Photo via National Renewable Energy Lab. Ten years ago, the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard paved the way for nationwide use of ethanol-blended fuels, largely in the form of E10 and more recen...
Photo by Karen Roe. After declaring earlier this year that it would not consider modified vehicles as Vehicles of Historical Interest, thus making them ineligible for exemption from annual roadworthi...
DeLorean factory in Humble, Texas. Image via Google Maps. By now, two years after the passage of the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act, architects of the legislation had hoped to see assembl...
FIVA-lauded 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype. Photo courtesy FIVA. While it makes exceptions for period-modified vehicles in its recently released Charter of Turin Handbook, the Fed...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. After an extensive lobbying effort by dune buggy and kit car owners, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has put a halt to revoking dun...
1979 Ford Escort RS1900 at the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo by AtomicJam. In ruling for a charity that benefits crash victims earlier this month, the High Court of England and Wales support...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. A proposal to continue preservation efforts for Route 66 by designating it a National Historic Trail received endorsement from the National Park System in a legislative hearing...
1970 Meyers Manx. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. While Texas state officials claim to be looking into the matter, the state’s DMV has outlawed any rebodied vehicles and has started to revoke titles and...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
Photo by the author. Describing it as an emissions scandal on par with or worse than those plaguing European diesel car manufacturers, the Union of Concerned Scientists this month decried the RPM Act...
MG in central London. Photo by Allen Watkin. As more cities across Europe take action to address their congested or polluted urban centers by restricting or outright banning vehicles from those areas...
1977 Dodge Power Wagon Adventurer Club Cab. Photo courtesy FCA. Here in America, we count the bald eagle as our national bird and baseball as our national pastime. The slot for national vehicle — if ...
Photo by Becky Lai. While the Environmental Protection Agency has done so slower than anticipated, it has followed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for steadily increasing amounts of ethanol ...
1971 Austin Sprite. Photo by David LaChance. Even though the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport rejects the term “classic car,” it set a de facto 40-year cutoff age defining them this month as...
Photo by Matthew Exley. “In traffic.” Two words that could have spared motorsports across Europe from what some have called an “existential threat” brought on by a European high court ruling three ye...
Image courtesy Iso Millennium Committee. For nearly 20 years, a group of Iso enthusiasts has worked to establish a museum dedicated to the auto and motorcycle builder in its former headquarters and f...
Photo by the author. Just about everybody in Wednesday’s Congressional subcommittee hearing addressing the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act seemed to agree that nobody wants to bring an ...
Route 66 bridge in Winona, Arizona. Photo by Randy Heinitz. Earlier this summer the town of Galena, Kansas, celebrated the restoration of the Front Street Bridge, a span that once carried Route 66 ov...
Photo by David Conwill. Anybody unlucky enough to get a noise ticket from the city of Royal Oak during this month’s Woodward Dream Cruise is getting a reprieve thanks to one lawyer’s work, according ...
1942 Ford GPW. Photo courtesy Collings Foundation. After more than three years of wrangling over a proposed museum on the edges of suburban Boston, the town of Stow, Massachusetts, agreed to let the ...
Swanston dock in Melbourne. Photo by David Wallace. Renewed enforcement of Australia’s total ban on asbestos-containing imports has led to enhanced scrutiny of collector cars entering the country and...
Photo by Paul Joel Hancock. Expecting demand for ethanol-free gasoline to dwindle last year, officers with the Environmental Protection Agency instead found that usage came in at more than double the...
Images courtesy Motorsports Auction Group. Insurance can be a tricky thing, especially where something of great emotional value, like a collector car, is concerned. Everyone has a gut opinion as to h...
1965 Ford Falcon build sheet. Photo by Frank Adinolfe. Carmakers may soon have to provide to their customers not only software programming but also build sheets under a bill proposed earlier this mon...
1968 Jeffords AMX-R. Photo by the author. We tend to think of nostalgia as something we do in the here and now, not in the past – after all, the past is, by definition and by logic, what we’re nostal...