How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
To support women in automotive fields, McPherson College senior Abigayle Morgan has started a scholarship named in honor of Denise McCluggage. I have proposed to create and grow a scholarship campaig...
Morgans under construction in Malvern Link. Photo courtesy Morgan Motor Company. For the past 110 years, boutique British sports car manufacturer Morgan has built cars by hand, embracing the traditio...
Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...
Images are courtesy of Honda. Dateline, Chicago Auto Show, February 1989: A few booths away from where Mazda was introducing the future of the classic British roadster sat Honda’s answer to the raref...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
The Packard plant in August 2018. Image courtesy Google Street View. The collapsed production-line bridge at the former Packard plant may turn out to be a trifling worry to the current owner of the p...
Image courtesy Google Street View. At one point, wrapped in a graphic depicting it sans crumbling brick or rusted steel trusses, the bridge crossing Detroit’s East Grand Boulevard served as the emble...
Dave Lockard, who we met at Hershey a few years back, will take home a pair of AACA National awards for his pair of Packard World War I trucks, as we learned this week on the WWI Centennial Commissio...
Wilcox Mill in Plymouth, Michigan. Photo by Dwight Burdette. Neither looks like they’d have much to do with automotive manufacturing or even the so-called arsenal of democracy, but a pair of building...
Bob Marley in 1973. Photo by Arthur Gorson, courtesy BobMarley.com. Some would argue that what an artist or musician does or says off the stage should have no bearing whatsoever on their legacy and t...
Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. These days, the automobile company that operates out of just one assembly plant is rare. A century ago, however, it was commonplace, and like many other automobile ...
Photo courtesy GM. Seventeen thousand new bricks, a whole lotta mortar, a new roof, and an ultramodern climate-controlled archives room helped General Motors secure this year’s Preservation award in ...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Though it has sat vacant for the last dozen or so years following a blockbuster $10 million sale, the former Ford factory on Pittsburgh’s Baum Boulevard, an anchor ...
Photo via online property listing. Delaware once served as a vital link in one of the coups that formed pre-bailout General Motors, but with the announcement late last month of the pending demolition...
Photos by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
The RE Olds Transportation Museum. Image via Google Street View. Lansing, Michigan, is best known outside the automotive world as being the state capital, a designation it received in 1847 on the fee...
An aerial view of the Buick City site. Image courtesy Google Maps. Buick City, a massive industrial site in Flint, Michigan, has been largely vacant since the last of its manufacturing plants were sh...
Images and video are courtesy of Jaguar Media Jaguar had a well-established reputation for building beautiful, powerful, and luxurious sedans (saloons, to the Brits) that dated back to the 1930s, wit...
Most stories of electric conversions on older cars stop right after the test and tune phase. Corbin Dunn, however, has kept us current (geddit?) on his Beetle EV conversion through the years. ( via )...
Images are courtesy of Aston Martin Media Aston Martin is no stranger to capitalizing on its incredible back-catalog, having recently sold 25 “ continuation ” alloy-bodied DB4 GT Lightweights, each o...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA. Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” th...
Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...
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...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...