Customized 1949 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is one of a kind, over the top, custom show car with a criminal history! This beauty has been hidden away in a priva...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. All other photos courtesy Geoff Hacker and Gary Cerveny. When Gary Cerveny had the chance to sift through the ashes after the Woolsey fire swept through parts of Malibu in Nove...
Preserved 1947 Federal 16M stakebed for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Hercules JXE3 Flathead 6 Cylinder Odometer reads 9000 miles Manual Transmission Truck runs and drives Carr...
In pondering whether Brooks Stevens really wanted to see the world move to rear-engine automobile designs last week, we presented conflicting theories about his work: that he genuinely looked down up...
Photo courtesy Australian National Motor Museum. It’s not difficult to find a fault for the demise of the Hartnett Motor Company, one of the few companies to offer a challenge to Holden to become Aus...
Gonna be seeing a lot of Ford Bronco retrospectives ahead of the new Bronco’s introduction this year, so let’s start with the one that The Detroit News put together this week describing the Bronco as...
Unrestored 1947 Mercury woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Clean and near complete Woodie. It was a southern California Beach Patrol car, back in the day....
Images courtesy Milwaukee Museum of Art. After all the talk of streamlined rear-engine cars in America during the Thirties – all the renderings and sketches and homebuilt prototypes and Stout Scarabs...
Photos by the author. One Sunday afternoon in January 2017 my family and I were returning home from a nice visit with my mother-in-law. About halfway home my wife asked me to turn down a new road int...
Patina-rich 1949 International KB-3 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: said to have spent it’s life in Nebraska before it was relocated to Maine in 2015. Some of the recent work...
Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. Last month, we set out to definitively chronicle the history of automakers offering camping packages for their vehicles, either as factory specials, options...
Date: August 1965 (above); 1949 (below) Location: Colorado State Highway 5, Mount Evans, Colorado (above); Springfield, Illinois (below) Source: Merle L. Anderson, via Brian Anderson What do you see ...
Long before the OPEC gas crisis of the 1970s, Americans who owned cars in the 1940s were limited to the amount of gasoline they could buy due to the consequences of World War II. Starting in early 19...
Restored 1946 Jeep CJ-2A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This beautiful 1946 CJ-2A has undergone a frame-off, nut and bolt, rotisserie restoration. This is a very early civil...
Restored 1946 Jeep CJ-2A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This beautiful 1946 CJ-2A has undergone a frame-off, nut and bolt, rotisserie restoration. This is a very early civil...
Holden brochure image. Camping via auto – or what the bros call “overlanding” these days – isn’t exactly new. Consider the many housecars built on cheap Model T chassis during the Twenties, or the ri...
Unrestored 1942 Plymouth Special Deluxe P14C convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This particular example was purchased in 1942 by the original owner for his daughter ...
First off, props to Wray Schelin for taking on a circa-1945 Virgil Exner design as the inspiration for one of his student metalshaping projects. We’ve seen other such projects in the past – for insta...
Photos and images via Wray Schelin. Metalshaper Wray Schelin says he can teach an absolute beginner in metalshaping how to form a car fender in just a week, and he’s decided to back that claim up by ...
Hemmings archive photos. These days, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway looks pristine, polished, and ready for the world stage pretty much any day of the year, and that condition certainly played no sm...
Image courtesy Michigan State University. “The better half has, since the early twentieth century, mysteriously acquired 70 percent of the nation’s wealth and she is determined to spend 120 percent o...
Restored pre-production 1945 Willys CJ-2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is a Preproductin CJ2 Number 38, also referenced as experimental model 62 in Fred Coldwell’s...
Restored 1942 Crosley Convertible Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: One of only three 1942 Crosley Convertible Coupes and one of less than 80 pre-war Crosleys of all body...