One of our favorite features of the Muscle Machines weekly is this historic photo thing we’ve been doing for awhile now. And, by the number of responses, we think you all agree! Couldn’t be happier a...
Photography by author. Souvenirs come in all forms, but none are more useable than the little shot glass. For a small glass container that holds only 1.5 ounces of your favorite liquid, shot glasses ...
How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...
Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...
Dustin Shuler’s “Spindle.” Photo by Payton Chung. The act of using automobiles in art installations is fundamentally transformative. No longer are the automobiles used in art installations just more ...
1965 Chevrolet Corvette 396 Turbo-Jet V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. For a brief moment, the 425-horsepower Mark IV 396-cu.in. V-8 was top dog of available Corvette engines, producing higher o...
Photography by author. The National Impala Association Convention held in Dayton, Ohio, this past summer offered an impressive display of high-quality feature opportunities for Hemmings Muscle Machin...
Photo courtesy Michael Paul Smith. Most modelers go about their work in private, fussy about the minutiae of their work but hardly cognizant of where the work fits into broader questions of purpose a...
The Jason Castriota-designed Chevrolet Corvette Mantide. Photos courtesy Aste Bolaffi. Nuccio Bertone received his dying wish: The company that carried his family name survived, at least in part, to ...
Streamlined trains and divided highways, but oddly no airplanes, represented state-of-the-art transportation in 1941. If you’ve seen those blue “Eisenhower Interstate System” signs with the General-t...
Ron Hickman poses with the Lotus Elan. Photos courtesy National Motor Museum Trust. Though he retired in 1982, Ron Hickman never really stopped designing things. Over a three-decade career, his achie...
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when drag racing was really, really cool. Drivers were gladiators, teams were small bands of nomads, motel parking lots were all-night parties, and the ...
In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...
Sneak peek at the Cotati Speed Shop ’68 Camaro roadracer/roadrager. Shot by Eric Haines for Hemmings Muscle Machines. If you’re reading this, we’re gonna go ahead and assume you’re familiar with the ...
Images courtesy Artcurial. While Dustin Shuler’s “Spindle” literally skewered automobiles for the sake of art, Arman’s “Long Term Parking” took a more figurative approach to critiquing automobiles as...
Update to last week’s links to the story of the Wild Cherry van: Chris Carter, the Illinois man who restored the van, has been arrested on felony auto-theft charges and will be extradited to Californ...
If you’re reading this and have been poking around YouTube for the last, say, six years or so, there’s a good chance you may have stumbled across Headquake and his amazeballs radio-control scale repr...
An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
Some of the video that Tom Roche and Chris Osburn of Roche Photo Collective captured of our relaunch issue feature car! In our work producing Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine, we tend to meet some i...
Jim Benjaminson’s grandfather, Andrew Widme, purchased his first car in July of 1912 – a used 1910 Mitchell built in Racine, Wisconsin. Grandpa Widme paid $700 for the car (which sold new for around ...
“Motoring,” a 2009 charcoal and pencil drawing by Laurie Lipton. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. Since the revamped Petersen Automotive Museum reopened in December 2015, the Los Angeles, California,...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
I took this photo of my black ’57 at the Classic Thunderbird Club International regional meet at Seven Springs around 1970 or so when we drove the Bird from New Rochelle to western Pennsylvania. Bill...