Last week, we began our journey with RK Motors Charlotte and the Rare Drive team as they began the process of restoring the 1966 Le Mans winning Ford GT40. This week, we bring you chapter two. Join t...
This week’s piece on the Carrera Panamericana Lincoln brought up the dangers of racing on public roads, and no series in the history of motorsport better illustrated those perils than Group B Rally r...
More than a year ago, the team at Rare Drive Inc began a tremendous undertaking: to unearth the past and restore the glory of the 1966 Le Mans winning Ford GT40, Chassis #P1046. Documented wonderfull...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Vintage Road Construction Equipment Enthusiasts: Yeah, baby! Concrete Enthusiasts: This is your lucky day! Stimulating Narration Enthusiasts: Not so much....
Photography by author. In the blog A brief trip down memory lane with a few vintage Atari 2600 racing video games , posted in October of 2015, I discussed some of my favorite car-based Atari games fr...
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has been on our bucket list for years, but somehow we never seem to make it to Colorado for the Race to the Clouds. Today, the road to the summit is completely...
The latest channel to be added to my list of subscriptions is Salt City Euros. These young dudes by the name of Nico and Max have a penchant for E30 BMWs and some serious skills in the filming and ed...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. What do a cartoon-turned-real-life locomotive, a balding man, cue ball, squirrel, white-tail deer, moose, bullet, baseball, bowling ball and what appears ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. With a sleep-inducing introduction awkwardly read from cue cards by Murray, then-president of the American Road Builders’ Association, we wonder if the Ja...
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he own...
Still image from video below. This is not one of those Driver’s Ed. shock films that most of us grew up with-no real accident scenes, no blood. Instead, this is simply a defensive driving lesson rega...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. It’s a Jam Handy film, so you know the first few minutes are just a setup — but we do so enjoy their creative spins on more mundane subject matters. So ma...
1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT brochure from the author’s collection. Most of us wouldn’t likely equate the Comet Cyclone GT with Russian spies, but it appears that Mercury wanted viewers of this film...
While the Ford Escort did an admirable job in rallying in the late Sixties, the company still found itself outclassed in the Monte Carlo by the likes of Porsche and Renault with its Alpine, so to com...
Reader Gary Rynsburger sent us a link to the 1966 Chevrolet introduction video this week specifically for the camper truck chase scene toward the end, but we figured the entire thing would be worth w...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. What does it take to fill the late-November streets of Flint, Michigan, with cheering crowds of genuinely happy people? Yes, we said happy, if somewhat ch...
It seems like only yesterday that the team at StereoScreen released Adrenalin, a long-awaited in-depth look at the BMW touring car story as a whole. As BMW enthusiasts, its rare gift when art meets o...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
It’s time to seriously consider your summer road trips, and we here at Hemmings suggest that you include a proper state or county fair in your itinerary. You remember: the rides, the livestock, the 4...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
Why do we keep showing vintage films from Bonneville? Could be the stark beauty of the salt flats. Could be the famous cars and their drivers, then just amateurs in pursuit of speed. Could be the DIY...
Still image from video below. Possibly possessing the longest subtitle ever —The People From Fisher Body Who Help Bring A Modern Automobile Body “Up From Clay” – The Bodybuilders is a GM Photographic...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Who says Jam Handy couldn’t produce a straight-forward advertisement for Chevrolet? We can debunk that myth right here: This is an eight-and-change-minute...
1974 Pontiac GTO. Still images from video below. Today, via various cell phone apps, we have access to film effects that can be added to the videos we take to make them look like overexposed, high-co...