A glorious evening at Famoso Dragstrip. Photo: Robert W. Morris, III This week, we’re celebrating the few days before the 27th annual California Hot Rod Reunion, while absolutely not celebrating the ...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
Gene Winfield and Rob Ida pose at the 2018 Race of Gentlemen. Photo by Jim Cross. It seems legendary customizer and hot rodder Gene Winfield, of Mojave, California, is in need of a bit of assistance....
Homebuilt 1923 Ford Model T track roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Custom built with several engineering enhancements in mind, this roadster is superior to any pre-fa...
SBC-powered 1932 Ford three-window coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: built by Jon Golding of Homegrown Hot Rods in Southend England in 1998. This car has won many awards ...
Update to last week’s links to the story of the Wild Cherry van: Chris Carter, the Illinois man who restored the van, has been arrested on felony auto-theft charges and will be extradited to Californ...
An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
Some of the video that Tom Roche and Chris Osburn of Roche Photo Collective captured of our relaunch issue feature car! In our work producing Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine, we tend to meet some i...
Photos courtesy Beaulieu National Motor Museum. Like many a children’s tale going back to the Brothers Grimm, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang might initially come across as airy, innocent, and fantastical — ...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Replicating long-lost cars is difficult; replicating Ed Roth’s Mysterion is, perhaps, a fool’s errand. Aside from Roth’s eyeball-it measurements, his c...
“Motoring,” a 2009 charcoal and pencil drawing by Laurie Lipton. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. Since the revamped Petersen Automotive Museum reopened in December 2015, the Los Angeles, California,...
This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...
Look, we’ve been saying for years now that the world is an amazing place, if for no other reason than it has seemed to embrace classic American cars in ways we statesiders could’ve never imagined. Th...
Hot-rodded 1978 Chevrolet El Camino for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1978 Chevrolet El Camino is a driver that is cool and dependable. It has some paint imperfections tha...
Photo courtesy Reynolds-Alberta Museum Managing Editor Dan Beaudry keeps the above photo hung in his cubicle. It helped to inspire his Model A speedster build. It’s a 1926 or ’27 Ford Model T with al...
Photo courtesy the Howard Gribble collection. In 1968, photographer Howard Gribble made this image of a young Walt Prey standing next to some of his latest custom paintwork at a car show held in the ...
Hot-rodded 1926 Ford Model T coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Car was beautifully built and shown on the East Coast for many years. Four brand new Coker wide whites on R...
Musclepalooza XXVIII, early morning. Photos by author. Sometimes it all comes together. Sunday’s near-perfect weather delivered a crowded show field and more than 200 race cars for Musclepalooza XXVI...
Three young men wait for curb service at the Scotchman, 4960 Federal Blvd., one of the last ’50s style drive-ins. October 14, 1977 (Photo by Ernie Leyba/ The Denver Post ). During the Seventies, ther...
Seventies custom-car culture is being reinterpreted in some amazing ways… in Japan. Photos courtesy Sho Kogawa. Ah, the Japanese car scene. As in America, it runs deep and in a bunch of directions: J...
The event was sponsored by 1945 Speed and Custom and this shop was open to browse through their current projects. Photos by author. As if we here at Hemmings Motor News don’t attend or organize enoug...
Images are courtesy of Aston Martin Media Aston Martin is no stranger to capitalizing on its incredible back-catalog, having recently sold 25 “ continuation ” alloy-bodied DB4 GT Lightweights, each o...