Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic...
Here are a few examples of items normally used in the kitchen or bathroom that can help make projects in the garage easier. Photos by author. Areas like the garage, workshop and basement are sometime...
Photos via Customs and Hot Rods of Andice. The catalogs and reference books all say it shouldn’t exist, but according to both its owner and the shop that built it, the 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 that ...
How much can you really know about a car that you haven’t owned from new yourself? In the case of this 1965 Austin-Healey Mk III BJ8, for sale on Hemmings.com, the answer is “quite a bit.” Purchased ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...
Photography by author. Back in the pre-war motoring days, few cars had heaters. Although under-dash heaters were a rare option, and dangerous as the early heaters used gasoline, even then many people...
Launched in 1990, the Z32 Nissan 300ZX was a radical departure from its predecessor, both in terms of styling and in performance. Clothed in sexy new sheetmetal, the reborn Nissan Z offered a reworke...
August 2, 2015, offloading the car from the transporter. Photos courtesy Don Homuth. Editor’s note: Last August, we brought you the story of Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Da...
A DS wagon? Bien sur, mes amis. In the late 1950s, worried about losing market share to new station wagons introduced by Simca, Renault and Peugeot, Citroën decided to create a cargo-friendly version...
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. I...
Photo courtesy FCA. Under existing law, the Dodge Viper above – along with any car manufactured after 1988 – has a snowball’s chance of making its way to Australia and remaining there, but a set of r...
The winning 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II. Photos by Andrew Taylor unless otherwise noted. Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is home to roughly 65 historically significant sports and competi...
The winning 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II. Photos by Andrew Taylor unless otherwise noted. Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is home to roughly 65 historically significant sports and competi...
Photo by loonyhiker. After months of meetings with land-speed racers, mining companies, and federal agencies, the Utah House of Representatives late last week passed a bill urging the Bureau of Land ...
The story of the little aluminum V-8 that GM sidelined and Rover wisely snapped up is fascinating and you can read all about it here, in the June 2006 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Or you could learn...
Still from AACA Library film. With hundreds of deteriorating old films in its collection, the folks at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s library started to investigate how to digitize and pres...
Photos courtesy Victory Motorcycles, unless otherwise noted. If all goes as planned, Urs Pedraita, a Swiss motorcyclist who goes by the nickname “Grizzly,” will depart Daytona Beach, Florida, on Frid...
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. Photo courtesy GM Media archives. It’s February, and it’s minus 2-degrees outside with twice-frozen crunchy snow blanketing everything. My ears are ringing, my head is conges...
Our friends across the pond have a wonderful description of disorder, calling it “the dog’s breakfast.” While most $5,000 Challenge installments have a common theme, this one does not. There are spor...
Though Volkswagen Beetles taught a generation of us the joys of the three pedal shuffle, they typically draw mixed reviews among Hemmings readers. Some praise them for their all-season traction, forg...
A Porsche 911 is pulled from a burned Passport Transport van. Photo courtesy WKRN-TV. On February 15, a Passport Transport trailer hauling a load of collector cars caught fire on I-65 in Williamson C...
Photos by Mark McCourt Collector: A person who accumulates a number of similar or related objects, particularly for a hobby or recreation. Curator: A person who manages, administers, or organizes a c...
Photo by Lars Plougmann. With the release of long-awaited ethanol-blending target numbers late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency managed to draw ire from both renewable fuels supporters ...
The AACA’s Michael J. Jones (L) with Coker Tire’s Wade Kawasaki. Images courtesy Coker Tire. On Saturday, February 13, the Antique Automobile Club of America held its 80th annual national awards banq...
During the early days of the Cold War, in an effort to prepare cities for a potential nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, the federal government ordered up 1,300 Civil Defense Rescue Service truc...