Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. Last month, we set out to definitively chronicle the history of automakers offering camping packages for their vehicles, either as factory specials, options...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. From this once-boutique automaker’s earliest days up to today, Porsche has happily accommodated appeals to personalize its new vehicles...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Civic has been a perennial best-seller for Honda, selling more than 100,000 copies in America every year since 1975, which was just ...
Holden brochure image. Camping via auto – or what the bros call “overlanding” these days – isn’t exactly new. Consider the many housecars built on cheap Model T chassis during the Twenties, or the ri...
Baby seat, circa 1962. Photo by RichardBH. Survivorship bias arises when we make assumptions about those who made it through an ordeal without considering the data or testimony of those who didn’t. I...
Can you imagine buying tires for your car knowing that they are only guaranteed to last 5,000 miles? Considering that the average American motorist drives 12,000 to 15,000 miles every year, that mean...
1947 Hudson Super Six convertible; image courtesy of Raucher Brothers Auctioneers. Thom Bixby may not have been a well-known personality in the general collector car hobby, but within Hudson circles ...
1957 Ford cars, like this Fairlane Sunliner, were available with a supercharged engine topped with a Paxton VR-57. Image via lov2xlr8.no Not too long ago, Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I drove out to...
GM 200-4R four-speed automatic transmission. Photo by Terry McGean. I’ll admit it: When it comes to weekend cars, I’m stuck in my ways. I prefer small to large, rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive ov...
Photography by author. Souvenirs come in all forms, but none are more useable than the little shot glass. For a small glass container that holds only 1.5 ounces of your favorite liquid, shot glasses ...
All photos by the author. Early April in North Carolina means one thing for the collector-car hobby: Charlotte AutoFair. This year’s Spring Charlotte AutoFair will take place from Thursday, April 4, ...
BMW roundel. Photo by Dushan Hanuska. BMW and Mini owners around the country got some bad news on March 8, when Bavarian Autosport, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based parts supplier unexpectedly ann...
How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...
This Winfield intake, Cyclone adapter (to install a Stromberg), and RayDay cylinder head were removed from a Model A in 1956. Images courtesy Evan Bailly and as noted. We are suckers for vintage spee...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
Photography courtesy of the Rocky Rotella collection. Considering the emphasis placed on eliminating impaired driving today, be it due to alcohol, drugs, or other distractions such as texting, it’s i...
Now, here’s something you don’t see every day: David Bowie and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in a side-piped and black panthered, hood-scooped Pontiac. But seriously, folks… What’s amazing about thi...
Pirelli’s newest tire, the cross-ply Stella Bianca. Photos courtesy Pirelli. In 1927, Pirelli debuted its first modern automobile tire, developed from the lessons learned in racing. Dubbed the Stella...
Holley 4150-style carburetor, as used on the Hemmings Muscle Machines project Chevelle. Photo by Terry McGean. There’s money to be made in aftermarket performance parts. Just take a look at the recen...
Coker’s headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photos courtesy of Coker Group. Founded by Harold Coker in 1958, Coker Tire was a pioneer in supplying period-correct tires for the collector-car hobby...
The Jason Castriota-designed Chevrolet Corvette Mantide. Photos courtesy Aste Bolaffi. Nuccio Bertone received his dying wish: The company that carried his family name survived, at least in part, to ...
Bill Hirsch in 2007. Photo by David Traver Adolphus. William S. “Bill” Hirsch, founder of Bill Hirsch Automotive Products in Newark, New Jersey, died on October 23 at age 90. Bill was a lifelong car ...
Rendering of the proposed HB Coupe Classic. Images courtesy of Huet Brothers. Tino and Paul Huet grew up with a passion for classic sports cars, and after a decade of restoring Alfa Romeos, Bugattis,...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...