Carl Schneider and Jack Juratovic heading to the Mt. Washington summit in their 1955 Buick. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, unless otherwise noted. The Mount Washington Auto Road, which climbs to the summi...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River lapped up to the edges of the old Ford plant outside of New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina and filled it with two f...
1958 Plymouth convertible. Still image from Internet Archive video below. In these 1958 Sid Davis productions, Driving Tips Series One and Two, many aspects of driver safety and a few regarding good ...
From the seller’s description: 1937 Chrysler Imperial Touring Sedan (C-15). Winner of the 2014 Antique Auto Club of America annual Thomas McKean Touring Trophy (over 60,000 members and 350,000 cars a...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. Time’s running out to preserve Route 66, the National Trust for Historic Preservation warned. The nonprofit, which has already endorsed the proposal to designate the Mother Road...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. For a full year, I’ve hit the sort of snag that can bedevil any restoration project. Usually these delays and frustrations occur at someone else’s shop during an interm...
Four-speed 1963 Mercury Colony Park for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1963 Colony Park wagon was and is reported to be one of the 12 wagons donated by Mercury to the NHRA ...
Photos via Dick McClurg. Charles Thomas had a gift for envisioning automobile trends decades before they happened. He also had a penchant for returning to his native Western New York to build out his...
Competitors have exactly 60 minutes from arrival to eat lunch and depart, making for scenes like this one as the no. 46 Plymouth Bluesmobile of Dennis O’Connell and Stephen Hebert and the no. 17 Pack...
Photos courtesy Scott Grundfor. The press release that Ford issued in late 1982 touting the advanced features of the Ghia Brezza concept car included all sorts of dimensional data but failed to menti...
Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” got my blood boiling and ready to drag race someone. Photo courtesy Jalopy Journal. “Great Googamooga, Shoogamooga… Hey there, all you Mommy-Os and Daddy-Os, welcome aboard...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Built in 1929. Restored once (incorrectly) in the Seventies. Has seen some weather-related damage since. Needs a second restoration. While that descripti...
Cadillac-powered 1941 Lincoln Zephyr business coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: There were 1341 Three Window Business Coupes manufactured in 1941 and only 77 were ordered...
Testbed recreation 1929 Packard 626 speedster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a faithful recreation of the Packard Motor Car Company’s factory rolling engineering tes...
Restored 1953 Kom-Pak trailer and boat for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: All fiberglass, restored back to original condition. It has original icebox & original water can. This ...
1917 Detroit Electric Model 68 B. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. The Revs Institute in Naples, Florida, houses a most impressive collection of automobiles, ranging from an 1896 Panhard & Levasso...
Photo courtesy Doug Partington. Of all the reasons one might have for building a race car – besides, you know, to go fast and race – Australians Geoff and Roy Wikner perhaps had the most oblique: The...
From the seller’s description: This is probably the best example of a 1960 Buick Invicta convertible around. It features the famous 401 nailhead engine with 325-hp and Buick’s Twin Turbine automatic ...