“ Drive Buddy Boy! ” by Ben Addison. The images of cars in motion that Ben Addison paints come across as both familiar and jarring. Sure, the settings, the lighting, even the cars themselves tickle a...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
We recently came across some of G. Gordon Davis’ renderings on Facebook and not long after landed hip-deep in an amazing collection of Chrysler, Corvette, and various other concept renderings from th...
Hemmings file photo. Hemmings Daily and Hemmings Muscle Machines readers are no doubt familiar with Dave Dudek, who has toppled many a record in F.A.S.T. racing and contributed to magazine tech artic...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
Apparently Chrysler and Lotus’s collaboration that resulted in the Lotus-tuned dual overhead-camshaft cylinder head for Chrysler’s 2.2-litre inline four was supposed to result in even more hybrid Lot...
My friends and I loved to watch Starsky & Hutch when we were kids. Cool plainclothes detectives, David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, showing their righteous indignation toward the circumstances that su...
As with Harlo at The Chicane, we don’t follow most of the dialog in this trailer for the 1957 Italian flick “I fidanzati della morte,” but that don’t matter because the motorcycles and the racing are...
From The Old Motor comes this Josh Clement video documenting the John “Hawkeye” Hawkinson collection before it was recently dispersed following Hawkeye’s death. Some pretty remarkable vehicles there....
Adam Carolla’s documentary on the Ford-Ferrari rivalry of the Sixties, “The 24-Hour War,” will be out soon. Here’s the trailer. * Robert Merz takes us for a Sunday drive in the 1925 Ford Model T that...
How do you make a gas station stop in a vehicle that literally belches fire? Carefully, apparently. Earlier this year, the Beast of Turin made its longest road trip in more than a century when it too...
Like Enzo Ferrari, Ettore Bugatti is one of the most revered European auto builders whose cars only barely eclipsed the story of his life, as told in this short video biography that Mac’s Motor City ...
With the big annual Bathurst race coming up, let’s check out a Bathurst from nearly 40 years ago with the 1977 running up Mount Panorama. ( via ) * Who doesn’t want to experience the Pegaso’s desmo V...
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve concei...
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...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...
Found footage of old race events is pretty awesome, but some of the videos put together with that footage rather lacks. Not so with the one The Chicane recently spotlighted, which shows the action at...
Perhaps one of the most memorable and influential ad campaigns – not just for automobiles, but of all time – was that run by DDB for Volkswagen. To get to the bottom of why it worked so well and how ...
Drag racing in Britain got a big push forward when the NHRA took several of its big names and their cars over for exhibition races in the mid-Sixties, as seen in this British Pathe video that Mac’s M...
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...
While the vintage racing footage includes plenty of glimpses of all sorts of NASCAR notables from the aero war era, the focus on this two-part documentary is on the Chargers and on Dodge’s efforts to...
Sure, it’s a bit sensational to show Jay Leno in the famed Hemi Under Glass wheelstander as it takes a tumble for Jay’s show, but it’s also a part of the car’s history now, something to be noted when...
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...
Even those of us who thought we knew everything about the only carmaker based on the Isle of Man will have something to glean from this video tribute to Cyril Cannell, whether it’s his story about ho...