Love cars? We hope so. Stuck at home? Likely, given the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as of this writing. So, if you’ve already binged through your favorite show or someone else’s list of stay-at-ho...
There’s certainly a lot going on in the world around us right now. Some pretty heavy-duty stuff, to say the least. But we have a bit of good news among the much larger issues we all face: The car hob...
Photography by Jeff Koch We recently profiled the heartwarming tale of a man who sold his high-school car— a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 —and was able to reclaim it more than a decade after he’d sold ...
Photo by Barry Dale Gilfry. National Park Service officials who have worked on the federal grant program dedicated to preserving what’s left of Route 66 say they will continue to support the program ...
Stuck in quarantine, your author has had time to rewatch The Sopranos for the first time since its initial run on HBO from 1999-2007. (It uses my ancestral homeland of New Jersey as a backdrop, and m...
Ford’s Twin Traction Beam four-wheel drive front axle looks primitive alongside the current F-150’s coilover and control-arm setup. But this innovative design, first introduced in 1980, helped Dearbo...
Is this a bunch of Lotus, Loti, or Lotuses? Let’s just say there are a lot of Lotus cars pictured here. Image courtesy of Lotus. Lotus is one of those automotive names that makes for awkward pluraliz...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. All other photos courtesy Geoff Hacker and Gary Cerveny. When Gary Cerveny had the chance to sift through the ashes after the Woolsey fire swept through parts of Malibu in Nove...
Maurizio Reggiani, Lamborghini’s chief technical officer is smitten with the V-12 engine. “The V-12 represents, the peak of excellence,” he says. Though he’s an engine engineer by training—he was the...
The world is a big place, and there are only so many names to go around. But what happens if two cars share a name? Even if they’re nothing alike? We put the shared-name vehicles in the squared circl...
Photos by author unless otherwise noted. In addition to my efforts for Hemmings Motor News, I continue to work one day a week at my first career, staffing an auto parts counter at a company-owned NAP...
All photos via AMMO NYC on YouTube. With the COVID-19 pandemic, personal hygiene is more important than ever, and that extends to our vehicles. Of course it’s a good idea to keep a car sanitary in ge...
While the word “news” is literally in our name, Hemmings Motor News is not the place people turn to when they want to find out the latest information in political, economic, or, most recently, global...
Ever actually meet someone with your own name? I haven’t yet, but I know they’re out there. My freshman year of college, I found three other students named Jeff Koch in the school directory. Four fre...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. Fifties concept cars aren’t the easiest things to restore. The handbuilt one-off glimpses of automotive futures past don’t exactly enjoy huge aftermarket support. But tha...
Eric Szabo had a lot going for him, according to the few English-language accounts we’ve been able to find of his career. Moscow School of Industrial Art graduate; designer for ZIS/ZIL and NAMI; depu...
Sergio Pininfarina. Images courtesy of Pininfarina except where noted. Pininfarina is, perhaps, the best known of the dozens of Italian carrozzerie that sprung up near Turin in the first decades of t...
With its hardtop styling, sculptured sides and limited front-end overhang, the 1960 Thunderbird was a styling masterpiece. Note how the bottom spear flows into the rear bumper. Hot on the heels of th...
Photo courtesy Coys. The only remaining Allard Atom – an experiment in British midget-style racing from the same company that built fire-breathing racers using big American V-8s – will cross the bloc...
Look, we’ve been saying for years now that the world is an amazing place, if for no other reason than it has seemed to embrace classic American cars in ways we statesiders could’ve never imagined. Th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River lapped up to the edges of the old Ford plant outside of New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina and filled it with two f...
1958 Plymouth convertible. Still image from Internet Archive video below. In these 1958 Sid Davis productions, Driving Tips Series One and Two, many aspects of driver safety and a few regarding good ...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. For a full year, I’ve hit the sort of snag that can bedevil any restoration project. Usually these delays and frustrations occur at someone else’s shop during an interm...