We are forever wondering how to get kids involved in the old-car hobby. The handwringing among the car enthusiast community is endless. How do we get kids involved? Who will love my favorite car when...
Renderings courtesy Sloan Museum of Discovery. Since establishing its Buick gallery 20 years ago, the Sloan*Longway Museum in Flint, Michigan, has kept the collection on its campus but in a separate ...
Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Here’s a topic we could probably write reams about, if we only could figure out terminology. You see, the Germans have for many years now used a term, “Youngtimer,” to...
Grandson Jake, 19, owns three classics, including this 1975 Plymouth Scamp. He’s way ahead of where I was at his age…and his cars are more interesting, too. Photos by the author except where noted. P...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
Photo courtesy Heritage Skills Academy. Less than a year after its debut, the U.K. Heritage Skills Academy — the country’s only accredited institution teaching auto restoration skills — has secured g...
More than two years after two of the five WyoTech campuses closed without warning, the non-profit running the remaining three has confirmed it will shutter them as well, in a process that an independ...
Photo by the author. So, my column in the December 2017 issue of Hemmings Motor News generated quite the response over how to attract more young people into the old car hobby. All of the responses we...
In a recent interview with FIVA, rally legend Walter Rohrl argued for better support of classic cars from the manufacturers. * The image above became widespread throughout car forums not long ago whe...
Photos courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. It’s much more complete than the bitsa that formed the basis of the first Crosley club youth project, but there’s still plenty of work to be done on the 1950 ...
Photo courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. Not all youth project cars like the one sponsored by the Crosley Automobile Club end in success, which was why the members of the club, upon the completion of ...
Photos by the author. Some of the most interesting cars that Sweden has to offer are hiding in small, rural towns, not in museums. That’s because 15-year-olds are allowed to drive virtually any type ...
Photo courtesy Academy of Art University. To teach old car appreciation to the next generation, basically. We’ve previously mentioned the fact that the San Francisco-based Academy of Art University r...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. By his best reckoning, 17-year-old Daniel Gamboa has only driven a stick-shift car about 8 or 9 times in his life. But he shows no reticence in inching closer t...