Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Students of automotive history will soon be gathering in Allentown, Pennsylvania, April 11-13, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Society of Automo...
A 1927 Bugatti Type 40 driven by Mark Gessler and his son, Kurt, on the 2018 1000 Miglia. Photos by Riccardo Palazzani, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Each May, the 1000 Miglia – the modern e...
Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
Photos by Preston Rose, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, unless otherwise noted. If automotive appreciation can be reduced to generational preferences, then Mark Gessler at the Historic Vehicle...
Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...
Photo courtesy Library of Congress. From the beginning, the architects of the National Historic Vehicle Register intended to not only document some of the country’s most important vehicles, but also ...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Aside from a few cars built for racing, the National Historic Vehicle Register has yet to include any modified cars, an omission that the Historic Vehicl...
Photo courtesy SEMA. After more than two years and more than a dozen cars have been added to the National Historic Vehicle Register, a Michigan congressman last week introduced a bill that would esta...
Photo by the author. Scandinavian attitudes toward automotive preservation. Preserving the skills necessary for auto restoration. How scrappage programs have influenced old car collectability. The sl...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...
Leonard Miller poses with Benny Scott’s Formula Vee Lola, circa 1974. Images courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. The Smithsonian Institution is in the process of collecting exhibits for its new Na...
Parnelli Jones driving the Marmon Wasp in 2011. Photo by Jim Donnelly. When one of the Marmon Wasp’s tires blew on the brick surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 90 miles per hour, Ray Harro...
America on Wheels museum. Images courtesy America on Wheels. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize at Allentown, Pennsyslvania’s...
Saab’s 99 Turbo, a possible addition to FIVA’s historic vehicle register. Photo by twchen04. Spurred by the success of the Historic Vehicle Association’s National Historic Vehicle Register here in th...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
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...
Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic...
Ford GP-001, the world’s oldest known jeep prototype. Photo courtesy Veterans Memorial Museum. Of the three prototypes that automakers submitted for the U.S. Army’s new lightweight scout car in the e...