Images courtesy Slovak Design Center. The field had narrowed down from hundreds of sketches to 20 scale models to four full-size mockups. None of the four motivated Tatra’s design staff to continue w...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
Photo by englemk. Typically after a devastating storm, we’ll see stories about collector cars lost due to a garage collapse. In the case of a 1949 Ford in Richmond, Virginia, however, the recent stor...
Images courtesy Mel Francis. “Something happened that wouldn’t normally have happened,” Mel Francis said of the wedge-shaped supercars of the late Sixties and early Seventies, those low-slung mid-eng...
Neo Scale’s 1957 Imperial Crown four-door Southampton. Photography by author. Neo Scale Models may be a new name to the 1/64-scale world, but the Dutch-based company has been making waves with their ...
Complementary – and inexpensive – automobilia is everywhere, and oftentimes given to you without you realizing that it’s a potential collectible. The most meaningful pieces of automobilia in my colle...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Photography by the author. Half a century of Hot Wheels. Can you believe it? Oh, metal toy cars existed long before Mattel’s eternal “blue brand” (so named for the color of its packaging), but Mattel...
Argentine Ruben Vinyolas crafts some spectacular scale Model Ts with many functioning parts including… a running engine? Mac’s Motor City Garage has more. * The last major renovation to a stretch of ...
In the December issue of Hemmings Classic Car, you can read all about the 1957-’58 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. Two examples are featured there, one bone-stock, and one ex-parts-car brought back to li...
Photos courtesy of theLamleyGroup. To celebrate Matchbox’s 65th Anniversary in 2018, no fewer than 46 new castings are coming across the basic range and in a couple of new premium lines that will rec...
Photos courtesy Cliff Read. When I was a child in the early 1950s, our family would often take our summer vacations at ocean beaches usually located in the New England states of Maine, New Hampshire ...
Kuhni’s artwork for the original Hot Wheels line. Photo from author’s collection. You may not know Otto Kuhni’s name … but if you were a kid in the late ’60s, you knew his work. He started working fo...
Photos courtesy Cliff Read. NAPCO was an auto parts company that manufactured aftermarket four-wheel-drive conversions for various American light trucks, with the first documented completion done on ...
I briefly considered scrapping the entire Four-Links format this week to focus entirely on Lucas Reilly’s longread on Clair Patterson, the chemist/geologist who for decades doggedly pursued the evide...
Michael Paul Smith’s latest made-you-look-twice diorama may be the biggest he’s ever attempted, and he breaks down exactly what it takes to build such a diorama on his Flickr page. (h/t to Gene Herma...
Still image from video below. If you were a kid in the 1970s, watching the following vintage SSP Racers commercials will instantly have you revisiting your childhood, but be warned, the jingle from t...
Alfa Romeo GTZ Tubolare which raced at Le Mans in 1964. Photos by author. Back in the 1980s resin-based model kits in 1/43 rd scale started coming on strong with car enthusiasts who enjoyed the hands...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
With five cars shown on the box – four caught in dramatic mid-jump – Topper Toys didn’t want any confusion as to what was provided, so the wording plainly states, “This set includes one Johnny Lightn...
With five cars shown on the box – four caught in dramatic mid-jump – Topper Toys didn’t want any confusion as to what was provided, so the wording plainly states, “This set includes one Johnny Lightn...
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and ...
Photo by Kurt Ernst. Whatever you do, don’t call them “thingies.” Now that concours-level slot cars have earned a spot among other handcrafted small-scale vehicles at one of the country’s largest sho...
From The Old Motor comes this Josh Clement video documenting the John “Hawkeye” Hawkinson collection before it was recently dispersed following Hawkeye’s death. Some pretty remarkable vehicles there....
Photo by Steve Reyes. Though it’s been 40 years since “Jungle Jim” Liberman died, the impression he left on the sport of drag racing – particularly among funny car fans – through his incessant tourin...