Our recent story on the dubious legend of how Germany got its silver auto racing color got us looking for original source materials to see if we could establish timelines for not just Germany’s natio...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1984 Mini 25TH Anniversary …Stunning !!!!! 100% restoration, with full photographic documentation and receipts. No expense spared, $10,000 spent on bodywork a...
Breese Paris roadster (L) and Breese Paris teardrop roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. As an automotive marque, Breese may be unfamiliar to even the most passionate Brass Era enthusiasts. Founded by ...
Underpowered, slow, and uncomfortable, Peykans were everywhere in Iran in the 1970s. Fearless Tehran taxi drivers often drove their Peykans on sidewalks or the wrong direction on one-way streets. Pho...
During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...
German market 1973 Citroen GS sedan for sale. From the seller’s description: Citroen GS with 44,000 miles (71,000 kilometers), 4-speed manual. Very well-preserved German market car – very rare in the...
2019 Volkswagen Beetle Final Edition convertibles, in SE (left) and SEL trims. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America, Inc., unless otherwise noted. The original Volkswagen Beetle was the symbol of a ...
Longtime single family-owned 1964 Peel P50 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Family owned vehicle bought in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada in 1968. Dad saw it in the ...
Preserved 1983 Volkswagen Type 183 Iltis for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Volkswagen Type 183, more commonly known as the Iltis (German for polecat), is a military vehicle...
Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...
Photos courtesy JosefGanz.org. Though they came about €30,000 short of their crowdfunding goal, the duo behind the restoration of one of the few remaining Beetle predecessors built by Jewish designer...
TLC-required 1964 Volvo P1800 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a running but needs ‘love’ in the body areas. Originally factory paint code # 46 red w/black interior P-...
Project-status 1975 Volkswagen Type 2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Selling my nice 1975 VW Bus 15 Window Bus running project car. This would make a great shop car or for s...
Worldwide, the collector car hobby has a cornucopia of events to choose from, but if any of them is most like the Comic-Cons with their increasingly prevalent cosplay, it’s the Goodwood Revival, know...
From the seller’s description: This 1988 Citroen CX25TRI Break was imported to California in 1988 by the CXA Company. The seller acquired the car in May, 2015 from the owner of Western Hemispheres in...
Photo by David-O. RVing started long before the advent of the motor vehicle, but as Terence Young argued for the Smithsonian’s newsletter this past week, it “crossed a bridge” in 1915 when Roland and...
A lineup of prewar Bugattis is nothing short of breathtaking. “Gotta love Bugatti owners–they drive ’em.” Ask just about anyone even on the fringes of the scene, and that’s the comment you’ll hear ab...
Mullin Museum. Photo by Jeff Koch. Amid complaints of commercialism and elitism, plans for a new museum in rural England set to include a number of collector Peter Mullin’s cars — along with his name...
Jaguar’s E-type Zero, now production-bound. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Last September, Jaguar debuted a concept car it called the E-type Zero, which swapped a 1968 E-type Series 1.5 roadster’...
Restomodded 1987 Honda CRX Si for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Known as RETROCRX in the CRX Community. Restored and rebuilt over a period of 2.5 years from late 1999 to 2002. ...
The Bill Moyers video on the state of the American auto industry in the early 1980s — as would any report on the industry at that time — heavily referenced the impact of the Japanese auto industry as...
All images Terry Shea and Matt Litwin. Earlier this week Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I returned from a week-long adventure to the West Coast. While most of the rest of the country remained in a sup...
The 1935 Duesenberg SSJ hammers for a price of $20 million, $22 million with fees. Photo by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In recent years, there’s been considerable speculat...
1948 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Berlinetta. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Following its 1947 Mille Miglia victory, Alfa Romeo understood its aging 8C 2900 B Berlinetta would soon be outpaced...
The event was sponsored by 1945 Speed and Custom and this shop was open to browse through their current projects. Photos by author. As if we here at Hemmings Motor News don’t attend or organize enoug...