While the AACA Library’s working to digitize its existing film collection, as we learned this past week, it already has quite a few neat videos on its YouTube page, including the one above of the 195...
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul...
August 2, 2015, offloading the car from the transporter. Photos courtesy Don Homuth. Editor’s note: Last August, we brought you the story of Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Da...
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. I...
Let’s stay in St. Petersburg and in 1958 and with ElectroSpark’s found photos for today’s carspotting exercise, starting with the above image looking east on Central Avenue. Might it be December in t...
In its day, this six-cylinder 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com was the equivalent of a Toyota Camry: produced in huge quantities for mass consumption, generic a...
Photo courtesy FCA. Under existing law, the Dodge Viper above – along with any car manufactured after 1988 – has a snowball’s chance of making its way to Australia and remaining there, but a set of r...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The introduction of the Monte Carlo was perfectly timed with the advent of what author Tom Wolfe termed the “Me Decade.” So-called “...
It’s been a few years, but we did mention Webb’s City in St. Petersburg once before, and today we’re going to carspot the carspotter, perched above the cars in the Webb’s City parking lot in search o...
In 1929, the race to make a feasible, mass produced front-wheel-drive car had been won by the Cord L-29 as it beat out the Ruxton. Front-wheel-drive vehicles had proven successful in the racing indus...
Thanks to Jim and Chester’s Garage, we’ve got a pair of carspotting photos showing downtown Charleston, West Virginny, and its bustling Capitol Street. We’ve even got a date – 1973 – which gives us a...
The story of the little aluminum V-8 that GM sidelined and Rover wisely snapped up is fascinating and you can read all about it here, in the June 2006 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Or you could learn...
Still from AACA Library film. With hundreds of deteriorating old films in its collection, the folks at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s library started to investigate how to digitize and pres...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. By his best reckoning, 17-year-old Daniel Gamboa has only driven a stick-shift car about 8 or 9 times in his life. But he shows no reticence in inching closer t...
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. Photo courtesy GM Media archives. It’s February, and it’s minus 2-degrees outside with twice-frozen crunchy snow blanketing everything. My ears are ringing, my head is conges...
Our friends across the pond have a wonderful description of disorder, calling it “the dog’s breakfast.” While most $5,000 Challenge installments have a common theme, this one does not. There are spor...
Bathurst has to be one of the greatest races that Americans don’t watch. Fortunately, there’s YouTube, where we can get the highlights of many great Bathurst races from years past, including this 25-...
Those cars from the Baillon barn find collection that went through Artcurial last year were impressive enough in their deteriorated state, but seeing what’s going into the restoration of at least one...
While we’d seen this photo floating around the Tumblrverse, it seems to have first appeared on The Old Motor, where David Greenlees noted that it’s one of a series of John F. Bromley photos of the ci...
Vintage wagons, once written off by enthusiasts and collectors alike, are back in a big way. Maybe it’s their do-everything practicality, or their still-affordable pricing, but wagons like this three...
Photos by Mark McCourt Collector: A person who accumulates a number of similar or related objects, particularly for a hobby or recreation. Curator: A person who manages, administers, or organizes a c...
Over on Facebook, Graham Graham copied us on this neat street scene from Orange, New South Wales, which he dated to either April or May of 1974. The street sign in the foreground pointed us to the cu...
Photo by Lars Plougmann. With the release of long-awaited ethanol-blending target numbers late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency managed to draw ire from both renewable fuels supporters ...
The AACA’s Michael J. Jones (L) with Coker Tire’s Wade Kawasaki. Images courtesy Coker Tire. On Saturday, February 13, the Antique Automobile Club of America held its 80th annual national awards banq...