Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum, except where noted. Of the three cars in those famous June 1953 photographs of the first Corvettes coming off the Flint, Michigan, assembly line, only one st...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. It’s easy to conceive of history as a straight-line narrative, in which one thing inevitably leads to another and so on to create our modern world. Excep...
This 1936 Pierce-Arrow is one of three in the JAB Collection coming up for sale June 15. All photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions, LLC. In the past 16 years, if you were after a part or a project car...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
The world’s best-known De Lorean will star in the upcoming Petersen exhibit, “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Automobiles and othe...
Circa 1916 Owen Magnetic. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In the early years of the 20th century, battery-electric cars competed head-to-head with internal combustion (and steam-powered) vehicles for market...
Above: 1916 Simplex, Crane Model 5. Photography by the author. One of New England’s most respected and beloved museums, the Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, is celebrating its g...
On Ventura Boulevard there stands a commercial building shaped like a Cadillac Fleetwood. Back in the Eighties, the Los Angeles Times dug into the building’s history and its architect’s intentions. A...
The Energica Ego Corsa, a pure electric race bike designed for the FIM’s Enel MotoE World Cup series. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Motorcycles have long been a part of Southern Califor...
How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
Dan Wheldon in 2011. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Each year, a panel of more than 140 journalists, racing historians, and participants in the sport vote to induct two new members into ...
All photographs courtesy of Porsche AG. What some might call a loophole, others might call taking maximum advantage of the rulebook. For 1969, Group 4 sports car racing required cars with engines dis...
Tucker 48 chassis 1044 arriving at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Photos by William Murphy unless otherwise noted. Seven decades after the demise of the Tucker Corporation, its automobiles...
Mario Andretti (standing) with his twin brother, Aldo. All photos courtesy World of Speed Collection. Even among those who don’t follow racing, and nearly two decades after his retirement from the sp...
Tucker 48s on the lawn at Pebble Beach in 2018. Photo by Bill Rothermel, courtesy AACA Museum Inc. The AACA Museum Inc., in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is home to the largest collection of Tucker automobi...
1937 Delage D8 Aerosport — Image courtesy of the Studebaker National Museum. As we enter the last month of the first quarter, the Studebaker National Museum, located in South Bend, Indiana, has opene...
McGlashan with the Aussie Invader III. Photos courtesy Lloyds. When collector-car dealer Tony Denny set up shop in Australia five years ago, he aimed to build the country’s largest car museum-slash-d...
Its hard-working days are over, but this ’53 Chevy has a new job. Photos by the author. Walt Disney World, as we discovered on a recent trip, is filled with Chevrolets. It’s not just the Chevrolet Te...
Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...
Astronaut Alan Shepard (center) accepts the keys to a custom 1962 Corvette, gifted to him by Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole (right) and GM Styling President Bill Mitchell. Photo courtesy General M...
This 1936 Bugatti Aero/Atlantic Coupe, chassis 57453, has been missing since 1938. Photos courtesy Bugatti. French automaker Bugatti built roughly 800 Type 57s from 1934 to 1940, making the model its...
Restored 1967 Alfa Romeo 1600 Giulia Sprint GT Veloce for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1600 Giulia Sprint GT Veloce has a production date of 12/6/1967, and was invoiced t...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
Fiat 500 F featured in “The Value of Good Design,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Photos courtesy FCA. Like the Fiat 500 Topolino that preceded it, the Fiat 500 Nuovo — that debuted in Ju...
Joe Strayhorn in Corvair #6000. Photo courtesy Dave Newell. In the months leading up to the final day of production for the Chevrolet Corvair, General Motors fielded calls from dealers, executives, a...