Photos by Doug Miller. The Volkswagen Beetle, as we all know by now, sent shockwaves through the U.S. auto industry. Sure, imports had come and gone in the past, but they were usually considered outl...
Photos courtesy Renault, except where noted. Unsurprisingly, the image many news outlets chose to illustrate their stories on the death of Lee Iacocca earlier this month showed him at the introductio...
Matt Anderson at The Henry Ford, which has a Star Trek exhibit running from this weekend through September, took a look at the various classic cars that appeared through the original series’ run. Who...
Photos courtesy FCA Media, except where noted. Richard Sias should, by many of his contemporaries’ accounts, be as widely hailed an automotive designer today as any of those contemporaries themselves...
Tucker Carioca rendering by Thom Taylor, courtesy Rob Ida Concepts. Preston Tucker viewed failure as a necessary milestone on the road to success. A year after a jury found him not guilty of charges ...
Some days we all need a little break from reality. So forget your bills, forget your job, forget yourself, and make that day today, because it’s time to drag the waters of my Photochops bookmarks fol...
If you saw our latest issue of Muscle Machine s, you’ll notice that the car on the cover is what the kids call a “WIP:” Work In Progress. And the great thing about a WIP is that, sooner or later, it’...
Sneak peek at the Cotati Speed Shop ’68 Camaro roadracer/roadrager. Shot by Eric Haines for Hemmings Muscle Machines. If you’re reading this, we’re gonna go ahead and assume you’re familiar with the ...
Aaron Kahan’s 1927 Ford Model T coupe is anything but bad news. Footage: @benkahan Since we’re celebrating one of the greatest annual drag racing events this week – the California Hot Rod Reunion – w...
Ford Media image. In its own backyard reside thousands of artists, both current and retired, dedicated to the form of the automobile. It has long had support from many American automobile executives ...
Our recent story on the dubious legend of how Germany got its silver auto racing color got us looking for original source materials to see if we could establish timelines for not just Germany’s natio...
Hemmings archive photo. Senior designer Frank Hershey had been working on the rear fender design idea that had first come to him before the war, when Harley Earl led the field trip to Selfridge air b...
Photochop by Robert Sanderson. What exactly do Detroit’s automakers need to do to regain their big behemoth-sized dominance in the auto industry? Not tariffs, according to BARRY, who commented on thi...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. And he called it… the Cougar. Okay, so Gale Halderman might have swung and missed on the name of Ford’s sporty compact four-seater, but the design he sketched for what wou...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
We get it. A Miller-Meteor-bodied Cadillac ambulance/hearse has all sorts of intrinsic flare, fit into the mid-1980s fetishization of the Fifties, and in the long run made a great choice for the vehi...
Images courtesy Slovak Design Center. The field had narrowed down from hundreds of sketches to 20 scale models to four full-size mockups. None of the four motivated Tatra’s design staff to continue w...
It took a one-ton truck to replace Murray County Rescue’s Hurst Rescue System 1 Gremlin, one of only a handful that George Hurst built to showcase his Jaws of Life and other assorted rescue equipment...
Images courtesy Mel Francis. “Something happened that wouldn’t normally have happened,” Mel Francis said of the wedge-shaped supercars of the late Sixties and early Seventies, those low-slung mid-eng...
I’m free, for the moment. So before they catch me and give me more happy pills, here comes weirdness. Above: Phil’s eight-legged Hudson. One could say it’s a Step-Step-Step-Step Down Hudson. Also, do...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
All materials courtesy General Motors. Editor’s Note Thanks to Harold Kie for sending along the raw materials for this week’s Hemmings In-Depth: An entire advance press kit for the 1984 Pontiac Fiero...
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...
Images courtesy Vanderbilt Cup Races. A “mecca of motordom” is how one pundit put it. Nearly 900 acres of now prime Long Island real estate dedicated to racing automobiles at a time before many peopl...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. The stars all appeared to align for Duesenberg’s return in the mid-Sixties: a Duesenberg family member at the helm, an Exner-designed and Ghia-built prototype, confirmed or...