There are many reasons why automotive restoration projects don’t always succeed. Sometimes, the hobbyist finds himself over his (or her) head, and frustration overwhelms interest in finishing the car...
1968 Hemi Darts. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pomona, California, is synonymous with NHRA drag racing, as host city to both the season-opening Winternationals and the season-ending NHRA Finals. Po...
From the seller’s description: 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Sport Sedan. The big one. Very low 59K ORIGINAL miles. Solid original unmolested complete antique. There is no rust. Decent chrome. An expensi...
Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type’s success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decisio...
2000 Excelsior-Henderson Super X. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. On December 21, 1999, the Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Company, a revival of a once-storied American brand, filed for Chapter 11 ban...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Did the late 1970s represent the peak of “personal luxury” coupe ownership in America? It’s true that, 40 years...
1955 Packard Four-Hundred for sale. From the seller’s description: The first owner purchased this car new from Packard of New Haven, CT. He owned it for quite a few years and sold it to a good friend...
1947 Chrysler Town and Country sedan. Photo courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Sixty-five years. The Antique Automobile Club of America and the Classic Car Club of America have co-existed for long...
Images courtesy the Mullin Automotive Museum. Though largely unknown to contemporary consumers in the United States, French automaker Citroen is beloved in much of the world for its innovative design...
From the seller’s description: 1980 Chevrolet Corvette This car is a low mileage gem, showing just over 27,000 on its odometer. It is factory stock Tuxedo Black with red leather seats and new, matchi...
Photo by Rachel Knickmayer. On the heels of a bill intended to preserve Route 66 comes another piece of legislation that would secure National Historic Trail status for Route 66 and that would theore...
Chevrolet pickup in northeast Portland, Oregon. Photo by Tony Webster. Multiple Oregon state legislators said over the weekend that they would not allow a bill that would introduce a $1,000 impact ta...
2000 BMW R1100R instrument panel. Photo by author. In a perfect world, replacement parts for all our vehicles would remain available indefinitely. Ours, however, is not a perfect world. Last summer, ...
From the seller’s description: 1972 BMW 2002 looking for a new home. The car, affectionately known as Beanie within our family, has been owned by us since new, and mileage now stands at 50,280 miles....
The Rosa Parks bus at The Henry Ford, part of a collection of newly digitized videos by The Henry Ford. A spate of museum programs scheduled for this month aim to explore the confluences of African-A...
Moving the ’62 Corvette off the Skydome floor on February 9. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In the three years since the February 12, 2014, sinkhole collapse of the Skydome floor at the Na...
From the seller’s description: 1990 Mustang GT 5.0 Coupe 25th anniversary. Car is red with manual trans. Just less than 52,000 miles. Car has never seen snow and very little rain. Garage kept. Bottom...
Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. If the main purpose of the Lancia Stratos Zero concept prototype was to catch the attention of the people at Lancia it did not seem to happen at the 1970 edition of ...
1981 DMC De Lorean for sale. From the seller’s description: Stainless steel, dealer-painted Ferrari red w/Grey interior. Five-speed. Near mint condition. This car was brought to the United States in ...
Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning’s involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and ...
Hard to believe for some, but pickup trucks built in the ’70s are becoming collectible. One of the coolest – yet most overlooked – categories of the era, light-duty trucks, are some of the most affor...