Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...
1992 Dodge Viper RT/10. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In today’s SUV and pickup-obsessed, safety-focused, semi-autonomous automotive world, there’s no longer room for a crude throwback like the Dod...
A trio of Playboy convertibles were displayed by owners David Kaplan and Lee Singer at the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Front-to-back: 1949 convertible #97; 1947 Prototype convertibl...
The fuel gauge on my Ford A/B speedster is from a World War II P-51-B Mustang fighter plane. Unfortunately, it stopped working just in time for the car’s maiden run. When you’re building cars—especia...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society unless otherwise noted. These are my nine reasons for wanting to someday own one of Buick’s most distinctive personal luxury cars. Some of ...
Images courtesy of FCA Heritage. It was at Paris’ world-famous classic-car show, the 43rd edition of Rétromobile, that FCA Heritage announced its exciting new program to sell a select number of resto...
1905 Packard Model N Runabout (top; image by author); 1910 Elmore Model 36 Demi-tonneau (bottom; image by Terry Shea). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but...
Photos courtesy VeA. France’s capital city isn’t known for being particularly friendly to vintage automobiles—with a controversial old-car ban making news in recent years —but Parisians certainly app...
1964 BSA 646cc Rocket Gold Star. Photos courtesy of Bonhams Auctions. Amid all the very upper-crust collector vehicles that will be featured – an Elton John-owned 1959 Bentley, 1955 Lancia B24 Spider...
Santa brought the writer a 1923 Ford touring car body, which has been dubbed “Tilly,” thanks to the original plan to use a pair of Tillotson down-draft carburetors on the engine. The Tillotsons are n...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...
Owner Karl Foulkes-Halbard poses with the K3 after an exhilarating test run. Photos courtesy Lisa Beaney Photography. Okay, so it didn’t go at its record-setting speed of 130.91 mph that was set on A...
Image courtesy The Henry Ford. Not as though anybody looks forward to a breakdown, but anybody whose car quits on them during The Henry Ford’s Old Car Festival this weekend will get to see something ...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
Lotus 7 S2, image courtesy the Lotus Seven Register For six decades, the Lotus 7 has been the Peter Pan of automobiles, refusing to grow up, wear a tie, comb its hair and find a responsible job. In o...
Lime Rock Park, the historic home of road racing in the Northeast, is turning 60 years old this year, and it’s the fans who are getting the presents. Specifically, those fans who are also turning 60 ...
Photos by the Hemmings Staff. Detroit may be The Motor City, but since 1900 it is New York, New York, where the world has come to look at the latest and greatest offerings from automakers both foreig...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
On the trailer going to the shop. Just love those narrow whitewalls! Photos by author. I have come to and passed the turning point in the Corvair project: More things are now going in or on the car t...
1969 Hurst/Olds 455 (top); 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables ...
1968 Ford LTD Brougham (top); 1968 Plymouth Fury III (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us,...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
1967 Pontiac Tempest two-door post. Photos by author. I recently returned from the annual Scottsdale auto auctions, after spending nearly a week covering six of them with friends and co-workers Jeff ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor No, there’s nothing racy about the above photo, just a wholesome young lady and her car… Okay, so you don’t hav...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Cadillac embraced the future in 1992 when it debuted the Northstar V-8. This all-aluminum engine was as sophisticated as any offered by a premium...