The Turnpike Cruising Package was only available on the Cutlass Supreme models for 1967. Artwork courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. The advent of the Turnpike Cruising Package m...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As in Europe, vehicles in postwar England were typically small and efficient, sized for that country’s busy city streets and narrow rura...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/ Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras,...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor The smaller Swedish automaker was in a pretty good place in 1985, poised to sell a then-record 39,068 units in the ...
We were south of Chicago on I-80, in triple-digit temperatures and bumper-to-bumper traffic, when my fuel-injected 1977 Volkswagen Scirocco sputtered, coughed, and then died in the center lane. The w...
Photo by Scott Crawford. Almost a decade ago, we started up the Hemmings Nation pool on Flickr for our readers to share their favorite car photos, and sometime in recent weeks we had our 100,000th im...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News In an odd bit of marketing, Jaguar Cars North America introduced the XJ-S in 1976 as the “ S-type,” which was an about-face from the way...
What’s this, a warm, romantic breeze from the other side of the Iron Curtain? Yes, indeed. Skoda’s sporty Felicia convertible was all about having fun and looking good. It was sold not only in its na...
The stylish, information-heavy cover made me want to learn more. Photos by author. If you are anything like me, you get nostalgic each time you see references to 1950s (or 1960s) family vacations or ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Gregory S. Hahn Porsche’s American lineup looked largely the same for 1987 as it did in previous years, since the all-new, ...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Cadillac embraced the future in 1992 when it debuted the Northstar V-8. This all-aluminum engine was as sophisticated as any offered by a premium...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Gregory S. Hahn While they’re nearly Toyota-ubiquitous today, Mercedes-Benz cars were still a rare and special sight on Ame...
1974 Pontiac Grand Prix. Brochure and advertising images from author’s collection. If you recoil at the sight of landau tops, opera windows, barrier-busting bumper designs, pillow-top crushed velour ...
Mercury’s 1956 XM Turnpike Cruiser concept. Images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. In April of 1954, John Najjar, then head of Lincoln’s pre-production studios, sketched a series of five futuris...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author. It’s impossible to understate the importance of the compact, front wheel-drive K cars to the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1980s, as the aut...
1976 Plymouth Arrow brochure, courtesy of PaintRef.com . Cursed with a passion for automobiles from birth, the countdown to my first car began years before I earned a driver’s license. Used cars came...
Images from the author’s brochure collection. Only two years after its most recent facelift, the mid-year 1989/ 1990 Cougar got an even smoother, more aerodynamic design. This complemented the car’s ...
No, this 1970 ad is not included in the Vehicle Information Kits. It’s just used to provide a compelling lead photo, since the kits were scanned in black and white. It’s very rare that anything assoc...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
Images courtesy AACA Library. Libraries aren’t exactly arcades, but video games did provide an introduction to cool cars for many a younger automotive enthusiast, so the AACA Library recently added a...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As we posited in “ Earthbound Spaceship,” our Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car retrospective of the Citroen DS, this front wheel-drive Frenc...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
In the early 1980s, this was the first book that I read to learn about how cars work and how to service them. Published by Goodheart-Willcox Co. of Chicago, this 1970 edition belonged to my father wh...
1954 De Soto Coronado. Brochure and ad scans from author’s collection. During the boom years of the immediate postwar era, auto manufacturers were doing their best to create ads that touted their new...
Photos courtesy Checker Cab Club. Though it’s only been around for a little more than a year, the Checker Cab Club recently scored a couple troves of rather significant documentation on the Kalamazoo...