1963 Darlington 500. Joe Weatherly (#8) in his Mercury leads Darel Dierenger (#26) in his Mercury. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsports History. A livestreamed talk on NASCAR history at Watkins Glen will ...
The annual SEMA show attracts vendors from around the world, but as Automotive News reports, not all of them respect the intellectual property of others. In a series of raids prompted by an emergency...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. Those hoping to visit the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, have a very narrow window to do so. Late Thursday, ...
Tom Cotter’s Cunningham C-3 coupe, featued in the upcoming exhibit, at the 2016 Grand Ascent hillclimb. Photo courtesy of Tom Cotter. Say the word “hybrid” in conversation, and most will envision a m...
Text and photos by Matteo Giacon. Earlier this month, the Padua Fair hosted Auto E Moto D’Epoca, which as the time goes by, has become the most important indoor event for everything related to classi...
A gathering of Rolling Bones creations at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2011. Photo by Peter Vincent. Hot rodding was born as a pure pursuit of speed, but as factory efforts caught up to and finally o...
John Fitch racing an MG-TD at Linden, New Jersey, in 1950. Photo courtesy IMRRC. Folks in the world of cars knew, admired and respected the late John Fitch. He was a racer, a patriot, a fighter pilot...
Screen grabs from ClassicsAndExotics.com. From homes, to boats, to garage space, the “sharing economy” is opening opportunities for renters and rentees in a variety of markets. Add classic and exotic...
Photos by Bruno Costers. Two years after shifting its focus to attract younger visitors, the world’s largest Ford museum – the Den Hartogh in the Netherlands – has failed to attract a new executive d...
Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Don Fezell didn’t build his collection for the fame of it. He didn’t go hog the spotlight at televised collector car auctions. He didn’t build a personal museum for the...
From Porsche to Lotus to Chevrolet, the exhibit promises something for fans of all sports cars. Photo by John Lacko, courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Blame it on a combination of zeitgeist and disposable...
Peter Brock chats about the cars that made him famous at the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Photo by the author. The man who had a hand in developing both the Corvette and the Mustang ...
Volkswagen operates two museums in its home town of Wolfsburg, Germany: The ZeitHaus and the Stiftung. The ZeitHaus stands out as the most visited automotive museum in the world, but the Stiftung is ...
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...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...
Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America Museum. Held annually during Meet Week in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the AACA Museum’s “Night at the Museum” gives visitors a chance to s...
Photo courtesy New England Auto Museum. Pinning down a birth date for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team isn’t exactly straightforward. Could have taken place in 1948, 1958, or any number of...
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
Restoring his 1957 Pontiac Safari for the road probably would have gotten it more use at cruise-ins and other old car gatherings, but Alan Freed had it restored as it was built – as a Hy-Rail, intend...
CSX2000 crosses the auction stage in Monterey. Photo by Jeff Koch. On August 19, CSX2000, the prototype Shelby Cobra, crossed the auction stage at the RM Sotheby’s sale in Monterey, California. When ...
Photos by the author. The Beetle GSR that Volkswagen launched during the 2013 edition of the Chicago Auto Show wasn’t the first of its kind. The GSR nameplate was introduced in late 1972 on a limited...
“Jungle Jim” Chevrolet Monza funny car. Photo courtesy NHRA. While the Automobile Driving Museum has historically focused on American cars and the on-road driving experience essential to those cars, ...
Photos courtesy GM Heritage Center. We always get amped when collections display historic race cars, even if they’re necessarily re-creations. That’s frequently the case because too many early race c...
Photos by Casey Maxon, Historic Vehicle Association. As primed as most police cars are for lengthy sustained service, with special heavy-duty options and equipment installed at the factory, they stil...