Aaron Kahan’s 1927 Ford Model T coupe is anything but bad news. Footage: @benkahan Since we’re celebrating one of the greatest annual drag racing events this week – the California Hot Rod Reunion – w...
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
A glorious evening at Famoso Dragstrip. Photo: Robert W. Morris, III This week, we’re celebrating the few days before the 27th annual California Hot Rod Reunion, while absolutely not celebrating the ...
Benny Parsons’ Winston Cup Championship-winning 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was consistency, not race wins, that carried Benny Parsons to the...
Some years back, Shelby enthusiast Lee Cross began arranging a driving tour of vintage G.T. 350 models, gathering a small group of owners to take in fall scenery while enjoying their cars. Each year ...
This 1957 Cadillac convertible has been in the same family since 1974. Photos by Terry McGean. Back in 1957, Dinah Shore may famously have encouraged folks to “See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet,” but ...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. For most of us, a good day in the junkyard means the yellowjackets didn’t sting and the Sawzall blade didn’t pretzel up. For a pair of Ford enthusia...
We spend a lot of time talking about the future of collector cars. And with good reason. The whole concept of a “collector car” is really a post-war phenomenon that came along with another concept th...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
Gene Winfield and Rob Ida pose at the 2018 Race of Gentlemen. Photo by Jim Cross. It seems legendary customizer and hot rodder Gene Winfield, of Mojave, California, is in need of a bit of assistance....
Photos courtesy Steve Linne. Racer Jack Conely might have been best known for the “maxi-mouse” small-block Chevrolet engines punched out to big-block proportions, but squirreled away among his stash ...
Photographs by the author. Whenever I take family photos, someone invariably comments on the fact that I take five or more shots instead of just one. To Illustrate my reason, I usually show them one ...
From the seller’s description: A real 1970 Dodge Super Bee 440 Six Pack Super Bee Coupe . One of 194 built and one of 109 four-speed equipped. An honest, unmolested car. Original matching-numbers dri...
When it comes to old photos, there are few types of subject matter we love more than the motel-parking-lot dragster thrash. You know the shot: An entire car pulled apart, motor “yardsaled” across a f...
If you’re reading this and have been poking around YouTube for the last, say, six years or so, there’s a good chance you may have stumbled across Headquake and his amazeballs radio-control scale repr...
An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
From the seller’s description: For sale is a very special 1967 Buick Skylark . From 1967 thru 1969 Buick built the “California” GS coupe, but in 1967 they were only available through California Buick...
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
Sunroof-equipped 1977 Dodge Aspen R/T for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The SuperPak option included; heavy-duty suspension, front sway bar, spoiler group (rear deck spoiler, f...
Photos courtesy Lloyds, except where noted. Presale bids for four of the cars from the collection of vehicles owned or raced by Australian legend Peter Brock have already exceeded half-a-million doll...
Some of the video that Tom Roche and Chris Osburn of Roche Photo Collective captured of our relaunch issue feature car! In our work producing Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine, we tend to meet some i...
American Racing Equipment ‘s magazine ad for its new pizza-cutter 4 x 15 magnesium frontrunner. Here at Hemmings, we’re nothing if not steeped in history. Comes along with the territory, right? Becau...
Our recent story on the dubious legend of how Germany got its silver auto racing color got us looking for original source materials to see if we could establish timelines for not just Germany’s natio...