Cars with celebrity provenance usually move on the market with a consistent paper trace and some added value. This one didn’t, at least not until recently, when its most recent owner picked it up and ...

Once in a Blue (Oval) Moon, a magic spell falls over the automotive world and changes the car universe forever and for good. Such mystic charmed the pants off America 67 years ago with the throning of ...

It's been 25 years since Sonny Francisco—one of Petersen's first full-time employees and the wife of Don Francisco, HOT ROD's first technical editor—removed the protective cardboard shields from the ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Kelly Lynn doesn’t blare the Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun” from the stereo when she drives her 1957 Thunderbird. But it would be understandable if she did. “It’s very fun to drive,” she says. Lynn, 52, ...

Want to ride like Marilyn? Screen goddess Marilyn Monroe’s beloved 1956 raven black Ford Thunderbird is up for auction. But it will set you back between $300,000 and $500,000. The tragic actress — who ...

Every '55-'57 Thunderbird is a classic, but the 208 factory-supercharged "F-code" '57s are easily the most desirable-and valuable-of the flock. Ford installed a McCulloch centrifugal supercharger atop ...

I can't recall who said fire in the hearth fades with time, but it certainly wasn't Rosemary and Daryl Nichols. They've been in love for 32 years and have four grown children, 12 grandchildren, and ...

In 1957, Ford gave its cars a new look. Completely restyled, the ’57 Fords bore only a slight resemblance to earlier models. Changes to the Thunderbird represented the first significant restyling ...

The ’57 owned by Trevor Dumville might fit right into the T-Bird and pretty girl tradition. There’s a chance, and some evidence, that Dumville’s Baby Bird was once owned by Marilyn Monroe. According ...