1982 Chevrolet Cavalier Cadillac Cimarron. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures.com. Even to this day, some car shows across the country refuse admission to any vehicle built after 1972, as if every carmak...
Photos via Florian Kalff. It’s been less than a year since the oldest known Volkswagen Samba emerged from its decades-long resting place, but the enthusiast who took on its restoration project says h...
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...
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...
Several years ago, I drove up to a small town in the Adirondacks of upstate New York in the middle of January and pulled a 1969 Triumph Spitfire out of the frozen front yard of this guy’s house. Most...
The legendary Chevy 409 met its match one summer night in ’62. Photo via Hemmings Archive. The baby-blue 1940 Ford convertible with top down, engine straining, was doing 90 miles per hour. Wearing no...
One for resto, one for parts pair of 1987 Subaru GLs for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A nearly matched pair of 1987 Subaru GL Wagons. Both have a 1.8 liter , 4 cylinder engine...
What is it that prompts automotive attraction? Why do some of us favor small cars over large cars, or station wagons over coupes, or four-doors over two? Is it genetics? Is it our experience early in...
This just sums up everything good about the Turlock Swap Meet: @clydeathan doing the boxer’s championship belt hoist with his 2nd-gen Firebird nose–a great score and evidence of a day well-spent. Pho...
1917 Fairbanks Morse Z 1½ horsepower. Photos by author. Editor’s Note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings Daily reader Matt Cuddy. Being stuck in a wheelchair is no fun, but I still get my kicks ma...
The dawn of a new year generally brings with it a sense of hope and optimism, particularly when one is past the age where January 1 is spent nursing a hangover. With the winter solstice behind us, th...
Of the ways to build an all-wheel-drive mid-engine street machine, the folks behind this GTO took a rather unusual approach with a custom transmission and transfer case ahead of the engine. Engine Sw...
Images via Google Street View. A curmudgeon’s repair shop. A block-wide maintenance garage for intercity buses that became an FBI crime lab. A small neighborhood gas station. A radiator man’s small c...
Project-status 1966 Sunbeam Imp Mk II for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: this is a MkII and sports Mk2 badges on each door and a Pentastar badge on the passenger side too. These...
Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...
Assuming they have sufficient funds, anyone can buy a car. Cash is paid out in exchange for keys and a title, and for many, such a transaction is satisfying enough. For others, however, a car isn’t t...
Photos courtesy R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. Storage, Mark Memmel said, wasn’t kind to his Oldsmobile Cutlass. Rust ate up about half of the car while it sat, so he ultimately decided to restore ...
Flxible-built 1948 Buick Roadmaster funeral car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Buick-Flxible premier funeral car with three way turntable. Only 29 made, as far as we can fin...
When it comes to cars, we all have our preferences and peculiarities. Some like big cars with plush suspensions, while others prefer small ones with nimble handling and/or fuel-efficient engines. Sti...
When Carroll Shelby was trying to come up with a name for his first high-performance Mustang, legend has it that he asked one of his staff to judge the distance from where they stood to the shop. “Ab...
Photos courtesy Dwight Foster. The Smithsonian Museum wouldn’t take it: “It’d be like bringing the bubonic plague in there.” Other museums agreed to display it, but only temporarily. Even the city of...
Brochure image from the editor’s collection. It was the early summer of 1970 and I had a driver’s license and a couple of hundred dollars to spend on a set of wheels. This two hundred dollars was ear...
Andrew Rosen’s 1932 Auburn Speedster. Images by Hemmings Staff and courtesy Richard Skeuse It’s mid-June already and that means that the New Jersey rendition of The Race of Gentlemen has come and gon...
It’s a sunny weekend in June, whattaya gonna do – sit inside and read? Okay, if you’ve got nothing going on in the garage, check out the roadside finds Feral Cars came across in the Highland Park are...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...