1958 BMW Isetta 300 Moto Coupe. Photo courtesy of The Owls Head Transportation Museum. Not every technological advancement is a success. Some don’t function as advertised, like the 1899 Horsey Horsel...
One-off 1952 Sterling Stein for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Pingel designed all-steel bodied two seat open roadster, built in 1952, and a survivor over time. It never had t...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car — even if it’s nothing we’ve contemplated in the past. Loving a car means dreaming about it, and dreaming about...
Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
The world’s best-known De Lorean will star in the upcoming Petersen exhibit, “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Automobiles and othe...
Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...
The Beechcraft Plainsman, had it been built, wouldn’t have just been ahead of its time, in some respects it would have been ahead of our time as well. The specs were pretty well laid out in an articl...
A circa 5/8-scale Fordson Model F tractor. Photos courtesy Aumann Auctions. Much like his Model T automobile, Henry Ford’s affordable tractors brought mechanization to the masses, and the Fordson Mod...
On Ventura Boulevard there stands a commercial building shaped like a Cadillac Fleetwood. Back in the Eighties, the Los Angeles Times dug into the building’s history and its architect’s intentions. A...
Hand-built 1959 Crosley-based special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very attractive styling for a hand-crafted one-off from California. Designed and built by a sports car e...
1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...
From the seller’s description: Professionally built, this one-of-a-kind 1980 Pinto pickup is finished in White with Metallic Copper stripes and hand-painted design motifs that give it an unmistakable...
A California stop on the 2018 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. Photos courtesy Mattel. Last year, die-cast brand Hot Wheels celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 15-city tour and a build contest that immort...
Its hard-working days are over, but this ’53 Chevy has a new job. Photos by the author. Walt Disney World, as we discovered on a recent trip, is filled with Chevrolets. It’s not just the Chevrolet Te...
The TDX at the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Hemmings file photo. Space Age materials. New units of measurement for speed. Retro rockets. Pat Amendolia’s TDX encapsulated his vision o...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Volvo Amazon 122s restored and repowered with a new Cummins R2.8 turbo diesel. Will ship worldwide Featured at 2018 SEMA show in hot rod alley in the Cummins booth...
The Volkswagen Type 2a camper van, rendered entirely in Lego bricks. Photos courtesy f.r.e.e. and Messe Muenchen. Volkswagen’s 1968-’71 Type 2a camper van — sold on these shores as the Campmobile — i...
The Nmoto Nostalgia goes beyond “retro.” Photos courtesy Nmoto, Inc. and as noted. Any time a manufacturer trots out a “retro” design or even dusts off a vintage nameplate, the responses are the same...
Exclusive paparazzi action shot of Aaron Grote and his “Atomic Punk” bubbletop hot rod at the Playboy Mansion for Mopars At The Mansion. That’s “Grote,” not “grotto.” C’mon, man… Imagery courtesy Aar...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Going into business for yourself requires a sense of timing, a degree of skill in your chosen field, some (make that plenty) startup capital, and perhaps above all a bold vis...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...
Photos by Geoff Hacker, except where noted. Photo History Starting in the autumn of 1952 until the spring of 1954 I was a student at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying mechanic...