Who doesn’t love it when the product of ill-gotten gains are taken away in a public court? It’s best to avoid schadenfreude as a general rule, as there’s no virtue in taking delight in the misfortune...
It was almost 15 years ago that I was sitting in my apartment in Queens, New York. A foot of snow was on the ground and, at the time, I was getting my feet wet in the automotive industry. A few years...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
Moonshiner, NASCAR driver and former team owner Junior Johnson passed away on December 20th at age 88. His health had been on the decline recently and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He ...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. The response to my question of whether to show Fred Hudson’s boat designs, as well as his Packard and AMC designs, was overwhelmingly positive, so don’t let it be sai...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Star Newspaper Racing legend and safety innovator Bill Simpson passed away on Monday, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old. As a driver, Simpson was in...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. While the decision to forego Predictor styling on a separate body and force Packard to share body shells with Studebaker might have spelled the end of that marque, it...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. In 1956, with the Studebaker-Packard merger complete and the new company looking to bolster the buying public’s confidence in its ability to build and sell cars that ...
We at Hemmings sometimes lament that the next generation of young people have more interest in phones than cars; they just want to be online and, if socializing is needed, they can hail an Uber to ge...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
The AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame has announced 5 new inductees into the hall for 2019, honored in a ceremony for the Pickering, Ohio, museum on December 7th. Possibly the most recognized of these indu...
Drawings by George Lawson, via Cooper Hewitt. The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly m...
Images are courtesy of Elias Olsen and the Outer Docs Film Festival Striving for excellence is a most human trait, one that isn’t bound by limitations either inherent or imposed. Why should the loss ...
In the new feature film Ford v Ferrari , Matt Damon, who hails from Massachusetts, tries his hardest to “talk Texan” in his starring role as Carroll Shelby. I knew Carroll for the last half century o...
Photo via Colani.org. Somewhere out there a metal figurine of a naked woman — her hair windswept back, her body prone but struggling for purchase against some hard-to-overcome force, and her left han...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
First off, props to Wray Schelin for taking on a circa-1945 Virgil Exner design as the inspiration for one of his student metalshaping projects. We’ve seen other such projects in the past – for insta...
Photos and images via Wray Schelin. Metalshaper Wray Schelin says he can teach an absolute beginner in metalshaping how to form a car fender in just a week, and he’s decided to back that claim up by ...
With a deep-seated passion and life-long appreciation for automotive literature, this soft-spoken gentleman was a friend to everyone who ever met him. On Friday, November 15, the collector-car hobby ...
You can’t rush perfection, and it seems that perfection is exactly what model maker Ken Foran is after with his scratchbuilt 1/8-scale version of Tommy Ivo’s quad-engine dragster. We came across the ...
Images courtesy the Loyed Woodland collection at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. Whoever knew that a post-war fascination with mechanical innovation in construction and drag racing would lead ...
Photo credit: Fox Entertainment Group Does America champion the underdog? The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps tales of the little guy making it big, the evergreen story of heart and determination...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Mickey Thompson sped along at 100 miles an hour or so. He didn’t have another land-speed record or motorsports title in his sights. He didn’t even have his hands on the wheel...
Photos by Katie Neeves, Martin Neeves Photography, via University of Warwick. It took a British schoolboy – one with access to a fully equipped machine shop working steadily for two years, but a scho...