Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...
Photos courtesy Kory Anderson. Nobody has seen one in close to a century, and they’d know it if they had: With eight-foot-tall drive wheels, a boiler a full-grown man could walk under, and the capaci...
Electrified 1965 Ford Mustan g for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: My Dad’s Electric Dream My Dad had an idea, completed in July 1995, to build a “Classic Electric Car”. He found...
Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...
Classic Mini Electric concept, which debuted at the 2018 New York International Auto Show. Photos courtesy MINI. Battery electric cars don’t typically generate much interest among enthusiasts, so aut...
Think Tesla was the first to build a heavy-duty electric truck? The Commercial Truck Company beat them by over a century. From the seller’s description: 1912 Commercial Truck Company Model A 10 Stand...
Conduct your own night of fire with this J34 turbojet-powered 1984 Chevrolet Corvette funny car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This incredible Jet Turbine powered Funny Car ...
If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...
Electric-powered fiberglass-bodied 1927 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is powered by a 90hp 120 volt electric motor. It uses 10 deep cycle 12 volt batt...
Nissan’s doing something interesting in Australia. Rather than running their vintage race cars past grandstands full of spectators, they’re packing the spectators onto buses and running both the buse...
Jaguar’s E-type Zero. Photos by Ronan Glon, unless otherwise noted. Beginning in 2040, Britain is poised to ban the sale of all new gasoline- and diesel-powered automobiles and vans. While the rules ...
VW I.D. Buzz concept. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America. “Iconic” is an overused adjective, but in the case of the Volkswagen microbus, officially the “Type 2 Transporter,” it’s a fitting one. Th...
Not the 1867 racer. Image courtesy Grace’s Guide. Lore holds that the first automobile race took place after the second automobile was built. The historical record, however, shows that nearly a centu...
A circa-1927 BMW R42. Photo by Dawn Deppi, Eye of the Beholder Inc. Each August, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, plays host to a temporary exhibit focusing on ...
Photos courtesy Bollinger Motors. In July, New York State-based Bollinger Motors revealed an all-electric sport utility vehicle that promises serious off-roading capabilities. At first glance, the Bo...
San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...
389-cu.in. Tri-Power V-8 beneath the hood of a 1964 Pontiac GTO. Photo by author. On July 5, automaker Volvo Cars announced that every vehicle it launches after 2019 will be powered — in part or whol...
Photo by Chris Dobbins. We all have a favorite automotive tall tale or conspiracy theory we cling to over the years, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong and need debunked. Though we didn’t hear it...
1908 Ford Model T. Photo courtesy Ford Media. Ask old-timers what they’ve run their Model T on beside gasoline, and the responses will start to sound like the list of potential fuels for the Chrysler...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
Ford Motor Company is poised to launch a new division to build fully electric vehicles, Hemmings Motor News News has learned. The new division will be called e-Dsel, putting a high-tech spin on a wid...
Pretty much every event in the 20th century can be linked to an automobile of some sort. Take, for instance, the 1930 Studebaker recently displayed at a car show in India: It carries its “killer” rep...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
After that road trip video featuring the Beast of Turin a couple weeks ago, Goodwood couldn’t just leave us hanging as to the fate of the Beast after it reached the event, thus a followup this week o...
Given that none of the Diamond T Doodlebugs built for Texaco are known to have survived (and the plans to drop a quad-turbo Detroit diesel in it), we’re going to presume that the project sketches tha...