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Hemmings file photo. Last week’s excerpt on how Ferguson helped develop the AMC Eagle’s four-wheel-drive system (aside from the acronyms) was well received and got a few of you talking about your exp...
Hemmings file photo. Last week’s excerpt on how Ferguson helped develop the AMC Eagle’s four-wheel-drive system (aside from the acronyms) was well received and got a few of you talking about your exp...
Photo courtesy of the Early Ford V-8 Museum. Craig Floyd and Ron Stauffer of the Early Ford V-8 Museum in Auburn, Indiana, are entering the Sugar Valley Rally for the second year in a row. The duo wa...
Rapid Response, a new movie that tells the story of the deadliest era in racing, not only highlights the ruthlessness of the sport, but the people and technology who turned it into one of the safest ...
Photo by Eddie Welker. There’s a certain romantic ideal that comes with owning a convertible sports car. Being part of the environment while enjoying the song of a multi-cam engine combine to create ...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. For 20 years, those looking to revitalize Route 66 have relied on a relatively modest trickle of money from Congress to accomplish their goals — a modest trickle that will soon ...
About 100 Corvairs take part in Springfest every year, from mild to wild and everything in between. Photography by author. For 35 years Corvair owners in the Southeast have been getting together in t...
Photo by Marcin Szala. In late March 1919, 10 vehicles rolled off the assembly line in the newly renamed town of Kopřivnice in the newly established country of Czechoslovakia bearing the newly coined...
Heidi Hetzer fills up Hudo , her 1930 Hudson Great Eight, at Hemmings world headquarters during her 2014-’17 drive around the world. Photo by Crystal Conwill. When we met Heidi Hetzer a couple years ...
Godard in the Spyker (right). Photo via Louwman Museum. Under any other circumstances, Charles Godard might today be hailed as one of two drivers to take on two of the most grueling distance races fo...
Reno, like Vegas, was once awash in neon signs, and while some still stand, there’s a concern about preserving those that don’t — or those that soon won’t — as Holly Hutchings of KUNR recently report...
On Ventura Boulevard there stands a commercial building shaped like a Cadillac Fleetwood. Back in the Eighties, the Los Angeles Times dug into the building’s history and its architect’s intentions. A...
Photo by David Cantu. Highways these days are pretty sterile places. Sure, they’re far more efficient, safe, and standardized than the highways of the first several decades of the motoring era, but w...
Photo courtesy Italy to Paris World Rally of Texas. The road from Italy to Paris stretches 150 miles, runs through Athens, and is fraught with the potential of getting egged. Or, at least, it does on...
As you top a rise near Powell, Tennessee, you’ll see the former Nickle filling station, a building in the shape of an airplane that has been the subject of a recent preservation effort. The Nickle br...
How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...
In researching the first Peking to Paris race, we of course came across plenty of mentions of the more recent tributes to the original, including this documentary following the route and participants...
Photo by Vetatur Fumare. ‘Tis the season. ‘Tis the season for slushy, skiddy, screamy white-knuckled times on the highway, that is. The season for determining the limits of your driving ability and o...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Photo courtesy Oregon Department of Transportation. Pulling out of the weekend show-and-shine, trophy in hand for favorite muscle car, you succumb to the encouragement of the crowd. “Light ’em up!” t...
Given the fact it’s been uploaded to YouTube and now we’re able to share it, the information in this CIA mobile surveillance training video from 1974, shot around the western London suburbs, is likel...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
My first ride in Greyhound’s Scenicruiser was like going to heaven. Hemmings file photo. “Can you spare a buck?” the alcohol-challenged “gentleman” asked loudly. Where did he come from? Why didn’t se...
At the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Photography by author unless otherwise noted. After a recent drought of classic car culture, today the Drive Home IV team drank from the firehose with...
Dad always filled his car trunk to capacity. Photo by Richard Lentinello. Dad’s car trunk was loaded with so many tools and emergency equipment it would have made a service station mechanic envious. ...