Photography by Matthew Litwin and Terry McGean. In the days before trucks were set up like big luxury sedans, the El Camino was a practical alternative for buyers wanting some light-truck capabilitie...
Photos by Daniel Strohl. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the March 2014 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Technically speaking, the Plymouth Barracuda was the fi...
Photos by Jim Donnelly. With rumors afoot about the Ford Bronco’s return, possibly for 2020, we thought it’d be a good time to take a look back at the vehicle that brought that name bucking and kicki...
Photos by Daniel Strohl. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the December 2012 issue of Hemmings Motor News. In the mid-1960s, Chevrolet’s full-size offerings we...
Photos by Mark McCourt. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the November 2016 edition of Hemmings Motor News. Walter P. Chrysler introduced Plymouth to his new c...
Photos by Jim Donnelly. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the June 2012 issue of Hemmings Motor News. The middle of the 1950s were filled with excitement over ...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the May 2012 issue of Hemmings Motor News. At 81 years young, Chevrolet’s Suburban is one of the lo...
Photos by Jeff Koch. Pontiac’s Trans Am has, for most of its life, sought to transcend mere ponycardom and has been posited as Pontiac’s “European-style” sports car. For the decade that saw the secon...
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...
Photos by Daniel Strohl. For 1967, Mercury took the Mustang uptown with the release of its Motor Trend Car of the Year winning Cougar. From its quad headlights concealed behind a distinctive electric...
Photos by Matthew Litwin. Dodge, despite its monster Hemi, had fallen behind in the muscle car image race: the Coronet 500 name didn’t have the requisite sizzle, despite crisp new lines for 1966. (No...
Photos by Jeff Koch and courtesy of Lincoln. Lincoln’s Mark III was born of necessity to do battle in the lucrative personal luxury market against the Buick Riviera, Oldsmobile Toronado, Cadillac Eld...
Photos by Richard Lentinello. It’s one of the prettiest sports cars ever made. Blessed with delicate, flowing lines, the MGA’s persuasive form is the reason behind its magnetic appeal. In production ...
Photos by Richard Lentinello. It was called the “gentleman’s fast car,” and rightly so. It was big, and had a handsome, muscular-looking shape and a powerful V-8 engine that made it run rings around ...
Photos by Jeff Koch. The Ventura-based ’74 GTO embodied a number of firsts (most of them could be considered onlys, until the ’04 models arrived). The first GTO to ride a unit-body platform, and the ...
Spend time thumbing through our domestic automotive history and you will note that small cars have always peppered the industry. American Bantam and Crosley are some of the earliest notables, along w...