Date: circa 1949 Location: 324 Washington Street, West Warwick, Rhode Island Source: Merrill Moone, who writes: The building was new in 1947 and was a Studebaker dealership until he switched to Dodge...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Did the late 1970s represent the peak of “personal luxury” coupe ownership in America? It’s true that, 40 years...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor No, there’s nothing racy about the above photo, just a wholesome young lady and her car… Okay, so you don’t hav...
Photos courtesy Leake Auction Companies. Once every 10 years or so following Chevrolet’s introduction of the El Camino, somebody connected to the Pontiac division decided that it too needed a busines...
Most art cars depend on plastic toys glued to their exterior surfaces to make a statement. Bruce Tomb’s Maria del Camino goes a little deeper, using a 1959 El Camino riddled with holes, mounted to ta...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As in Europe, vehicles in postwar England were typically small and efficient, sized for that country’s busy city streets and narrow rura...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/ Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras,...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor The smaller Swedish automaker was in a pretty good place in 1985, poised to sell a then-record 39,068 units in the ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News In an odd bit of marketing, Jaguar Cars North America introduced the XJ-S in 1976 as the “ S-type,” which was an about-face from the way...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Gregory S. Hahn Porsche’s American lineup looked largely the same for 1987 as it did in previous years, since the all-new, ...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Cadillac embraced the future in 1992 when it debuted the Northstar V-8. This all-aluminum engine was as sophisticated as any offered by a premium...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Gregory S. Hahn While they’re nearly Toyota-ubiquitous today, Mercedes-Benz cars were still a rare and special sight on Ame...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author. It’s impossible to understate the importance of the compact, front wheel-drive K cars to the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1980s, as the aut...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As we posited in “ Earthbound Spaceship,” our Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car retrospective of the Citroen DS, this front wheel-drive Frenc...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
Date: spring 1964 Location: Luigi Chinetti Motors, 780 Eleventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York City Source: Dave Friedman via The Henry Ford on Flickr What do you see here? Editor’s Note: For the Ferrar...
Uptown Packard as it appeared in 2014. Image courtesy Google Maps. One of the last Albert Kahn buildings – and perhaps the last vestige of Packard automobiles – left standing in New York City remains...
Photography by author. The moment I got my license, the after-sundown car lot crawl became a tradition. When the dealership closed, the outside lights remained on, but the salespeople and other custo...
Photos courtesy Joe Germann. A 289, a nitro 427, and a SOHC: Joe Germann had a few different iterations of the Wild Child – one of Canada’s most famous drag racing cars and one of its first altered-w...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Ooh, that body lean is making us a bit queasy… 1974 represented the last model year for Volvo’s 140 series, which dated back to the August 1966 i...