Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Company. So-called barn finds seem to take place everywhere but a barn these days: Sheds, overstuffed garages, storage units, and even the odd baseme...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Maybe you’ve heard of Tim Wellborn, founder of the eponymous Musclecar Museum in Alexander City, Alabama. (If not, former Hemmings staffer Craig Fitzgerald profiled hi...
Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. With just 12 examples constructed in-period, the E-Type Lightweight is rarer than Jaguar’s C-type (53 built) and D-type (71 ...
The Snake II funny car. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Don Prudhomme initially preferred dragsters to funny cars, because, in his mind, early floppers weren’t all that quick. It was a chassis built...
Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy of Gooding & Company. Bugatti’s Type 35 was the most successful racing car of its day, reportedly winning over 1,000 races from 1924-’30, including the 1926 Grand P...
1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix D-500. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. After years of positioning itself as a mid-line brand, above entry-level Plymouth but below range-topping Chrysler, D...
Austin-Healey’s 100S was a car built without compromise or attention to cost, meant to deliver racing glory to gentlemen racers capable of fronting the $4,995 price of admission. Just 50 examples wer...
1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Bougham de Ville. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. For over a century, the name Rolls-Royce has been synonymous with luxury. That’s not to say that all Rolls-Royce models are eq...
Photos courtesy Klein Realty and Auction. Blame a 1965 Chevrolet for Terry Hodgen’s fascination with the Buick Riviera. “As the story goes, he bought that Chevrolet new, and the transmission went aft...
1965 Shelby G.T. 350. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To make the Mustang appealing to a broader range of buyers, and to fit its “Total Performance” image, Ford knew it needed a version that could be...
1957 Porsche 356A 1600 Speedster. Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. Prices for Porsche 356 models have been on the upswing in recent years, so it was no surpr...
2017 Chevrolet COPO Camaro, serial number 01 of 69. Photos courtesy Chevrolet. One can’t simply walk into a Chevrolet dealer and order up part number 20179562 from the bowtie brand’s performance cata...
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 Ram Air II. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Arriving late to the pony car party, four-plus months behind the Chevrolet Camaro and the Mercury Cougar, Pontiac’s Firebird face...
Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Don Fezell didn’t build his collection for the fame of it. He didn’t go hog the spotlight at televised collector car auctions. He didn’t build a personal museum for the...
1924 Croft-Cameron Super Eight. Photos courtesy Bonhams. No one knows for certain how many motorcycles Croft-Cameron built during their three years in operation, from 1923-’26, or how many survive to...
The Sonny Bono (L) and Cher Mustangs. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Following the remarkable success of their debut album, Sonny & Cher were bona fide stars by late 1965. Looking to capitalize on ...
This 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis went to a new home for $6,000. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Once upon a time, buyers attended automotive auctions to shop for (or gawk at) the rare, the expensive a...
“Bombshell Betty,” a heavily modified Land Speed Record-holding 1952 Buick Super Riviera. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. At a length of just over 17 feet and a shipping weight approaching 3,800 pou...
1907 Locomobile Model E project. Photos courtesy Bonhams. There aren’t many manuals to assist with the restoration and reassembly of a 1907 Locomobile Model E, but on a positive note, the brass-era a...
The 1987 Porsche 928 CS prototype formerly owned by Derek Bell. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The words “company car” tend to conjure up images of de-contented Fords and stripper Chevrolets, but world-cla...
Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America Museum. Held annually during Meet Week in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the AACA Museum’s “Night at the Museum” gives visitors a chance to s...
1956 Porsche 550 Rennsport Spyder, chassis 550-0090. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Built from 1953 until 1956, Porsche’s 550 Rennsport Spyders have always been desirable cars. Most were raced in-...
2005 Acura NSX. Photo by Linhbergh LLC; all photos courtesy Auctions America. Once largely ignored by collectors, Japanese cars are growing in both demand and price, with clean examples of desirable ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle ...
Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...