Motorious

A gleaming red 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe dressed in full SS regalia is currently drawing bids on Hagerty Marketplace, where the high bid has already reached $22,000 with eight bids...

Every so often a giveaway car rolls out that makes you stop scrolling, and this one qualifies. Danny Koker and the crew at Count's Kustoms turned a 1968 Chevrolet Nova into a Brandywine-and-White-Diamond restomod on Counting Cars (Season 7, Episode 12), and now it can end up in your garage. The Nova Dream Giveaway is handing over the keys — plus $16,000 toward the fe...

Surplus Humvees are everywhere, but the good ones are not. Most of what turns up at government auction is an early M998 with a naturally aspirated 6.2, drum-braked axles and a frame design that dates to the Reagan administration. This one is a different animal entirely: a slantback AM General M1151A1 built to fifth-generation REV specification, now bidding on...

Every collector car listing is a sales document. That does not make it dishonest — the best ones are meticulous, and the people writing them often know the car better than anyone alive. But the information is still arranged to flatter, and learning to read a listing is mostly a matter of knowing which parts are load-bearing and which parts are decoration.

The stakes are...

A collector car and a daily driver represent two completely different risks, but plenty of owners only find out how differently they are treated after something has already gone wrong. The gap between a standard auto policy and a specialty collector policy is not a technicality. In a total loss, it gets measured in tens of thousands of dollars.

Here is what actually sep...