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...
Spotting this Rambler-like soft top on the Fiat Cabrio sent the writer’s imagination into a fever dream of then-and-now comparisons. The New York International Auto Show has ancient roots. It is one ...
1991 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1LE; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots....
1970 Clymer-Muench Mammoth. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Motorcycle historians often cite Honda as building “the first superbike,” yet an obscure model from a largely unknown German brand – with ties to ...
Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
1968 Honda CB750 Four prototype. Photos courtesy H&H. Introduced in 1969, Honda’s CB750 Four motorcycle brought a just-right blend of performance, convenience, and affordability to the masses. Belove...
Roy Fjastad. Image via Facebook. From the drag strip, to the salt flats, to the street, there was very little in hot rodding that Roy Fjastad didn’t touch in the course of his career. Fjastad, who di...
John Lennon’s 1969 Honda Z50A. Photos courtesy H and H Auctions. Among the dozens of vintage trailbikes and classic motorcycles being offered at the March 3 H and H Motorcycle Auction on the premises...
Images courtesy of FCA Heritage. It was at Paris’ world-famous classic-car show, the 43rd edition of Rétromobile, that FCA Heritage announced its exciting new program to sell a select number of resto...
Photography by Richard Lentinello, and courtesy of the Morgan Motor Company. 2018 marks the half-century mark for British automaker Morgan’s traditionally most-powerful model, the eight-cylinder Plus...
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...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor “The shape of things to come.” Indeed, the styling of Triumph’s final sports car would remain timely more than ...
An Airstream Clipper and a Lincoln Zephyr in a 1930s-era photo. Photography from the estate of Helen Byam Schwamborn, courtesy Dale Schwamborn. Recently in writing a profile of Airstream founder Wall...
2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Images courtesy Chevrolet, unless otherwise noted. Millions of Americans can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001. We should al...
Old favorites from movies and TV shows with an antique twist feature in this year’s Auto Art Advent. Images courtesy Stefan Marjoram Regular readers of the Hemmings Daily will no doubt be familiar wi...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Jeep aficionados are salivating at the prospect of the upcoming Wrangler-based Scrambler pickup truck, rumore...
Santa brought the writer a 1923 Ford touring car body, which has been dubbed “Tilly,” thanks to the original plan to use a pair of Tillotson down-draft carburetors on the engine. The Tillotsons are n...
The era of turbocharged production motorcycles from Japan was short and not particularly sweet. But the novelty of turbo bikes today, combined with their low-production numbers, makes them fun and un...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...
1974 Volkswagen Thing Acapulco Edition; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicu...
Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...
1967 Dodge Hemi Coronet R/T; image by the author. When covering any auction for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb — we do our best to adhere to — is to review a few extra vehicular lots....
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...