Do you have a passion for, and a collection of, Italian automobiles and motorcycles? Would you like to help support the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania? Do you understand the phrase “Amore della...
Billy Durant (l) and Dallas Dort. Photos courtesy Lawrence L. Gustin. If you’re a longtime reader of the Hemmings titles, Lawrence L. Gustin should be a familiar name. A career reporter and editor of...
Photos courtesy National Packard Museum. Since 2001, the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, has hosted an annual antique motorcycle exhibit, many of which have drawn top honors from the Antique...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
The Simeone’s 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spyder at a 2015 Demo Day. Photos courtesy Simeone Automotive Museum. In most automotive museums, cars on static display are never started, run or exercise...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...
Sure, I want all of them…but would that be sensible? Photo by author. When I was a teenager, I thought there was no such thing as owning too many vintage cars. They looked great, were easy to work on...
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the ow...
Bob Bondurant, photo by John Prumatico. All photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum has maintained a Hall of Fame since 1998 to honor individuals who have been influent...
CSX2287, the first vehicle placed in the National Historic Vehicle Register. Photos by Adam Pepper. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Adam Pepper, a freelance contributor who attended last w...
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal sha...
Photos courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Donald Gilmore didn’t even care much for old cars before he retired, but his wife, Genevieve, figured he needed something, anything, to keep him busy after a long ...
Photo by David Zaitz/Courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the outside of the recently revamped Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; and, if not, we’ve...