What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
Photos by Mark McCourt. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the November 2016 edition of Hemmings Motor News. Walter P. Chrysler introduced Plymouth to his new c...
1940 Buick Roadmaster Touring Sedan for sale. From the seller’s description: This long wheelbase formal sedan is powered by a 320 cubic-inch inline eight-cylinder engine capable of producing over 140...
From the seller’s description: 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4 door sedan ; Rust-free body, frame and chrome; Older restoration (circa 1980); 217 cubic inch flathead inline 6 cylinder motor with excel...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
Documented from new 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a true, two-owner since new, 49,000 mile Custom Victoria Convertibl...
1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This was a low-mileage, four-owner motorcar that has just completed a two year complete concours restoration on an origi...
Photos courtesy George Ormrod. I once had a 1949 Plymouth club coupe that was used in the Troma Classic feature film Space Zombie Bingo. This is a straight to DVD film I directed in my younger days. ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Can your camera do this? Send it to college. Film shorts along the lines of this one doubtless led to later mandatory disclaimers such as, “No persons, an...
1941 Chrysler Windsor Town and Country barreback for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The example on offer here, chassis number 7700759 is an exceedingly rare nine-passenger varia...
1941 Plymouth P-12 sedan. Photo courtesy Eric Knowlton. In 1967, I was a junior in college and my father finally realized I needed a car. In the spring of that year, he found a 1941 P-12 four-door Pl...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The new-for-1947 Studebakers designed under Virgil Exner’s watch might have had some of the most modern styling of any American car up to that point, but one of Exner’...
Date: November 1949 Location: Chicago Midway Airport Source: Pat B on Flickr What do you see here?
1947 Oldsmobile Model 66 four-door station wagon custom for sale. From the seller’s description: This rare, highly desirable, “Woody”, is one of a kind – sporting classic looks and tons of power. The...
From the seller’s description: There were just 1001 Town & Country convertibles built in 1949 and it is estimated that approximately 130 remain. This numbers matching 1949 Chrysler Town & Country con...
Date: 1949 Location: West Nine Mile Road, Ferndale, Michigan Source: Ferndale Historical Society, via Flickr What do you see here?
Mercedes compact design study from 1948. Photos courtesy the Mercedes-Benz archives. Mercedes-Benz made global headlines when it presented the 190 (called w201 internally) in late 1982. To the public...
From the seller’s description: 1948 Buick Roadmaster Convertible, Older frame off with recent cosmetic restoration. This was Buick’s premium and best appointed model. Known for interior luxury and qu...
1940 Ford Siebert ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: When the Flathead V8 was introduced in 1932, the coachbuilder that would be best remembered for its contributions ...
From the seller’s description: 1948 super eight convertible victoria, 22nd series It was my grandmothers car which she restored in the 80’s, parked it under a carport and used it very little. I acqui...
Roaming the promenade during the Lake Mirror Classic that is held in downtown Lakeland, Florida each October, among the big Lincolns, Buicks and Chryslers sat this unusual small-scale four-door sedan...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...
The model-building work of brothers Cliff and Larry Read continues to astound. Courtesy Gene Herman, we’ve received a few more writeups on how the brothers take inexpensive scale models and turn them...
While this 1948 Dodge B-1 for sale on Hemmings.com leaves us with plenty of questions – which coachbuilder put it together? for whom? for what purpose? – there’s no doubting its unusualness or its po...
Before there was a Hemmings Motor News at 222 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont, there was a Sibley Machine Shop. Today, the Sibley Shop houses Hemmings own automotive museum, which also contains a ...