Pontiac presents the Great Breakaway
Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...
Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...
A Ford GT40 Mk I battles a Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos by author. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve never discussed my collection of historically significant raci...
The Simeone’s 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spyder at a 2015 Demo Day. Photos courtesy Simeone Automotive Museum. In most automotive museums, cars on static display are never started, run or exercise...
Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Though Oldsmobile didn’t field as many muscular models as its GM siblings Pontiac and Chevrolet, or competing automakers Ford and Chrysler...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; Studebaker photo by Richard Lentinello While most British car enthusiasts think of the pre- and post-war sports cars when someone menti...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
VX-6 cadmium battery additive; image by the author Although there may be two certainties in life, as the old joke goes, the number is far greater when it comes to the automobile. In fact, if you real...
Sure, I want all of them…but would that be sensible? Photo by author. When I was a teenager, I thought there was no such thing as owning too many vintage cars. They looked great, were easy to work on...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Arguably influenced by the Jaguar E-type and a runaway sales success from the moment it hit U.S. shores, Datsun’s Z car inspired a generatio...
In today’s world of meaningless and truly stupid marketing campaigns, it’s refreshing to look back at how the old Detroit PR firms promoted their clients’ products. They smartly focused on the many p...
1964 Mercury Comet durability run. All images are frame grabs from video below. This video produced for Lincoln-Mercury documents 40 days and nights of continuous punishment that a group of 1964 Come...
Photo by Randy Dodson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from reader Vance Mehlenbacher in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, and for obvious reasons we couldn’t pass it up. From all of us at Hemmings, Me...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Undated, but we’ll assume 1939 from that cameo of a ’39 Chevrolet Master 85 or De Luxe Sedan. Just how do petroleum products make the jump from their ba-z...
The Dick Tracy Copmobile; images by author. Look hard enough at any swap meet, and you’re bound to find something from your formative years; it’s at that moment when you mutter, “Had I known it was g...
This is the raglan-sleeve jersey that Hometown Jersey made for my car club. A couple of us here are members of a group called the Barnstormers VSC (Vintage Speed Club), and when we decided to have je...
CSX2287, the first vehicle placed in the National Historic Vehicle Register. Photos by Adam Pepper. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Adam Pepper, a freelance contributor who attended last w...
Cover: Patrick Depailler’s Tyrell P34 at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. Photos courtesy of McKlein Publishing. Do you have a passion for racing in the 1950s through the 1970s? An interest in Formula One,...
1972 AMC Javelin AMX print ad, courtesy Production Cars. In 1971, Mark Donahue delivered American Motors’s first Trans-Am championship behind the wheel of a Javelin AMX. The manufacturer wasted no ti...
You know you’re a certifiable car nut when you start buying parts for vehicles that you don’t even own, but would like to…someday. Like purchasing a pair of jeans two sizes too small in the hopes of ...
1914 Regal Lil’ Old Timers model; image by author. Scale models have been a big part of the collector-car hobby for nearly as long as the hobby has been around. Over the decades, many a life-size car...
The Replicarz 1/18 scale 1967 STP Paxton turbine. Photos by Mark Fothergill, courtesy Replicarz, unless otherwise noted. With driver Parnelli Jones in the cockpit, the STP-sponsored, turbine-powered ...
Banthrico’s 1937 Rolls-Royce; image by the author. Everyone had a piggy bank. Other than being used to store newfound wealth due to a paper route or other part-time job, it was employed to teach us c...
All photos are frame grabs from videos below. A trio of Ford commercials: Together, they offer a little something for everyone. Two-Ford Freedom: “Why be stuck with one expensive car, when you can en...
Photo by David Zaitz/Courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the outside of the recently revamped Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; and, if not, we’ve...