Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News The United States may still have been suffering the effects of the Great Depression in 1935, but that challenging economic setting only ...
Image via Google Street View. Kristi Schwartzly still recalls the morning she came to work at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum to find that a roof leak had flooded the executive director’s office....
All photos by the author. In Mexico, the people consider the venerable Beetle a Mexican car. Oh, sure, they know it’s a German car. They get that. But the VW Type 1 sedan, or Vocho, as its affectiona...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...
Brochure images from the collection of Terry Shea. It’s little remembered today, but the original Comet — sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships as a standalone model for two model years — was inte...
Images via Google Street View. While the Antique Automobile Club of America’s current digs have an undeniably exceptional provenance as a former dormitory for the Milton Hershey School, they lack in ...
School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...
Floorplan for the Toyota Experience Center, opening in Plano, Texas. Photos courtesy Toyota Motor North America. When Toyota announced its U.S. headquarters would be moving from Torrance, California,...
AMC’s Plymouth Road headquarters in July 2009 (left) and October 2016 (right). Images courtesy Google Street View. Despite earlier discussions entertaining the possibility of demolishing the Detroit ...
Rendering courtesy AACA Museum. Back in April, our friends at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, announced that they had recently reached their fundraising goals to construct a new visitor ent...
Images courtesy VanderbiltCupRaces.com. For 37 years the quonset huts that made up the Long Island Automotive Museum, bereft of their four-wheeled inhabitants, steadily deteriorated into rusted, graf...
Images courtesy of Bonhams and the Hemmings archives Saab fans from around the world have traveled to the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, Sweden, to see the “UrSaab,” or the original Saab car prototy...
Route 66 bridge in Winona, Arizona. Photo by Randy Heinitz. Earlier this summer the town of Galena, Kansas, celebrated the restoration of the Front Street Bridge, a span that once carried Route 66 ov...
Photo by Rijel. Despite a warning from a leading Bonneville scientist that it might not work, the land-speed racers behind Save the Salt have opened talks with a local mining company to return as muc...
The Mormon Meteor Duesenberg. Photos by David LaChance. Next month, an event commemorating the racing successes of some of America’s most storied carmakers will feature an appearance by a landmark Du...
Carhenge, by Chris M. Morris. The U.S. is currently in the grip of eclipse mania, as the first visible solar eclipse in nearly a century will cut a swath from Oregon to South Carolina on Monday, Augu...
Buick City today. Photo courtesy Google Maps. From the air, the stark gray remains of Buick City, a sprawling Flint, Michigan, plot roughly bordered by East Pierson Street, East Wood Street, Industri...
Singer, songwriter, actor, and television host Glen Campbell died on August 8 after a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s disease. One of Campbell’s roles that few remember is Datsun pitchman; as Japa...
Still image from video below. Country Classic Cars, a Hemmings Pro dealer located just off Route 66 in Staunton, Illinois, has long been known for its large inventory of collectible cars. With five-p...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News ; courtesy of Bruce Zahor BMW’s M3 is a car that’s spoken of in reverential tones, and if the topic of the ür-M3 arises — that being the...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
Photo courtesy Historic England. The Brooklands race track will, in all likelihood, never again host a competitive race. The ravages of time and the encroachments of development have ensured that fat...
Sports cars mix it up at Laguna Seca during the 2013 Historics. Photo by author. On January 31, 2017, the Board of Supervisors in Monterey County, California, approved a deal that gave the Sports Car...
The Coatesville Invitational Vintage Grand Prix brings classic cars in (rapid) motion to the historic downtown of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Images courtesy Ryan P. McWilliams/Hi-Test Photography. “L...
AMG’s headquarters in Affalterbach, Germany. Photos courtesy of Daimler AG. In 1967, former Mercedes-Benz engineers Hans-Werner Aufrect and Erhard Melcher set up shop in an old mill in Burgstall an d...