Wasteland, Another Roadside Attraction
For Mike Orr, a.k.a. “Sweet Lips,” escapism comes in the form of Wasteland Weekend: an annual four-day post-apocalyptic festival held in the Southern California desert that attracts thousands of peop...
For Mike Orr, a.k.a. “Sweet Lips,” escapism comes in the form of Wasteland Weekend: an annual four-day post-apocalyptic festival held in the Southern California desert that attracts thousands of peop...
Dekotora is the image of Tokyo you have in your head — the anime-inspired signage, the flashing pachinko slots and the bright innocence of J-Pop — just on 18 wheels and moving at 100 kilometers per h...
Lamborghini LP570-4 Performante: Road trip from Bologne To Le Castellet Moviemaking by Adrien Raseta
This 1975 Toyota Celica was built by Speed Warhouse in Leesport, Pennsylvania. For TX2X16 they stuffed a 3.0 L 2JZ under the hood that produces 1,049 horsepower to the rear wheels on 38 psi of boost ...
Photography by Courtney Cutchen "When you put the 'CSL' name on your vanity plate, its not something to be taken lightly," Shafique Bhimani tells me with a humble sense of confidence. It's not as tho...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As fans of American performance cars will tell you, the late 1960s might just represent the apogee of Ford’s Total Performance era, as v...
The first two of today’s carspotting scenes from Seventies Bologna come from Impounded and appear to have been scanned from postcards, but the resolution is still good enough for identifying the vari...
The Italian Job Es stimmt nicht, dass Bertone den Volvo 262C gestaltet hat. Es stimmt, dass Bertone des Volvo 262C gebaut hat, 6622 Stück zwischen 1976 und 1982. Doch der erste Entwurf für dieses doc...
Volkswagen’s Scirocco was a hit with North American customers from its 1975 introduction to its 1989 demise, when it was replaced by the more agile, more luxurious and more expensive Corrado. Clean S...
Ferruccio Lamborghini. Photos courtesy Lamborghini. On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini was born into a grape farming family in Renazzo di Cento, in Italy’s Emilia Romagna Region. From these hum...
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no wa...
There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, o...
An old man finds the car of his childhood dreams in an abandoned shed. This is his recollection of the days when the Trofeo Alfasud was at its pinnacle with Fillipo Niccolini behind the wheel, showca...
This is Chuck Beck’s custom motorcycle powered by a Lamborghini V12. When we last wrote about it at a Caffeine and Octane meet in Alpharetta, Georgia it was bare and didn’t have the nicely painted bo...
Boba Motoring is back with their wild BMW E30 extracting even more power. The last time we wrote about the car it was “only” producing 1,050 horsepower. Now the 3.6 L S38 inline-six from a BMW M5 is ...
We've watched over the past few years as values in the classic car market soar. What were once affordable Porsches are now backup retirement investments, and even the bottom-of-the-barrel Bimmers are...
WITH a cruising speed of 55mph, this wooden car is a carpentry project with a difference. Created by Romanian Peter Szabo, the vehicle took more than 4,500 hours to build over three years and cost $2...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage constructio...
Beauty Is a Beast. Fascinating V8 Biturbo Sound. Hi, here is my directed commercial work for Mercedes-AMG GT S. I Hope you enjoy. Credits: Clients: Mercedes-Benz & Auto Bild indonesia (Kompas Gramedi...
The first gauzy green signs of spring in the Northeast can turn a past-middle-aged car-magazine editor’s fancy to thoughts of affordable convertibles. Fox Mustang droptops were so prolifically produc...
Photos courtesy AACA Library. Holy cow, Batman, a trailer-truck load of literature has arrived at the AACA Library & Research Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania! Yes, a completely full, double- and trip...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
Charlie’s Classic & Custom Body & Paint Shop in Somerset, UK has spent the past 18 months in the evenings and on weekends turning a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 into an amazing drift car. Purists can take ...