Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, dies | Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, died earlier this month at the age of 89. If you're not a hardcore drag racing fan (or if you weren't paying close attention to the story on Mickey and Danny Thompson's Challenger II this week), you may not have heard of the man. You probably […] | Lees verder | Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Mercury Cougar XR7 | From the seller's description: I am selling this 1973 Mercury Cougar XR7 car for my parents. They are the second owner, with the first owner being my grandmother, so this car has been in the family all its life. This car has a 351 V-8, automatic transmission, air conditioning, do not see any cracks in […] | Lees verder | Fact Check: Detroit wasn't the first city to pave its roads in concrete | Earlier this year, a handful of Michigan groups got together to restore and re-dedicate a historical marker along Woodward Avenue in Detroit that, no doubt, left many observers under the impression that the Michigan city pioneered the use of concrete in paved roads. However, according to set-in-concrete facts (*groan*), Detroit was more than a decade […] | Lees verder | Hemmings Find of the Day: 1960 Chrysler New Yorker | Nine-passenger four-door hardtop 1960 Chrysler New Yorker station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: I purchased the car in 2005, and then had a nut and bolt restoration done which completed in 2015. The car has won a Junior and a Senior award at Hershey. It is breathtaking inside and out. Loaded […] | Lees verder | |