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...
We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle ...
After living and traveling in a VW Bus, an International Travelall must seem like a mansion in comparison. We’ll find out how it works as the Schulte family takes their vintage Travelall with a roof-...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...
As if we couldn’t tell from previous scratchbuilt trucks built by the brothers Read, Cliff and Larry, they have a fairly masterful knowledge of trucking history, down to the small but significant det...
LEGO bricks are supposed to be square, right? And yet, somehow, the toymaker put together an 1,167-piece kit of one of the most-rounded vehicles of all time. I guess a Lada would’ve been too easy. * ...
As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to ente...
Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced t...
At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...
Photo by 77krc. A pilot cash-for-clunkers-style program that the state of California started in 2014 may soon expand statewide and mandate a minimum number of old cars to scrap in exchange for buying...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
Story and photos by Ronan Glon. Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently took in the Volvo Museum and sent us this piece on the various concept cars housed there. Volvo’s first-ever conc...
Most of the yearbook carspotting photos posted to Annualmobiles come from dealerships, but here we see The Pit Stop, a speed shop in Pasadena, Texas, with all sorts of goodies to offer. * What is a t...
Three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Mauri Rose stands alongside Firebird I prior to his test drive on a deserted road in Arizona. Could these be the wheels that inspired Pontiac’s eight-lug wh...
Big truck! Big truck is 1958 Dodge W300 Power Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. Big truck has four-wheel drive! Big truck has Isuzu diesel! Big truck has mechanical rebuild complete. Big truck come wit...