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2017 Ford GT First Test: The Price of Priceless

By RK Motors - Jan 21, 2018

The long, low sweep of bodywork absorbs the early morning sun and radiates a warm glow, the candy apple red paint providi...

Horsepower Wars - Who Had the Most at the Detroit Auto Show

By RK Motors - Jan 19, 2018

You can’t go wrong buying a muscle car these days. The Big Three are all boxing with engines that’d make the mountain motors ...

New Illinois museum honors the Chevrolet Corvair

By RK Motors - Jan 17, 2018

  A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum.   Bel...

Summernationals homeless after Raceway Park drops drag racing

By RK Motors - Jan 17, 2018

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. -- The NHRA Summernationals no longer have a home. The owners of Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, ...

Dan Gurney, 1931-2018

By RK Motors - Jan 15, 2018

Dan Gurney (R) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. If Dan Gurney wasn’t the greatest Ameri...

Original Bullitt Mustang found, takes its place alongside 2019 Bullitt

By RK Motors - Jan 14, 2018

  Thought to be lost, it has been with the same family for 40 years.   Few movie cars are as instantly recognizable ...

Genovation GXE Corvette: The 800-horsepower, $750,000 Green Hypercar

By RK Motors - Jan 12, 2018

She's real fine, my 209 (-mph 'Vette) On the occasion of the Genovation GXE Corvette’s official coming-out party at CES 2018...

This Rediscovered 1948 Land Rover Was One Of The First 3 Made

By RK Motors - Jan 11, 2018

JLR Classic will restore the former auto show Land Rover that spent decades in hiding. Long-lost classics, especially if the...

A boy's dream: Experiencing GM's Motorama in person

By RK Motors - Jan 07, 2018

  I couldn’t believe my good luck.   A junior-high friend invited me to join him and his father on a journey into New York...

Do You Know What Cars Will Become Classics? These Guys Do!

By RK Motors - Jan 04, 2018

  Back in the ’60s, no one knew that the cars on the road would be held in such high regard as classics. As hard as it is to...

Leave it to Motion Performance to Pack 454 Inches of Pavement-Pounding Power in a 1974 Chevrolet Vega

By RK Motors - Dec 31, 2017

  “The title sounds like bunk, you say? Well, what would you call a street Vega with a 454-cubic-inch big-block, Aunt Mary? ...

Why I'm Not Worried About The Future Of Collector Cars

By RK Motors - Dec 28, 2017

Even if prices drop through the floor … so what? Consider, for a moment, a doomsday scenario: At the stroke of midnight on J...

1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Build

By Josh Leatherwood - Dec 28, 2017

Time capsules have always fascinated the masses. Whether it’s a need for exploration or just simple romanticism, for many, a ...

1960 Chevrolet Impala Build - Fabrication (Part 2)

By Josh Leatherwood - Dec 27, 2017

In the previous Fabrication write-up, we started building the foundation of our brazen Impala restoration both figuratively a...

Check out this awesome 1942 Dodge Carryall on Jay Leno's Garage

By RK Motors - Dec 24, 2017

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1960 Chevrolet Impala Build - Fabrication (Part 1)

By Josh Leatherwood - Dec 22, 2017

If you’ve been following the RKM Performance Center’s 1960 Impala build, you probably know it’s been well over a year since w...

A Phantom 1955 Imperial Convertible Wins the Triple Crown

By RK Motors - Dec 21, 2017

  Check the production numbers for 1955 Chrysler Imperials. The total, including two-door hardtops, four-door hardtops, ...

4 New Lowriders Park at the Petersen

By RK Motors - Dec 20, 2017

It’s a celebration, low and slow   The new lowrider exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is so popular ...