Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Jaguar’s well-received range of sedans -pardon, saloons – worked alongside its famous XK sports cars to broaden the British automaker’s ...
1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT brochure from the author’s collection. Most of us wouldn’t likely equate the Comet Cyclone GT with Russian spies, but it appears that Mercury wanted viewers of this film...
They are considered the most coveted Porsches ever created. Be it the nimble little 550 Spyder, the 356 Carrera or the stunningly beautiful 904, the one common element that binds them together is Por...
Brochure images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. If you remember the 1970s, the saying goes, you weren’t there. For those that have forgotten the start of the decade that saw the death of the mus...
Photos to illustrate this blog were difficult to find because feature cars like these two vintage BMWs normally don’t have the issues discussed in the blog, so they don’t require the techniques discu...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Thanks to new U.S. bumper strength and height regulations coming into effect, the 1974 model year brought major aesthetic changes to alm...
This week’s stumper is a pair of specialty pliers designed for a specific purpose. It performs a function that is seldom necessary today. Initially looking like 6-1/2 inch snap ring pliers, this tool...
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...
In 1958, Pontiac’s optional “Sportable” transistor AM radio could be slid out from the dash to be taken anywhere. It operated on its own batteries and had its own antenna. When it was returned to the...
SS 100. Photos courtesy of Simeone Automotive Museum. In addition to its automobiles, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has an extensive collection of automotive literature, da...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “Glamour Bird” was on the attack in 1968, as this unusual piece of dealer educational literature shows. Not intended for public ...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News There was a period -say, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s- that Honda’s mainstream cars always seemed to be a bit better tha...
Electric cars at Snug Rock, Yonkers, New York circa 1900. Photo from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, courtesy of Automobile Driving Museum. Electric cars, it seems, are all the rage th...
Used car pricing from a May 1948 Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. Old newspapers have always been a great window into seeing what life was like at a time many of us weren’t even a glint in our father’s ey...
Photography by author. Springtime in Western Pennsylvania means the reopening of area swap meets and flea markets. Anxious to get out and find items that I didn’t realize I couldn’t live without unti...
This time around, we’ve dug up another gem from our own Sibley shop. Powered by four D-cell batteries, this hand-held inspection tool was used by savvy garage owners to demonstrate to customers that ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Chevrolet’s lineup was very exciting for 1960, and buyers were paying attention, to the tune of more than 1.6 million cars built that ye...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News There’s truth to the idiom, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” and the humble flat-four-powered 912 has certainly followed the 911’s recen...
A few of the American cars on display at the soon-to-be-opened Route 66 Car Museum. Photos courtesy of Springfield Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, unless otherwise noted. Like many collectors, Guy M...
Before there was a Hemmings Motor News at 222 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont, there was a Sibley Machine Shop. Today, the Sibley Shop houses Hemmings own automotive museum, which also contains a ...
1957 Maserati 250F, the fifth work in the Disintegrating II series. Photos courtesy Studio Oefner. Swiss artist Fabian Oefner sees things differently than the rest of us. Not content to view cars (or...
Here’s another from the back of my special tool drawer. It’s one I used to use occasionally, although I don’t have a need for it at the moment. That’s not because I sold the car, by the way, but beca...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As fans of American performance cars will tell you, the late 1960s might just represent the apogee of Ford’s Total Performance era, as v...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
All artwork from Stefan Marjoram’s 2015 Auto Art Advent series. Courtesy of Stefan Marjoram. Artist, photographer, animator and filmmaker Stefan Marjoram has been sprinkling a little extra magic into...