Photos courtesy AACA Library. “Baby” is 63 years old, 5,000 pounds, and rated at three-quarter ton. But after a seven-year restoration of the 1955 Chevrolet bookmobile, Baby is also brand-spanking ne...
Photos by Matthew Litwin. More than a mere shortened Javelin, the original two-seater AMX was a true sports car in its own right, and for its 50th anniversary next year, AMC enthusiasts are planning ...
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 ...
Patrick Rollet with his 1932 Lagonda 16/80 Semi Sports. Photo provided. Our recent articles on the Charter of Turin Handbook and on what categories of vehicle the Fédération Internationale des Véhicu...
Photo courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Editor’s Note: In response to an earlier Hemmings Daily article covering the Charter of Turin Handbook , a guide to preserving historic vehicles published...
Tucker gallery at the AACA Museum. Photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. With just a fraction of its peak membership and dwindling engagement, The Tucker Automobile Club of America has reache...
Photos courtesy VeA. France’s capital city isn’t known for being particularly friendly to vintage automobiles—with a controversial old-car ban making news in recent years —but Parisians certainly app...
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...
FIVA-lauded 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype. Photo courtesy FIVA. While it makes exceptions for period-modified vehicles in its recently released Charter of Turin Handbook, the Fed...
Photo by CleftClips. One would think the fluorescent orange signs would do the trick. Or perhaps the flashing LED lights mounted to those signs. But the Southern California Timing Association has dec...
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...
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...
Photo via Arkansas Department of Aeronautics. Though it lies just west of the Mississippi, the runway at the Arkansas International Airport has been selected as the new home for the East Coast Timing...
Images via Google Street View. While the Antique Automobile Club of America’s current digs have an undeniably exceptional provenance as a former dormitory for the Milton Hershey School, they lack in ...
Ross Paswell, convicted of auto theft in 1945. Mugshots courtesy angusmcdiarmid on Flickr. They make it look easy in the movies: Fiddle around under the steering wheel, strip some wires, and touch tw...
Rendering courtesy AACA Museum. Back in April, our friends at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, announced that they had recently reached their fundraising goals to construct a new visitor ent...
Photos courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Kaela Petkovits grew up in her father’s Checker taxis as he drove the streets of Seattle in the Eighties and dreamed of having her own to drive somed...
The Dadamore might never have progressed beyond the drawings of an eight-year-old boy, but it still caught the attention of AMC Canada President Bill Pickett. Old Cars Canada has the full story on ho...
Image courtesy The Race of Gentlemen. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, especially knowing the naysayers will be quick to crow, “I told you so.” But that’s exactly what Mel Stultz, founder...
The Gentleman Racer this week took a look at all the various re-bodied Cobras, either by Ford itself or by coachbuilders such as Ghia. * Will cars soon be relegated to museum curiosities, or will the...
Photos courtesy AACA. It typically takes a dedicated restoration shop and plenty of blank checks to turn out national award-winning restorations, but Richard Harding managed to take this past weekend...
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...
Photos by the author. Discussions of performance cars from American Motors usually start and stop with the AMX and Javelin, but it was the muscular one-year-only Rambler Rebel that outsped its contem...
Photos by the author. Hemmings recently tagged along as crew during the fledgling 2017 Rally Historico Transpeninsular (full story forthcoming). As the rally wound its way down Mex-1 in the Baja peni...
1930 Buick series 60. Illustrations courtesy Classic Car Club of America. At its recent annual meeting in Reno, Nevada, the list of approved Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) Full Classics grew by t...