Can-Am contender – 1966 McLaren M1B
In 1965, McLaren introduced the M1B, its latest sports racer for Group 7 (and later, Can-Am) competition, which regulated the number of seats (two) and very little else about a car’s construction. Th...
In 1965, McLaren introduced the M1B, its latest sports racer for Group 7 (and later, Can-Am) competition, which regulated the number of seats (two) and very little else about a car’s construction. Th...
1967 Pontiac Tempest two-door post. Photos by author. I recently returned from the annual Scottsdale auto auctions, after spending nearly a week covering six of them with friends and co-workers Jeff ...
Photos by Matt Howell, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1988, Mazda introduced its latest Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) endurance racer, the 767, designed to take advantage of rule cha...
Divcos from the Hackenberger Collection. Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. Ron Hackenberger of Norwalk, Ohio, is our kind of guy. He started collecting cars when he bought a 1948 Studebaker at ag...
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Aston Martin brand dates to 1913, and the company produced its first automobile in 1915. Its modern lineage, however, beg...
1968 Hemi Darts. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pomona, California, is synonymous with NHRA drag racing, as host city to both the season-opening Winternationals and the season-ending NHRA Finals. Po...
Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type’s success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decisio...
Ariels from Clive Pearson’s collection. Photos courtesy H&H Classics. After surviving two bankruptcies and two world wars, British motorcycle manufacturer Ariel faced a new challenge in the closing y...
Photos courtesy Hollywood Wheels. History has a way of blurring details, particularly when exact records are lacking. Take the Ghia-bodied Chrysler Special models of the early to mid-1950s by way of ...
Photos by Jim Coventry, courtesy Auctions America. Oliver Hine didn’t set out to build a custom that would set the show world on fire and continue to win awards nearly six decades after it was built....
Lyn St. James’s record-setting 1989 Ford Thunderbird. Photos courtesy Motostalgia Auctions. Over the course of her racing career, Lyn St. James demonstrated her talent in a variety of vehicles and se...
1912 Henderson Four. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. January is typically a good time of the year to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, particularly if one is shopping for vintage motorcycles. Auction firms Bon...
GM’s CERV I. Contemporary photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Developed in 1959 as a racing car disguised as an “engineering research vehicle,” GM’s CERV I remained part of the automaker’s collection un...
Photos copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Contemporary Mercedes-Benz 300 SL images by Brian Henniker. In the collector car world, originality often enhances the value of a car being sold at...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
1979 Triumph TR7 convertible. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Introduced in 1975, Triumph’s TR7 was heralded as “The shape of things to come,” and its bold lines quickly made it the best-selling TR...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 2017 Kissimmee auction featured no shortage of blue-chip muscle cars from collectors like Don Fazell, Jackie and Gary Runyon, Dale Reed and Tim and Pam Wellbor...
All images copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Contemporary photos by Brian Henniker. Al Jolson was a rock star decades before rock and roll was invented. “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” ...
We found this 1957 Ford Ranchero in the auction listings for Mecum’s current Kissimmee sale: Jerry Miller of Jerry’s Classic Cars and Parts in Springdale, Arkansas, has been helping 1957-’59 Ford sta...
Story by Jack Koobs de Hartog and Jürgen M. Wilms. Current photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Co. Much has been written about the genesis of the AMX/3 program and it is widely reported...
The Ant Farm, the same art collective that installed the Cadillac Ranch, involved another Cadillac in their 1975 performance art piece, “Media Burn,” captured in the above photo by John Turner. Turne...
1987 Buick GNX, number 547. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To give the popular Buick Grand National a fitting end-of-production send-off, the GM division planned a production run of 500 “super Grand...
Photo by Mr. Muggles. Thankfully, we’ve survived another trip around the sun, which means it’s time once again for our annual gaze into the crystal ball, which smells suspiciously of carb cleaner (re...
Photo by the author. Though the collector car hobby – and Hemmings, by extension – focuses almost exclusively on older motor vehicles, that doesn’t mean it is or we are bereft of news to report. In f...
Photo courtesy McDorman Museum. Less than three years after it opened – and a year and a half since its founder died – the Bob McDorman Automotive Museum near Columbus, Ohio, announced that it will c...