yorkers out of the city and toward the...
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Toys for boys
Bertoia Auctions of Vineland, New Jersey, will be selling off toy collector Bob Smith’s collection November 7, 8 and 9. photo courtesy Bertoia Auctions Toy trucks, the prizes that launched many of us...
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Face of the Race: A last look at The Race of Gentlemen
Smiles like these are what it’s all about. Ray Evernham, championship crew chief and former NASCAR team owner, rides along with Oilers Car Club member Travis “Tuki” Hess at the third-annual Race of...
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New Jersey, we presume, 1970
As found and posted to Flickr by Jeffs4653, this photo of a bunch of cars parked in a field only came with a date of August 1970, no specific location. Scanning the license plates, we see a bunch of...
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New Jersey, 1940s
Going back through some old bookmarks, I see we never used these three photos from the Duke University Libraries for our carspotting series. At least two of them we can positively identify the...
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New Jersey, 1962
Date: circa 1962 Location: somewhere in New Jersey Source: Pleasant Family Shopping What do you see here?
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New Jersey, 1970s
Date: circa 1973 to 1977 Location: New Jersey Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
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