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The Year You Were Born
A yearly issue for every model year. The cars that sold, and the one we would buy as a first classic.
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The Collectibles Worth Watching
The 2026 middle market is soft while enthusiasm moves generationally: Japanese classics, vintage trucks, analog performance, and preserved originals. What the Hagerty data suggests comes next, and th…
July 30, 2026
The Chronicle · Vol. 1 · Heritage Edition
In this issue
3 standing features
The Journal
16 pieces
The Long Read · July 30, 2026
What Makes a Great Classic
Some classics stay with one keeper for 30 years and others get flipped in 8 months, and the difference is visible before purchase: parts supply, mechanical legibility, driving character, significance, community, and the…
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The Long Read · July 30, 2026
The Project Car Field Guide
Budgets double, timelines stretch to years, and every build hits the month where progress stops. A field guide to choos…
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The Long Read · July 30, 2026
The Price of Paint
A respray runs from $395 to past $100,000, and the paint is the cheap part. On the price ladder, the prep labour that d…
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The Long Read · July 29, 2026
Advice for first-time classic car buyers
The first classic decides whether the hobby keeps you. On classifications, the soft 2026 market, the driver-or-project…
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The Long Read · July 26, 2026
You Bought It at the Third Photograph
A pre-purchase inspection defends you against the rust, the missing paperwork, and mostly against your own enthusiasm.…
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The Long Read · July 17, 2026
The Surveillance Disclosure and Consent Act
A model bill for the four signs, offered to any council, any statehouse, and any citizen willing to carry it up the ste…
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The Long Read · July 10, 2026
The Cameras Came Quietly
Minnesota bolted itself to a national surveillance network one consent agenda at a time, and the record those cameras k…
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Features · June 30, 2026
Planning Your Project from the Desk
How AUTODYSSEY helps you plan, budget, and manage your restoration project from your office desk to the workshop floor…
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Events · June 22, 2026
Back to the 50's Weekend
The Minnesota Street Rod Association fills the State Fairgrounds in St. Paul with more than ten thousand pre-1964 cars…
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Advocacy · June 21, 2026
Sorry, It's a Tuesday
Minnesota wants a say in which days you're allowed to drive the car you already own. Every keeper in every state should…
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Opinion · June 17, 2026
Whose Car Is It Anyway?
You bought the car. So why does it feel like you're only borrowing it? On connected cars, right to repair, and why this…
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The Long Read · June 15, 2026
The Hundred-Thousand-Dollar Shortlist
Ten sporting cars worth keeping — a buyer's guide for the hundred-thousand-dollar bracket, written in long-read format…
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Heritage · June 10, 2026
The Year You Were Born
A yearly issue for every model year. The cars that sold, and the one we would buy as a first classic.
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Heritage · May 18, 2026
The honest garage and why transparency is the new provenance
A car's value lives in the gap between what the seller says and what actually happened. We are building the Vault to cl…
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Heritage · May 11, 2026
A morning at the Reno museum
Twenty portraits from the National Automobile Museum — light, leather, brass, and the car that drove around the world.
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