From the seller’s description: 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Factory Convertible added Wood *Over $50,000 Invested (Minus the Labor on Wood) “First and Only made”- “I made it” 1950 Mercury V8 Flathead Motor...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
Vanguard Roadster. Photos by Kurt Ernst and Jim O’Clair. Since bottoming out in 2010, the U.S. motorcycle market has begun a gradual climb back to pre-recession sales numbers, but 2015’s 500,000 sale...
As he has for the last several years, artist Stefan Marjoram has taken on an auto advent calendar project, with a new piece of art each day until Christmas. * New Fiesta coming, so Adrian Flux’s Infl...
1985 Ford LTD LX. Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1984 and 1985, Ford build a four-door, 5.0-liter Mustang. It wasn’t called a Mustang, of course, but it carried a Mustang V-8 (albeit the de-tuned one that ca...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...
The Volkswagen New Beetle RSi attracts loads of attention, but it’s not the kind you really want. Even in Germany most people don’t know Volkswagen built a super Bug. Motorists and passerby quickly w...
Mercury’s 1956 XM Turnpike Cruiser concept. Images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. In April of 1954, John Najjar, then head of Lincoln’s pre-production studios, sketched a series of five futuris...
A Peugeot 403 convertible, similar to the one driven by TV detective Frank Columbo (which was a faded gray). Photos by Nick Kurczewski. What does a Columbo-style battered Peugeot 403 convertible and ...
Cutaway rendering of the GM Electrovan. Image courtesy General Motors. Though it looked like a normal GMC Handi-Van from the outside, the hydrogen fuel cell powered Electrovan, introduced to the publ...
Convinced that the world needed gasoline and electric-powered mechanical elephants, British theatrical prop builder Frank Stuart founded a company called Mechanimals, which put these powered pachyder...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Shooting Brake. Photos by Matt Howell, courtesy Gooding & Company. When real estate developer and builder Bob Gittleman paid a circa-1973 visit to Chinetti-Garthwaite Motors in...
Our recent story on the Futurliner had me looking through my file of saved photos and bookmarks for images to illustrate it, and while I couldn’t use the above rendering by James DonVito, it did get ...
Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. The original Mini is often credited for laying the foundations of the city car as we know it today. However, that ...
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...
With concept cars like the 1977 Firebird Type K station wagon, the Corvette-challenging 1964 Banshee XP-833 coupe and the 1954 Bonneville Special, GM’s Pontiac division continually demonstrated a wil...
The mystery motorhome is a 1971 Ferber Motor Coach. Photos and scans by Geoff Hacker. I love adventures. Those that have to do with cars, that is. And sometimes, trucks and RV’s ( like this Ultravan,...
The Borgward Traumwagen (Dream Car). Photo courtesy Borgward. While 1950s concept cars are typically associated with American automakers, a few European companies were pushing the design and engineer...
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...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Oldsmobile’s 1988 model year lineup showcased this GM division’s past and future, all sharing space on dealership lots. The veteran rear...
Though this 1908 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com may not have been an original stunt parade car from the first half of the 20th Century, it has its own unique history – specifically as a stunt ...
Roaming the promenade during the Lake Mirror Classic that is held in downtown Lakeland, Florida each October, among the big Lincolns, Buicks and Chryslers sat this unusual small-scale four-door sedan...
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...