The Shelby GT500 KR’s 50th birthday? It’s as good an excuse as any to put on a movie night and car show at Carroll Shelby International in California this Friday and Saturday. According to organizers...
Near mint survivor. Low miles. All original. Photo by Don O’Brien. We look at a lot of classified ads in the course of pasting together each day’s Hemmings Daily, and over time, it becomes evident th...
Original owner 1988 Chrysler Fifth Avenue for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original owner. Never any rust or accidents. Always garaged. Never driven in winter. Original paint,...
1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88, raced at Le Mans, Sebring, and Daytona. Photo by Mike McNessor. Built for three years, from 1967-’69, Chevy’s L-88 Corvette was a race car that, coincidentally, could als...
From the seller’s description: Nice restoration of RARE 1948 Packard 2 Door Custom Club Sedan . Resoration completed in 2016. Documentation: -Model 2255 Custom Club Sedan 22nd Series VIN #2255 2241 w...
Any student of the U.S. Interstate Highway System can tell you that the seeds for that network of roads were planted in the summer of 1919, when Dwight Eisenhower participated in a U.S. Army Motor Tr...
From the seller’s description: Have for sale 57 Bel Air 2 door hardtop finished in the original matador red color and wearing American Classic wide white radials. The car has undergone a frame off re...
We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...
From the seller’s description: This is a Great Recent Restoration of a 1952 Nash Statesman Designed by the Renowned Italian Car Designer Pininfarina. This is the First Year of the Pininfarina Series ...
Stout Scarab. Photos courtesy Portland Art Museum, except where noted. The advent of streamlining not only enabled car designers to radically experiment with both the style and substance of the autom...
Ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Add dirt, add drama! It was a simple and effective recipe for 1960s new-car ads at General Motors and some other automakers. A dirt road o...
Raced in-period 1958 Lotus Seven , powered by a Coventry Climax 1.2-liter engine, for sale. From the seller’s description: This Lotus Seven was Factory Assembled and one of the first 4 Imported to th...
Jim France. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. In 1948, William H.G. “Big Bill” France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), both to grow the sp...
Still image captured from public domain film hosted on the Internet Archive. This educational film employs various teaching aids such as animation, component cutaways, exploded views, working transpa...
1959 Rover 90 four-door sedan , from the much beloved P4 series, for sale. From the seller’s description: Great car.great compression,peppy 6 cyl. rides very smoothly, shifts, corners, and stops, as ...
Image courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Carroll Jensen certainly believes the Classic Car Club of America can only grow by attracting younger members. However, the newly elected president of the ...
Attendees at 2017’s Automotive Restoration Camp. Photos courtesy Pennsylvania College of Technology. Did you build a career from the skills learned in summer camp? For most of us, the answer is “no,”...
Photos by the author. “Holy Hemi Power!” Those were the words out of my mouth the moment I spotted Marty Martino’s latest project, “The Aqua Bat.” Though it will never float again, this customized bo...
Photos courtesy Kory Anderson. Nobody has seen one in close to a century, and they’d know it if they had: With eight-foot-tall drive wheels, a boiler a full-grown man could walk under, and the capaci...
Photos courtesy of Daimler Benz. Though produced for just four years, the W198 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” coupe had a tremendous and lasting impact on the automotive world. Voted “Sports Car of ...
John Morton on track in a 1970 Datsun 240Z built to include surviving parts from the original BRE race car. Photos by Dr. Chris Brewer. The sun was setting, providing a soft warm glow over the Road A...