Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...
1982 Chevrolet Cavalier Cadillac Cimarron. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures.com. Even to this day, some car shows across the country refuse admission to any vehicle built after 1972, as if every carmak...
Stretched 1972 Volkswagen Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Champagne gold with black mask around windows.Starts fine, runs fine, steers fine, stops fine. Stock 1600cc e...
The road through Smugglers’ Notch in Lamoille County, Vermont, typically part of the GAMR. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. From 1953-’57, the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR) brought a taste of Euro...
Classic Mini Electric concept, which debuted at the 2018 New York International Auto Show. Photos courtesy MINI. Battery electric cars don’t typically generate much interest among enthusiasts, so aut...
Manual transmission 1990 Acura Legend for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: purchased new original owner with 150,000 miles. This car is not driven in snow or rain and garaged from...
Photos via Florian Kalff. It’s been less than a year since the oldest known Volkswagen Samba emerged from its decades-long resting place, but the enthusiast who took on its restoration project says h...
Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
John Surtees’ 1957 BMW 507. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Introduced in 1956, BMW’s 507 Roadster wasn’t the fastest or most agile sports car on the market, nor was it the most luxurious. To many, a list t...
From the seller’s description: For Sale in western Massachusetts, a tan 1966 Volvo 122S 4 door sedan. It is a very late production 1965 vehicle registed as a 1966. I cannot absolutely verify the exac...
VRG at Watkins Glen in 2017. Photo by Bill Stoler, courtesy Bill Stoler Photography. In 2004, a group of like-minded racers formed a new organization dedicated to historic racing, called the Vintage ...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
1989 Nissan S-Cargo. Owning an out-of-the-ordinary classic brings lots of questions–usually the same ones over and over again. Photos courtesy Nissan Motor Corporation. It’s coming up on two years no...
Date: circa 1960s Location: York, England Source: via “ Wheels Around Yorkshire ” What do you see here?
Graham Hill, the 1968 F1 world champion. Photo by Joost Evers. Fifty years ago, during the 1968 season, the sport of Formula 1 racing underwent a tectonic shift, and it’s no exaggeration to call the ...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...
1955 VW Beetle. Image scanned from Volkswagen of America press photo. At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there was this girl, Carol Cunningham, who owned not one but two cars—an old Maxwell touring...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
Photo by J.C. Burns. While ethanol advocates claim that a pair of recently introduced bills aimed at reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard will dismantle the program responsible for countrywide distr...
The idea was to gather in one book, as many as possible of the very unusual, the best preserved and the most representative vehicles that survive in India today. Vehicles that encapsulate the very es...
It’s been an odd winter at Hemmings Vermont headquarters. After suffering through a deep freeze in January, it looked like winter was coming to an end ahead of schedule in February – and then came Ma...
1976 Porsche 934. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. In 1976, Porsche introduced the 934, a new racing car built for the FIA’s Group 4 GT c...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for...
Award winning 1961 MG A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This MGA just won Best-In-Class at the largest AACA car show in Southwest Florida. The car was recently restored to or...