1955 Jaguar XK140 SE Michelotti coupe. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Though it came clad in an aluminum body crafted by Giovanni Michelotti, the expectations for the unique – but tired – Jaguar X...
Stout Scarab. Photos courtesy Portland Art Museum, except where noted. The advent of streamlining not only enabled car designers to radically experiment with both the style and substance of the autom...
Each spring for 40 years, the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA has held AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it has grown into an event quite unlike any other in the U.S. The event is truly an...
Kingston Custom’s White Phantom BMW R/80. Photos courtesy the Petersen Museum unless otherwise noted. On the heels of the successful Harley vs. Indian motorcycle display, which ended its run on March...
Buick-engined 2011 Diva roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: one of 37 expensive kits produced,, this is the best example of a finished vehicle, priced similar to a un-fi...
Photos courtesy Cort Elgar. Water pumpers. Pan buggies. Tunnel buggies. Sand rails. The names may all sound unfamiliar to outsiders and even to those who originally called their homebuilt rigs “dune ...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Move-in for the 2018 Portland Roadster Show. Photos by author. Editor’s note: Don Homuth had a chance to catch the setup for this year’s Portland Roadster Show, and asked us if we’d like to present a...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. For several years it toured the country claiming a Guinness world record for “world’s most expensive automobile,” and it very well may have been, g...
Delahaye-inspired wood-bodied 1979 Datsun 280ZX nicknamed “The Dolphin” for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I’m an artist who loves cars. The 1930’s French automobiles designed b...
French automaker Delahaye introduced its 135 model in 1935, and – war years excluded – variations remained in production until 1954. Delahaye 135s were frequently rebodied by French coachbuilders, bu...
As this Pro Street Mustang demonstrates, if one blower is good, then three must be better. All photos by Barry Kluczyk. Each year, Cobo Hall plays host to the Detroit Autorama, a show that’s become o...
The story of Richard Bosley of Mentor, Ohio, typically gets doled out in drips and drops in stories about his two hand-built cars, the Mark I and the Interstate. While it’s no biography, the booklet ...
Photography by David LaChance. In this business, there are countless times we are on the receiving end of a conversation that starts with “It’s one of only…” and usually ends in a number likely in th...
You can’t beat the old Sears catalogs as reference material. Photos by the author. One of the neatest references for everyday-material culture of the past is a Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalog. Sea...
The Race of Gentlemen is all about old cars and motorcycles in motion. Images by the Hemmings staff except as noted. The Race of Gentlemen is a dynamic event. Not only is it all about hopped-up cars ...
As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
When we realized we only had one headlight, Conder took it all in stride. This is the sketch on a piece of chipboard that he keeps piles of, deep inside Conder Custom, that finally solved the problem...
A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum. Beloved by its fans, but criticized–perhaps unreasonably–by its detractors, the Chevrole...
Getting there. They say that it takes 90 percent of the time to do 10 percent of the work and vice-versa. “They” say a lot, don’t they? All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Warhol claime...
One of the four mysterious photos Joe Gotelli – grandson of Ted “The Goat” Gotelli – dug out of a filing cabinet for me. While I had to find out what cosmic forces brought these elements together in ...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. One of Henry Ford’s odder inventions—and one that certainly challenges the notion he only ever wanted to build Model Ts into perpetuity—will get its moment in the spot...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Know what one of the best things about a hot rod is? The motor, son. “Of course,” right? But the decisions that are made around the engine for a hot ...
From the seller’s description: 1972 HY dual fuel Camper . This has got to be the ultimate H van! Stretched and raised. I purchased the vehicle with the intention of stripping out the camper shell and...