Divers in Lake Huron have recently discovered the wreckage of a ship named the Manasoo. While neat in an of itself, the wreckage revealed a perfectly preserved piece of history: a 1927 Chevrolet Coupe. The Manasoo sank in Georgian Bay during September 1928. A storm wracked the ship, which pointed out a pretty damning problem: there was something wrong with the stern, and it was filling up with water in the middle of the night. At that point, they were, for all intents and purposes, screwed. Only five folks survived the sinking,…

A 1979 Pontiac Trans Am driven by Steve McQueen in his last movie has been found in a barn in rural Illinois. The car was driven by McQueen in The Hunter from 1980, which follows the glamorized storyline of real-life professional bounty hunter Ralph “Papa” Thorson. The car doesn’t play a huge role in the movie, but it was still driven by Steve. Six Trans Ams were used for the film, and two were wrecked during production as part of a scene where the car gets blown up. According to Hemmings Motor News,…

Old rental cars often make the least appealing used vehicles, but there’s one very big exception to that rule: The 1966 Shelby GT350H. The “Rent-a-Racer” was a run of special edition cars built for Hertz by Carrol Shelby that were based on his high-performance Shelby GT350 version of the Ford Mustang. Along with two prototypes, only 999 were made, and the vast majority of them were finished in Hertz’s signature black and gold color scheme, but a few were painted other colors. Some were literally driven by renters from the agency…

If you’re into obscure cars made with material other than metal, you’re going to love this collection of fiberglass kit cars nestled in the wooded outskirts of Tampa, Florida. It’s called Fiberglass Farms, and it’s run by Jeff Hacker, an old friend of Tom Cotter, the host of Hagerty’s Barn Find Hunter series. Hacker gives Cotter a tour of his facility, showing off ultra-rare kit cars and half-finished projects that have long since been abandoned by their original owners. Some are cool, nicely styled cars that draw from other designs from their eras,…