1978 KG Farfadet for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A ‘one-off’ constructed in England and evoking the feel of vintage BSA’s and Morgans, this roadster has the classic air of a ...
Front view. Photography by author. While digging around in the basement the other day, my first Pinewood Derby racer resurfaced. Upon reading that sentence, those of you who were in the Cub Scouts li...
The latest Forgotten Fiberglass mystery car. Photos by author. I’ve always been a fan of the space age era from cool plastic stereos and wild “biomorphic” designs. This interest crystallized when I w...
“Apple,” as the car was nicknamed by the previous owner, wears a 1960-’61 front fender because of accident damage decades ago. Owner Dillon Merkl retained it because he enjoys the “Frankenstein look....
Miguel Llorente is the former curator of the Al Ain Classic Car Museum in the UAE, but he’s also the explorer that “discovered” the Cuban Gullwing. His dream is to open a new museum, the “Petersen of...
Photos by the author. Some of the most interesting cars that Sweden has to offer are hiding in small, rural towns, not in museums. That’s because 15-year-olds are allowed to drive virtually any type ...
The mystery motorhome. Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. When we have a question on an obscure fiberglass-bodied car from the 1950s to the 1970s, Geoff Hacker, founder of Forgotten Fiberglass and Undisco...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can. ...
In the United States, Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 19. Trust us when we say that dad doesn’t need another tie, or a set of golf clubs, or even a fancy dinner out that requires wearing a tie (pot...
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday ni...
Aside from the wide whites and chrome wheels, this 1936 Ford Model 68 five-window coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, could pass for a carefully preserved stock example. Dig a little deeper, however, an...
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...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...
The 1940 Packard Royal roadster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy Auctions America. It measures 31.5-feet from end-to-end, nearly 10-feet longer than a Ford Super Duty pickup. Despite the mostly al...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, in the past five years or so Sunbeam Tiger prices have climbed into the stratosphere, and Shelby Cobra prices have been there for a long, long time. This 19...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
This year’s Retromobile had a special display of what they called rhomboids – cars with their wheels laid out in a diamond pattern – and Goodwood’s videographer was there to get some footage of the u...
Who knows how many backyard tinkerers built MI Specials from the plans distributed by Mechanix Illustrated and old used Fords, but it’s always neat to see another one turn up, mostly for the little v...
Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles e...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...
Photo via The Henry Ford. As mentioned in our recent post on Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster, a number of other significant cars came after it, including the 1934 Model 40 Speedster – the one that s...
Photos by the author. Ten years, eight months and three days ago, on October 14, 2004 (but who’s counting?), Bob Keefler, known around these parts as the man to contact if you need some quality rust,...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
Every now and then we see a restoration shop or specialist’s business listed in the Hemmings classifieds, but this automotive sculpture business for sale on Hemmings.com is an enterprise like no othe...