The problem with owning a perfectly restored classic car is this: using it as a regular driver is bound to induce a certain amount of paranoia. After spending more on a paint job than you did on your...
We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
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...
Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the January 2014 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Today’s unit-body passenger cars are manufactured out of sheetmetal folded and...
The 1930 Ford Model A chassis, starting point for this year’s Hagerty Swap to Street Challenge. Photos courtesy of Hagerty. Hagerty Insurance wants consumers to know its employees are passionate abou...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
Photo courtesy SEMA. After more than two years and more than a dozen cars have been added to the National Historic Vehicle Register, a Michigan congressman last week introduced a bill that would esta...
Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro. Sometimes odd situations arise during a photoshoot. In this instance, it was the moon. While photographing Matt Barczak’s and Frank Arone’s concours-restored 1969 Z/28 las...
1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This was a low-mileage, four-owner motorcar that has just completed a two year complete concours restoration on an origi...
From the seller’s description: We are proud to offer for sale a rare 1966 Lincoln 4 Door Convertible VIN # 6Y86G413847, one of a limited production run of 3180 produced in 1966. We acquired this car ...
Stills taken from Honda video. Were it up to Honda, the very first car the company built for the United States would’ve gone through a crusher nearly 50 years ago, relegated to becoming another anony...
Restoring his 1957 Pontiac Safari for the road probably would have gotten it more use at cruise-ins and other old car gatherings, but Alan Freed had it restored as it was built – as a Hy-Rail, intend...
1965 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This 4-4-2 is family owned and garaged since new, purchased by my Dad on March 8, 1965. Unabused, never wrecked or damaged, ...
Photo by the author. Scandinavian attitudes toward automotive preservation. Preserving the skills necessary for auto restoration. How scrappage programs have influenced old car collectability. The sl...
From the seller’s description: This 1954 Kaiser Darrin is number 399 out of 435, frame up restoration completed in 2015. Matching serial numbers on original engine, frame and body. There have only be...
When it comes to cars and driving, each of us dream differently. For some, bliss is a winding mountain road and an agile sports car, while for others it’s a plush, family-sized station wagon and a st...
Our Hemmings Project Car with a Heart, the 1979 MGB that we restored for the Good News Garage, has found a home. Bob Hamilton, of Yarmouth, Maine, was the winning bidder for the roadster as it crosse...
After living and traveling in a VW Bus, an International Travelall must seem like a mansion in comparison. We’ll find out how it works as the Schulte family takes their vintage Travelall with a roof-...
Photos courtesy University of Chicago, except where noted. How does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac? More puzzling, how does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete that, all told, weig...
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...
Don’t let its black paint and full fenders fool you–this Ford Model T Runabout is far from stock. Photos by the author. Henry Ford advertised his Model T as “The Universal Car,” with the implication ...
Tucker 1044, at rest in its former Ohio home. Photos courtesy Mark Lieberman. Mark Lieberman knows a thing or two about Tuckers; he’s owned three, two of which have gone on to set record prices in pr...
Photo courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. Not all youth project cars like the one sponsored by the Crosley Automobile Club end in success, which was why the members of the club, upon the completion of ...
Photo by Eli Solomon, courtesy FIVA. In neither of its two entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans did the severely aerodynamic CD SP66 No. 52 actually finish the race, but that hasn’t stopped the current...