Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...
Rob Ida’s Tucker Torpedo body. The wooden buck was based upon a 3D scan of the original scale model. Images courtesy Rob Ida unless otherwise noted. Before there was a Tucker 48, there was a Tucker T...
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...
Images courtesy VanderbiltCupRaces.com. For 37 years the quonset huts that made up the Long Island Automotive Museum, bereft of their four-wheeled inhabitants, steadily deteriorated into rusted, graf...
A circa-1927 BMW R42. Photo by Dawn Deppi, Eye of the Beholder Inc. Each August, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, plays host to a temporary exhibit focusing on ...
2004 Shelby Cobra Concept. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the 1960s, Carroll Shelby and Ford were indelibly linked, but the relationship had soured by the mid-1970s. After a few years of lend...
Photos by author. A guy walks into a car show’s invitational display building with a pocket full of cash and a craving to buy a Hurst/Olds. He’s immediately greeted by a pristine example of a ’72, a ...
Still image from video below. Country Classic Cars, a Hemmings Pro dealer located just off Route 66 in Staunton, Illinois, has long been known for its large inventory of collectible cars. With five-p...
1942 Ford GPW. Photo courtesy Collings Foundation. After more than three years of wrangling over a proposed museum on the edges of suburban Boston, the town of Stow, Massachusetts, agreed to let the ...
Photo courtesy Historic England. The Brooklands race track will, in all likelihood, never again host a competitive race. The ravages of time and the encroachments of development have ensured that fat...
Photo courtesy Library of Congress. From the beginning, the architects of the National Historic Vehicle Register intended to not only document some of the country’s most important vehicles, but also ...
San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...
Photos by Per-Borge Elg. Wealthy Swedes have long preferred American cars. Sweden’s largest auto manufacturer, Volvo, capitalized on that fact with such series as the postwar PV 444 and PV 544, which...
Part of the Willow Run complex that will be transformed into the Yankee Air Museum. Still images from video below, unless otherwise noted. The Great Race has been to Ypsilanti, Michigan before, and o...
NYCPM at the 2016 NYIAS. Photo by the author. Five years after Hurricane Sandy rendered it homeless, the New York City Police Museum will move to Governors Island and mark its return with an exhibit ...
1968 Fiat 500F. Photos courtesy of FCA. Introduced to the motoring press in July 1957, Fiat’s Nuova 500 was intended to bridge the gap from scooters and microcars to larger (and more expensive) autom...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. Most Route 66 travelers have probably seen – even snapped photos of – the 1968 Pontiac Catalina in Glenrio, Texas. Few, however, probably know the whole story behind the Pontia...
Photos courtesy Dwight Foster. The Smithsonian Museum wouldn’t take it: “It’d be like bringing the bubonic plague in there.” Other museums agreed to display it, but only temporarily. Even the city of...
AACA Museum Night at the Museum. Photo by Mark Usciak. Each year, the AACA Museum’s Night at the Museum gives supporters a chance to enjoy the facility after hours, while dining on gourmet food and b...
Jaguar C-type, XJR-9, and D-type on display in Coventry. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In 1957, Jaguar D-types finished first, second, third, fourth and sixth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but per...
John Cooper Fitch racing a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR at Dundrod in Northern Ireland, 1955; teamed with Stirling Moss, the pair would deliver a win for Mercedes. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archives, un...
Tom White collects motorcycles. But his reasons for doing so go beyond mere appreciation, as this Los Angeles Times profile of the man and the collection shows. * Ever since Tokyo Drift, we’ve seen p...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Original DKM Wankel-designed engine prototype. Photo by Ralf Pfeifer. As the world waits on Mazda to maybe possibly announce that it will resurrect the rotary engine, the compact pistonless internal ...
Photos courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. Each year, a panel of panel of NASCAR luminaries (including officials, retired drivers, track owners, and the current Monster Energy series champion), media, manu...