1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sport Sedan. Image via The Old Car Manual Project. It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car–even if its nothing we’...
Tucker Carioca rendering by Thom Taylor, courtesy Rob Ida Concepts. Preston Tucker viewed failure as a necessary milestone on the road to success. A year after a jury found him not guilty of charges ...
The problem with one-off cars, as we saw recently with our story on the Mysterion, is that, no matter how widely appreciated they may be, they’re also most at risk for disappearing from the face of E...
Every once in awhile, a vintage photograph comes across our screens that just stops us in our proverbial tracks. And this is one such shot that stopped us long enough to ask, “Wouldn’t Hemmings Muscl...
We might argue that one of the main reasons for the redesign of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter was to not just celebrate the new look of the magazine, but to be a regular source of…well, alter...
Photos courtesy Bob Plumer collection, Lee Smith collection, Tim Costello/Mopar Collector’s Guide, Fred Engelhart, Ron Thums, Don Moats. It’s no secret that one of our favorite periods of Cardom is t...
Photos courtesy John Olsson. Everybody remembers the day like it was yesterday. Careening out of control, the Fiat 600 smashed through the doors of the 1955 GM Motorama in Boston. Nobody was hurt, th...
Photo by areyoumyrik. One thing that struck us this week was how many of you had stories about building your own minibikes, typically from scratch, as a kid. And you all made it sound so easy, based ...
Images are by RBW Classic Electric Cars, except where noted While the sounds, smells, and feeling of an internal-combustion engine and three-pedal manual transmission have always been an integral par...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. These days, do-it-yourself implies building a headboard out of pallet wood. When the automobile was still in its infancy, the term called for a wider range of skillsets in or...
Homebuilt 1923 Ford Model T track roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Custom built with several engineering enhancements in mind, this roadster is superior to any pre-fa...
If you’re reading this and have been poking around YouTube for the last, say, six years or so, there’s a good chance you may have stumbled across Headquake and his amazeballs radio-control scale repr...
You have questions, dear reader, we have answers. Most of the time. Y’see, Lost and Found is as much a journey for you as it is for those of us in Hemmings HQ — we’re just as fascinated by vehicles t...
Photo courtesy Reynolds-Alberta Museum Managing Editor Dan Beaudry keeps the above photo hung in his cubicle. It helped to inspire his Model A speedster build. It’s a 1926 or ’27 Ford Model T with al...
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...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For nearly 50 years, the curious Cheetah Transporter has remained in a state of flux, unfinished amid a transition to a long-wheelbase disc-brake version designed to mak...
Photo courtesy Big Willy Mutant Jeep. Ian Liljeblad loves flatfender Jeeps. Ian Liljeblad loves reggae music. So, Ian Liljeblad decided to combine both passions for this year’s trip to the weeklong B...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
The White Wall-Rama is held the last weekend in July in Round Top, New York. Photos by the writer The Catskills are kinda like old cars: Made redundant by modern tech and passed by in the modern ques...
Photos courtesy Bonhams, except where noted. Were anybody to compile it, the list of American auto enthusiasts who had the resources and the rationale to approach an Italian coachbuilding house in th...
Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. Many of us have heard the story of the elderly gentleman reunited with a car from h...
Photos via Dick McClurg. Charles Thomas had a gift for envisioning automobile trends decades before they happened. He also had a penchant for returning to his native Western New York to build out his...
Sean Kennedy’s 1945 Chevrolet school bus hot rod — note the custom air cleaner. Photos courtesy The Vintage Tour Bus Company. After several decades in the film and entertainment business, Sean Kenned...
Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...