Images courtesy Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Ahead of a retrospective show in 2015, Robert Williams told the Los Angeles Times that he’s no fan of “lowbrow” or the stuffier “pop surrealism” t...
Nearly 55 years ago, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a complaint against Studebaker for pricefixing oil additives through its subsidiary, STP. As Automotive News reported, the de...
Photos courtesy the author. We who choose to admire art, and perhaps purchase ones that “speak” to us in some way, rarely have a clue about the tedious journey the piece took to get to our eyeballs a...
Neo Scale’s 1957 Imperial Crown four-door Southampton. Photography by author. Neo Scale Models may be a new name to the 1/64-scale world, but the Dutch-based company has been making waves with their ...
Complementary – and inexpensive – automobilia is everywhere, and oftentimes given to you without you realizing that it’s a potential collectible. The most meaningful pieces of automobilia in my colle...
Issigonis’s Mini certainly contributed to the development of front-wheel drive, but the true father of today’s transverse-engine front-wheel-drive layout, as Neil Briscoe at Influx argues, is Dante G...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera. Photos by author. I always had a halting relationship with photography. I inherited my first camera, a Kodak that took 126 film cartridges and was manufactured circa lat...
Old favorites from movies and TV shows with an antique twist feature in this year’s Auto Art Advent. Images courtesy Stefan Marjoram Regular readers of the Hemmings Daily will no doubt be familiar wi...
Santa brought the writer a 1923 Ford touring car body, which has been dubbed “Tilly,” thanks to the original plan to use a pair of Tillotson down-draft carburetors on the engine. The Tillotsons are n...
The Gentleman Racer this week pulled together a bunch of photos telling the story of an American road trip circa 1954 from the collection of road tripper Jack Canary. * An Indonesian sculptor, Ichwan...
Most of us remember getting prizes in Cracker Jacks or our cereal boxes–ignoring the tooth-rotting junk above and digging to the bottom of the box for whatever trinket was awaiting liberation beneath...
Photo by author. Longtime readers of the Hemmings Daily will recall me mentioning that my parents owned a 1965 GTO when I was very young. It was Burgundy with a black interior, the 360-hp Tri-Power e...
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...
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...
The late day sun illuminates the grille and the concours-quality detailed front suspension of this 1969 Buick GS 400, but the importance of this photo for this article is how the side has reflected t...
Kuhni’s artwork for the original Hot Wheels line. Photo from author’s collection. You may not know Otto Kuhni’s name … but if you were a kid in the late ’60s, you knew his work. He started working fo...
Bernie Ecclestone (L) with Sir Stirling Moss at Silverstone in 2010. Photo courtesy Silverstone Circuit. Since 1999, the sculptures of British artist Gerry Judah have welcomed visitors to the Goodwoo...
Photos by author. My start in this business happened to coincide with the release of the Fourth-Gen Firebirds and Camaros. During those early days, one of my coworkers gave me this 1993 Camaro Z28 ho...
1970 Oldsmobile Toronado GT. Photography by author. Normally when I photograph a feature car, I attempt to completely clear the foreground and background of anything that could be a considered a dist...
The Henry Ford’s trove of Dave Friedman photos has revealed many gems in the past, so one would expect the most recent digitized batch of Friedman photos – from the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside ...
Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...
Corvette rendering by Sparky Bohnstedt, circa 1954. Images courtesy Robert Edwards unless noted otherwise. Of course every car designer longs to tackle something like the Corvette: a prestige car, sl...
As he has for the last several years, artist Stefan Marjoram has taken on an auto advent calendar project, with a new piece of art each day until Christmas. * New Fiesta coming, so Adrian Flux’s Infl...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...