Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
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....
1951 Chrysler Saratoga magazine ad. Period advertising courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. For those of you who have never owned a 1951-’52 Chrysler Saratoga, you can’t imagine what great cars those really were...
Review by John L. Jacobus. This is a book about an Ed Roth fanatic, an amateur hot rodder and gearhead, namely Jeffrey A. Jones of Bakersfield, California, who created a clone of Ed Roth’s famous Mys...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...
Pete Chapouris. Image courtesy of SoCal Speed Shop. Who knows how life might have turned out for Pete Chapouris had his chopped and flamed ’34 Ford coupe not graced the cover of the November 1973 iss...
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...
Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...
As with Harlo at The Chicane, we don’t follow most of the dialog in this trailer for the 1957 Italian flick “I fidanzati della morte,” but that don’t matter because the motorcycles and the racing are...
Riley OHV-headed 1932 Ford roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Riley Roadster sports a very rare Riley V8 OHV conversion kit The Riley motor was owned by Harold Joha...
Photos courtesy AACA Museum. We’ll stick our neck out here and salivate that this is one of most gorgeous modern customs we’ve laid eyes on in years. This incredible 1940 Mercury coupe is owned by Ja...
Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/...
Photo by Mr. Nixter. Typically it’s a flesh-and-blood living person who takes home a lifetime achievement award, but the judges for the International Historic Motoring Awards, perhaps acknowledging t...
Hot-rodded 1967 Volvo 122S for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very clean rust free , accident free Volvo 122S Amazon. original Black plate CA car. This car was built for perform...
Whenever we see images of Mel Stultz and Bobby Green’s “Frozen Few” vintage-motorcycle ice racing, we are reminded of the Swedish Winter Grand Prix (and wonder why we don’t get invited to race old ho...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...
N100001, the first Camaro built on the pilot assembly line, displayed in the GM booth. Photos by author. Though it was conceived as an industry trade show to support the automotive aftermarket perfor...
1978 Datsun 280Z Black Pearl coupe for sale, owned by frequent Hemmings Daily contributor Don Homuth. From the seller’s description: I don’t want to die with this car. It would be most unfair of me t...
The flag drops and the hammer’s down at The Race of Gentlemen on Pismo Beach. Photo by Jeff Koch. It rained at Woodstock in 1969. More than 400,000 people showed up and made the best of it despite th...
This ’68 Firebird is wearing reproduction bias-ply Wide Oval tires. Photo by author. It’s hard to believe that it has been 50 years since Firestone introduced its illustrious Super Sports Wide Oval t...
The car that won the first Indianapolis 500, the 1911 Marmon Wasp, on display in Shell’s SEMA booth. Photos by Steve Berry. Every year, the automotive aftermarket flocks to Las Vegas in early Novembe...
Photo courtesy John Raffensparger, Sr. My Studebaker was a 1949 four-door Champion that was painted Cumberland Green, and in very good condition. The price was right – $400, which I borrowed from my ...
A gathering of Rolling Bones creations at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2011. Photo by Peter Vincent. Hot rodding was born as a pure pursuit of speed, but as factory efforts caught up to and finally o...
While the Toyota 2JZ isn’t quite the ubiquitous engine swap as the SBC or the LS, the straight-six still manages to make its way in between the frame rails of a good diversity of cars, trucks, and ot...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. All that free shipping’s gotta take its toll somewhere. For the East Coast Timing Association, the expansion of online retail giant Amazon’s shipping cap...