Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. Those hoping to visit the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, have a very narrow window to do so. Late Thursday, ...
The flag drops and the hammer’s down at The Race of Gentlemen on Pismo Beach. Photo by Jeff Koch. It rained at Woodstock in 1969. More than 400,000 people showed up and made the best of it despite th...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. All that free shipping’s gotta take its toll somewhere. For the East Coast Timing Association, the expansion of online retail giant Amazon’s shipping cap...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author. It’s impossible to understate the importance of the compact, front wheel-drive K cars to the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1980s, as the aut...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
1948 MG TC hood ornament. Photo by Jill Reger. At its peak in the late 1960s, the automobile assembly plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, England, employed an estimated 25,000 workers, building a range ...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
The motorsports history at the Iowa State Fairgrounds dirt track, which dated back to 1907, came to an abrupt end this week when the fair board announced that all racing activities in the future woul...
By now, just about anyone who is into vintage cars and has visited the Hemmings Daily knows who Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy was. We’ve frequently featured various selections from his treasury of automo...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As we posited in “ Earthbound Spaceship,” our Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car retrospective of the Citroen DS, this front wheel-drive Frenc...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
1971 Chevrolet Vega 2300 Hatchback Coupe. Photo courtesy GM Media. When I was 20 years old I was employed as an assembler at the Chevrolet Engine Plant in Tonawanda, New York. I started out working i...
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
The Hemmings Motor News 1932 Ford Speedster. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, courtesy The Great Race. It is time once again for Great Racers and vintage car rallying fans to make their annual pilgrimage to...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. Since 2012, Mark Lizewskie has been the executive director of the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and as a board member for The Elegance at Hershey, he’s been a fami...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
Photo by Mike Boening. Along with art galleries, a nightclub, apartments, and a spa, the group behind the redevelopment of the former Packard plant in Detroit may also include a museum dedicated to P...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Ooh, that body lean is making us a bit queasy… 1974 represented the last model year for Volvo’s 140 series, which dated back to the August 1966 i...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “ Born from Jets ” tagline of the mid-2000s may have seemed fresh at the time -if a bit far-fetched for the then-GM subsidiary- but ...
Vintage sports cars approach the Andretti Hairpin at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during the 2013 Monterey Historics. Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro. Since the track’s construction in 1957, Laguna Seca, now...
Photos by the author. The Italian version of the DMV likely doesn’t appear on most folks’ European vacation itineraries. After all, there’s Roman ruins, stunning artwork, castles and clocktowers to s...
The opening of the Holley Control Tower on July 13. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park. On July 13, the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park (NCMMP) in Bowling Green, Kentuc...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was a half-century ago, 1966, when Ford took a chance on creating an International Scout- or Jeep-like on/off road “all-purpose vehic...
Rick and Laura Griffin’s ’52 Dodge Sierra in the far lane versus Larry Underwood’s ’51 Plymouth Suburban in the near lane. Photos by Laura Ball Griffin Inspired by our piece “Suburban Simplicity” ( H...