Ron Hickman poses with the Lotus Elan. Photos courtesy National Motor Museum Trust. Though he retired in 1982, Ron Hickman never really stopped designing things. Over a three-decade career, his achie...
Luckily for us, the great days of stock car racing aren’t really all that far behind us. Most of us can actually remember them. Some say they ended with Earnhardt’s crash in 2001, but we’d rather tal...
If you saw our latest issue of Muscle Machine s, you’ll notice that the car on the cover is what the kids call a “WIP:” Work In Progress. And the great thing about a WIP is that, sooner or later, it’...
Hot Wheels Original 16 Display Set. Photo courtesy Mattel. Mattel’s eternal diecast brand may be celebrating a birthday, but collectors get the presents. Hot Wheels turned 50 years old in 2018; many ...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...
Rendering of the proposed HB Coupe Classic. Images courtesy of Huet Brothers. Tino and Paul Huet grew up with a passion for classic sports cars, and after a decade of restoring Alfa Romeos, Bugattis,...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...
Stationary single-cylinder engine at work. Photo By Michael Lamm. Too many people have no compassion for engines. I used to have a neighbor who’d get in his truck in the morning, shove the accelerato...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The Ford Motor Company will debut a new Bronco in 2020, after a 24-year absence, and that model name — used fr...
Photography is courtesy of Helsingborgs Auktionsverk. Considering the immense popularity of the annual classic-American car-themed Big Power Meet in Västerås and Lidköping, it should be no surprise t...
During next week’s AACA Fall Meet at Hershey, Hemmings’ Executive Editor Richard Lentinello will be conducting a book signing of his recently published work, Cadillac Style. This limited-edition 128-...
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 ...
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...
Jim Benjaminson’s grandfather, Andrew Widme, purchased his first car in July of 1912 – a used 1910 Mitchell built in Racine, Wisconsin. Grandpa Widme paid $700 for the car (which sold new for around ...
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...
“Motoring,” a 2009 charcoal and pencil drawing by Laurie Lipton. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. Since the revamped Petersen Automotive Museum reopened in December 2015, the Los Angeles, California,...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Why is a nearly 40-year-old collection of speculative fiction about cars gone bad worth rediscovering? The simple answer is that we might find some solace in past cultu...
Believe it or not, the only thing we’re a little sad over, when we think about muscle cars and the Seventies is not the Mustang II, nor the ’78 Dodge Challenger Colt Mitsubishi, nor even the Berlinet...
Our days get busy, right? And sometimes, at the end of a long one, it’s nice to get a little… let’s say… zen. For some folks, it’s one of those little Japanese desktop sand trays with a wee rake and ...
Three young men wait for curb service at the Scotchman, 4960 Federal Blvd., one of the last ’50s style drive-ins. October 14, 1977 (Photo by Ernie Leyba/ The Denver Post ). During the Seventies, ther...
Photos courtesy Lime Rock Park, unless otherwise noted. Opened in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1957, Lime Rock Park has played host to driving greats, unforgettable races, and memorable moments too num...
Shelby in ’66. Painting by Wallace A. Wyss. There have been Hollywood films about automakers, say Preston Tucker. And there have been Hollywood films about race-car builders. It is now confirmed that...
Hemmings file photo. Remaining photos by author. Today is an auspicious day for your intrepid West Coast editor: August 16, 2018, marks the 25th anniversary of your author’s entry into the weird busi...