A Sunday drive for a good cause
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
(Not the actual dune buggy). Image courtesy Stomper4x4. Honestly, the worst thing about Matt McLaughlin’s comment on the recent Meyers Manx SR2 Hemmings Find of the Day, in which he details his first...
Plymouth on Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard. In 1896, Charles Brady King drove the first automobile in the city of Detroit. His route included Woodward Avenue, a main thoroughfare for the city then ...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. Time’s running out to preserve Route 66, the National Trust for Historic Preservation warned. The nonprofit, which has already endorsed the proposal to designate the Mother Road...
Photo by Mobilus in Mobili. Abandoned gas stations and crumbling buildings tend to make up the scenery in many places along Route 66 these days, but a new round of brownfields grants issued to three ...
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. I wanted a Ford Mustang almost more than anything when it was introduced in late spring of 1964. It was coolness personified. The little “pony car” had dual exhausts, ...
Any student of the U.S. Interstate Highway System can tell you that the seeds for that network of roads were planted in the summer of 1919, when Dwight Eisenhower participated in a U.S. Army Motor Tr...
John Morton on track in a 1970 Datsun 240Z built to include surviving parts from the original BRE race car. Photos by Dr. Chris Brewer. The sun was setting, providing a soft warm glow over the Road A...
Headed towards Kluane Lake. Photos by the author. We awoke groggily to sounds coming from Kevin, Jim and Bill’s side of camp. I unzipped from the bear burrito and followed my nose to find Kevin makin...
The road through Smugglers’ Notch in Lamoille County, Vermont, typically part of the GAMR. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. From 1953-’57, the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR) brought a taste of Euro...
1955 VW Beetle. Image scanned from Volkswagen of America press photo. At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there was this girl, Carol Cunningham, who owned not one but two cars—an old Maxwell touring...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
What exactly makes the Airstream so popular to this day? To answer that question, the National Trust for Historic Preservation spoke with Airstream restorer Matthew Hoffman about the aluminum-clad ca...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Photo by author. Within walking distance of my home is this sign, which, along with others at several exits along I-95 between the Delaware River and Route 1 approaching Princeton in New Jersey, conf...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
I can remember commuting from Albany, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts, every Thanksgiving as a child and traveling the NYS Thruway and the Massachusetts Turnpike to get there. Being part of a...
Photo by Gouldy. While the legislation that aims to declare Route 66 a National Historic Trail cleared its first hurdle this month with a unanimous Congressional committee vote, one town that relies ...
Photo by Aaron Hawkins. The road is lonely, unforgiving, yet full of promise. It is eye-opening and alluring and revealing, yet holds dark secrets and history and horror that you will never know. It ...
Automotive American gathered several of the stories of California car collections destroyed by the recent (and ongoing) wildfires there. * When driving the Lincoln Highway through Pennsylvania you ma...
Jim Hackett (L) with Bill Ford on May 22, 2017. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. On January 9, Ford CEO Jim Hackett–who spent two decades in executive positions with office furniture giant Steelcas...
CPRR tunnels number 6 (foreground), 7, and 8, with the 1914 re-routing of the Lincoln Highway to their left. Photos by Trey Pitsenberger, except where noted. While the threat of having your fellow tr...
Photos courtesy VeA. France’s capital city isn’t known for being particularly friendly to vintage automobiles—with a controversial old-car ban making news in recent years —but Parisians certainly app...
Photo by Kurt Ernst. Editor’s note: This Open Diff piece comes to us from Carrie Houlihan, a graphic artist here at Hemmings Motor News world headquarters in Bennington, Vermont. Carrie, a Bennington...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. A proposal to continue preservation efforts for Route 66 by designating it a National Historic Trail received endorsement from the National Park System in a legislative hearing...