Part of the Willow Run complex that will be transformed into the Yankee Air Museum. Still images from video below, unless otherwise noted. The Great Race has been to Ypsilanti, Michigan before, and o...
Photos courtesy FCA. Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant is no stranger to hardship, having witnessed the decline of the spark plug business, along with the rise, fall, rebirth an...
Photo by the author. Do the little things add up? That’s the question racers and spectators at various Bonneville Salt Flats racing events will get to ask starting later this year when the Save The S...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor The MGC was a controversial car from day one, even before it made its public debut at the Earls Court Motor Sho...
Jaguar C-type, XJR-9, and D-type on display in Coventry. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In 1957, Jaguar D-types finished first, second, third, fourth and sixth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but per...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Mazda Classic Automobil-Museum Frey in Augsburg, Germany. Photos courtesy Mazda Europe. The Frey family has been selling Mazda automobiles in the Augsburg, Germany, area since 1978, and it’s amassed ...
Photo courtesy Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show. Racer turned automotive entrepreneur Carroll Shelby died on May 10, 2012, but his name lives on with sports car and muscle car enthusiasts worldwid...
Corvettes under assembly in Bowling Green, 2016. Photo by Sanford Myers, Courtesy of General Motors. When GM’s Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant geared up for the switch from the C6 Corvette to t...
A single-cylinder 1908 Brush is among the oldest trucks to be displayed. Images courtesy the Gilmore Car Museum For all its popularity today, the pickup truck has not always been highly cherished in ...
Route 66 outside of Oatman, Arizona. Photo by Vicente Villamon. Citing the economic impact that Route 66 has had and continues to have on small to mid-size communities, Landmarks Illinois earlier thi...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Polarizing? Sure. Criticized? Of course. But the Petersen Automotive Museum’s undulating steel ribbon facade can now be described as award-winning after th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Holy rear camber, Batman! Remember the Manic GT ? You know, that rear-engined, Renault-powered, fiberglass bodi...
Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today’s models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, a...
Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in August 2014, prior to garage and pavilion construction. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. After two years of legal wrangling between the residents of Clark...