As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
A pair of early Jeeps from Omix-ADA’s collection. Photo courtesy Omix-ADA. In 1992 Al Azadi founded Omix-ADA as a Jeep specialty parts vendor in a small rented warehouse. Today, the Suwanee, Georgia ...
1931 Ford Model AA tanker. Photography by author. Ford’s handsome little Model A was one of the most successful and popular automobiles of all time. It had the right look, was the perfect size, and p...
As we’ve already seen, brothers Cliff and Larry Read have a talent for not only improving existing diecast models, but also transforming them from their original configurations to something entirely ...
It’s not perfect, but this 1979 International Scout II Rallye for sale on Hemmings.com is at least rust free and has a level of patina that some would consider authentic – from the cracked Rallye str...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
A friend of mine who knows I’m into Jeeps (redundant, I know – any friend of mine knows I’m into Jeeps) was recently cleaning out a garage just north of here and came across this neat mailer that Jee...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
Photographer Tom Blachford’s Midnight Modern series expertly pairs mid-century modern architecture found throughout Palm Springs, California, with automobiles representative of the mid-century era, a...
While mid-seventies pickups from GM, Ford and Chevrolet are plentiful, survivors from Dodge are less so. Perhaps fewer civilians shopped for Dodge pickups, or perhaps the bulk of production went to t...
1946 Jeep CJ-2A. Photos courtesy FCA. Corporal Klinger, the Mud Hens, and Jeep. Even to Ohioans, there are no stronger associations with Toledo than these three, the latter due to the off-road vehicl...
The model-building work of brothers Cliff and Larry Read continues to astound. Courtesy Gene Herman, we’ve received a few more writeups on how the brothers take inexpensive scale models and turn them...
While this 1948 Dodge B-1 for sale on Hemmings.com leaves us with plenty of questions – which coachbuilder put it together? for whom? for what purpose? – there’s no doubting its unusualness or its po...
Not every old Jeep has to be modified to the hilt to be cool and capable, as we see from this 1985 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler for sale on Hemmings.com. Of course, any CJ-8 carries automatic bonus cool point...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
RVs and camping were a big deal when the Scout debuted for 1961. RVs were a bandwagon International needed to be on and pursued it on all levels, including the Scout. Slide-in pickup campers were a n...
Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced t...
The photo above, which came from the Culture Ride Tumblog, might look a little strange, but it’s not the result of any sort of forced perspective or other camera tricks. Instead, the Beetle on the ri...
To the best of our knowledge, there’s no kit form of old Land Rovers like there is for, say, the Lotus 7. This pieced-together-from-NOS-parts 1973 Land Rover 109 for sale on Hemmings.com, thus, comes...
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of...
Car Zero, the Series I built as a pilot for the Reborn program. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Any vehicle, it’s said, is only original once. Replace or repaint body work, repair the interior or ...
True, this 1928 Ford Model A party truck for sale on Hemmings.com is less collector car than it is a fun and innovative business idea (and, given the timespan of Prohibition, rather anachronistic), b...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
It’s a good bet that many of you started following Jay Leno’s old car exploits after he got involved in the subculture of giant tank/airplane/firetruck-engined roadsters, and he returned to that form...