Jim Koscs

My feature for the National Corvette Museum’s quarterly “America’s Sports Car” magazine explores the history of its transitions from one generation to the next through the lens of the Corvette Hall-of-Famers who shaped those transitions.

Against improbable odds, this Corvette owner reunited his L88 Corvette with its original engine—after 54 years.

Jeff Frahm's first foray into Ford performance was his 1985.5 SVO Mustang. The blue ovals in his garage have only multiplied since then.

Welcome to Original Owner, a series showcasing—you guessed it—people who bought a classic car new and still own it. The cars don’t need to be factory-original, just still in the hands of the first owner and still getting driven. —Ed.…

A few years ago, Hagerty columnist Jay Leno reconstructed a 1931 Duesenberg Model J LaGrande Coupe, one of six built in the style. The original body had been removed and scrapped in the 1940s by a Ford-Lincoln dealer in Indianapolis, which replaced…

Car enthusiasts are accustomed to aspirational names on vehicles: “Le Mans” on workaday Pontiacs; “Cougar” on mild-not-wild Mercury station wagons, and “Falcon” on a Ford economy car that could not fly—these are but a few examples. Cashing in on a…

Brad Zeidler is cheerfully realistic when it comes to why he can easily find good used parts for his 1981 Oldsmobile, and cheaply on eBay, no less. “What kind of idiot would restore one of these cars?” he jokes. Zeidler’s Oldsmobile Omega is one of…

Lamborghini’s original rock star If you contributed to the 503 million minutes streamed across the three episodes of The Beatles “Get Back” film on Disney last November, you likely caught a glimpse of Sir Paul McCartney’s 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2.…

For a heart-stopping moment in 1990, Martin Peters nearly became the headline of a grisly story in which the Eastern and Western German automotive worlds collided—quite literally—on the Autobahn. Peters, then head writer for MotorWeek, was in Germany…

Rare Factory Rally Car Up For Auction In its early years, even as it was starting to become a road racing winner, the Porsche 911 was a rally star. It established the model’s extraordinary competition versatility. Special factory-prepped 911 models…

In his classic rock anthem Born to Run, New Jersey’s favorite son Bruce Springsteen romanticizes street racing in Asbury Park, New Jersey, with the lyric, “Sprung from cages out on Highway 9, chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the…

Honda’s revolutionary 1960s ad campaign, “You meet the nicest people on a Honda,” gets a lot of credit for helping soften motorcycling’s unsavory image and grow ridership in America. By the early 1970s, many of those nice people were having some…

Porsche’s Last Dual-Purpose Car The year 1964 was pivotal for Porsche. The company introduced the 911as a successor to the long-running 356 series, and for competition, Porsche fielded a more focused track machine with an eye on FIA GT racing, the…

One word might best sum up the arrival of the 2020 Corvette, the first mid-engine model in the Chevy sports car’s nearly 70-year history: finally! Mid-engine Corvettes had been teased as engineering cars, prototypes and concepts for more than 50 of…

If spy photos and rumors are correct, a new Mach 1 will be joining the Mustang line for 2021, replacing the Bullitt and slotted below the Shelbys. The Mustang line, which will include the electric Mach E late this year, hasn’t had this many hotrods…

More than 30 historic Team Penske race cars were gathered at the 25th annual Amelia Island Concours d’ Elegance earlier this month to celebrate the life and career of racer and entrepreneur Roger Penske, the event’s honoree. Team Penske, founded in…

Tom Peters was 17 when the 1970 Camaro began appearing on the streets early that year, and what he saw shocked him. With its taut contours and fastback coupe profile, it looked nothing like the first-generation Camaro, which as a teenager he enjoyed…

Cadillac introduced its CT6 sedan with the “Dare Greatly” marketing campaign during the 2015 Oscars television broadcast, and while that car’s future has been somewhat clouded by uncertainty, the campaign continues with such messages as “Never stop…

For many, the nostalgic twinge that drives us to seek things from our youth fires up a craving for 1980s Japanese motorcycles. And why not? The MTV decade ushered in a staggering array of exceptionally versatile standards, canyon-carving superbikes,…

Rushing up in the rearview mirror, a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat looks like it’s fixing to inhale your license plate through its wide-mouth hood scoop. Inspired by jet aircraft and race cars, Detroit has been slapping hood scoops…