Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Here’s a topic we could probably write reams about, if we only could figure out terminology. You see, the Germans have for many years now used a term, “Youngtimer,” to...
MIT prank. Photo courtesy rich701. Be forewarned! Trickery is or may be afoot today. Mischief and tomfoolery may encroach on your well-deserved slumber and quietude, so in order to prepare you for th...
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...
The Miata in winter storage. Photo by author. It’s been a long, cold winter here in Vermont, and if history is any indicator, it isn’t over quite yet. While my own seasonal car isn’t a collector’s it...
Caught in the fence. Photo by Neal Sanche. Stories that appear in the Hemmings Daily – and later on Hemmings.com – generate between 200-300 comments on an average day. Some responses are little more ...
Photo by Alexander Rabb. In larger cities, automobile rows stretched as long as a mile, chock-full of automobile dealerships with their neon ablaze, service stations with rotating signs, and parts st...
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...
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...
A 1952 Packard 200 Deluxe Touring Sedan. Images via OldCarAdvertising.com. You often hear about “the one that got away” — a car or truck that somebody once owned that they regret selling. I don’t act...
Photo courtesy Lamborghini. We’ve all been there. “Choose your battles,” they say, but you just can’t let it go; you have to prove yourself right – or, at the very least, prove somebody else wrong. A...
2019 Ford Fusion. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. It began as a trickle: In 2016, FCA killed off the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200, leaving the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 as the sol...
The problem with one-off cars, as we saw recently with our story on the Mysterion, is that, no matter how widely appreciated they may be, they’re also most at risk for disappearing from the face of E...
Image courtesy FCA. You are a rational and intelligent human being. You are able to make sense of the world around you, solve problems methodically, and pay your taxes every year. However, if you’re ...
Image courtesy IMDCB. You’ve just robbed a bank. Presuming nobody died in the process and the bank is fully insured, congratulations. The obvious question — what car you’re gonna buy with all that mo...
Photo by Thomas Geersing. You can’t save them all, of course. Cars, though made of durable materials like steel and glass, are ultimately impermanent things and all of them — even the ones we cherish...
Jessica Hartwig’s typographic map of Detroit, via Detroitography. The inclusion of Woodward Avenue on PBS’ 10 Streets That Changed America was certainly warranted, given its role in the motorization ...
Ford’s 1990 Taurus SHO. Photo courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Recently, Ford announced it was turning its back on automobiles in North America to focus on trucks, crossovers, and SUVs. The Mustang so...
Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. The recent interview with new CCCA President Carrol Jensen provoked a good deal of thoughtful discussion about the future of the club in particular and the hobby in...
Remington typewriter. Photo by Matt. The internet isn’t always a friendly place. No matter where you navigate your browser these days, it often comes down to this: people love to argue, infused perha...
Photo by Wayne Stadler. Pretty much any time we make mention of The Henry Ford here, somebody chimes in on the comments that it should be on every car guy’s bucket list. And that got us thinking: Wha...
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...
Photo by the author. So, my column in the December 2017 issue of Hemmings Motor News generated quite the response over how to attract more young people into the old car hobby. All of the responses we...
Image via IMCDB.org. So you’ve got a car, and it’s probably been referenced in the movies or on TV somehow. Or in comics. Or in a popular song. And, of course, at every car show people want to know i...
By itself, it’s a wholly unremarkable ball of aluminum with a black textured finish, measuring roughly two inches in diameter. Featuring a collar at the bottom, the item is drilled and tapped with a ...
Still from Primus’ “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver.” It shouldn’t surprise most people that songs don’t really mean what they appear to mean at first glance, particularly since rock and roll began shack...