Hemmings Muscle Machines

Jonathan Shaw, PresidentMatthew Boice, Senior Vice President of Media EDITORIAL Douglas R. Glad, Head of ContentTerry McGean, Editor-in-Chief, Hemmings Muscle MachinesDan Stoner, Creative DirectorJerry Pitt, Managing EditorEvan Perkins, Director of

I can still remember the phone call from my colleague Richard Lentinello, telling me about the new magazine he and his staff were launching over at Hemmings. Richard and I had met some years prior while we worked together at CSK, a small publishing c

“I am well behind in my HMM reading as I spent several months in Europe and somehow for the first time, missed one of Jim McGowan’s columns (“Restore or Modify,” HMM #255, reprinted from the April 2015 issue). He and I bought our ’65 GTOs on Long Isl

Q: In the November 2024 issue (HMM #255), David Lyle had a problem with a “Hard Starting ’Vette.” I had the same problem with my 1961 Ford Galaxie, which has a 292-cu.in. V-8 with a four-barrel carburetor and electric choke. It always started right u

Q: I have a 1987 Pontiac Firebird with a Borg-Warner T-5 manual five-speed transmission. This car also had a 3.23:1 rear axle ratio with an open differential but I changed it out to one with 3.73:1 gears and a limited-slip. The issue is, now my speed

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Some time in the distant past, I was watching one of those car-building TV shows, and a very interesting point was raised. I filed it as something to remember, which I promptly forgot, until recently checking my “do not forget” file. A car was purcha