Automotive American this week covered the Vintage Hot Rod Association’s Pendine Sands races, one of the U.K.’s largest celebrations of hot rods and American car culture. Tech inspection began on Frid...
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500’s 5.2 Liter Supercharged V-8. Photo courtesy of Ford. With 760 horsepower and 625 lb. ft. of torque, the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 will be the most powerful street-legal...
Renderings courtesy Sloan Museum of Discovery. Since establishing its Buick gallery 20 years ago, the Sloan*Longway Museum in Flint, Michigan, has kept the collection on its campus but in a separate ...
The Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine this week looked into why Corvettes and astronauts from the Right Stuff era are forever linked. After Shepard joined NASA, he struck up a friendship with Genera...
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...
The first of 19 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Continuations. Aston Martin’s Heritage Division headquarters in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, has produced the first of 19 DB4 GT Zagato Continuatio...
Rendering courtesy Pontiac Transportation Museum. Every other week, it seems, another car museum somewhere closes, downsizes, merges, or faces some sort of existential financial trouble. Tim Dye sees...
A 1926 Duesenberg Model A chassis. Photo courtesy of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum of Auburn, Indiana, recently received a large and very ...
Roy Clark’s 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Station Wagon. Photo courtesy of Leake Auctions. Known for his show Hee Haw and hits like Yesterday When I was Young , the late Roy Clark also collected car...
Rendering of The Mullin at Great Tew, via Foster + Partners. The backers of The Mullin at Great Tew, the proposed museum in England’s Cotswolds that would house part of businessman and collector Pete...
Long before the term “adaptive reuse” became widespread among developers and local governments looking to put tenants into empty buildings, automotive museums often filled spaces built for other purp...
Photos courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Since the opening of the AACA Museum more than 15 years ago, the Museum of Bus Transportation has showcased a small fleet of transit buses, school buses,...
Photos courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Since the opening of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum more than 15 years ago, the Museum of Bus Transportation has showcased a small fleet o...
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the NASCAR Hall of Fame honors the history and heritage of NASCAR, and each year a Voting Panel of the sport’s insiders selects five new inductees based upon the...
Photo courtesy of the Pontiac-Oakland Club International. A trio of Pontiac GTOs are currently on display at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The vehicle...
Author, editor and BMW expert Jackie Jouret introducing Lance White and his 1981 BMW M1 at Passion: 50 Years of BMW Cars & Community at the BMW CCA Foundation museum in Greer, South Carolina. All pho...
Photo courtesy of the Early Ford V-8 Museum. Craig Floyd and Ron Stauffer of the Early Ford V-8 Museum in Auburn, Indiana, are entering the Sugar Valley Rally for the second year in a row. The duo wa...
Rick Adams explains the Simeone’s 1907 Renault 35/45 Vanderbilt Cup race car to the summer camp students. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. This June through August, the Simeone F...
Photography by author. Nothing about Tucson’s Franklin Museum was what I expected. Not least of these: It’s in Tucson. You might think that a museum for the storied marque might be located near Syrac...
Images via Victoria and Albert Museum. More than a century after the automobile became a staple of daily life, it has shaped modern society both directly (for instance, the rise of the suburb) and in...
The 1909 Maxwell DA in the Sibley Museum at Hemmings World Headquarters in Bennnington, Vermont. Photo by the writer. It’s appropriate to begin with this car because it is the genesis of this series....
This 1912 Harley-Davidson Single will be featured in the exhibit. Photo by John Sterling Ruth, courtesy AACA Museum Inc. Harley-Davidson is an American success story, rife with both failure and trium...
Matt Anderson at The Henry Ford, which has a Star Trek exhibit running from this weekend through September, took a look at the various classic cars that appeared through the original series’ run. Who...
Photos courtesy Randy Carlson. As a young salesman at the local Volkswagen dealership, Norman Gonzalez started socking away used Beetles as early as 1958, cherrypicking among the trade-ins that came ...
Brooks Stevens’s Sceptre concept, designed for Studebaker. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. From its start as a manufacturer of horse-drawn wagons to its demise as an independent automaker compet...