So, you’ve crashed your brand-new Austin-Healey. Ugh. Insurance? Shrug. How about, instead, you – and the local panelbeaters – look at it as an opportunity to improve on the work of Donald Healey and...
The facility closure and event cancellation/postponement announcements have slowed down in recent days, but we’re glad to see news like this: Covercraft is using at least some of its facilities to pr...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. Fifties concept cars aren’t the easiest things to restore. The handbuilt one-off glimpses of automotive futures past don’t exactly enjoy huge aftermarket support. But tha...
Within the 306 pages of this 9.5 x 12.5-inch hardcover book exists the most authoritative story ever told about how American automobiles were designed and styled and the men responsible for it all. I...
General Motors in the 1950s was on top of the world. It sold almost half the cars delivered in the U.S. during that decade. It offered models for nearly every economic stratum, and at the top of that...
Sergio Pininfarina. Images courtesy of Pininfarina except where noted. Pininfarina is, perhaps, the best known of the dozens of Italian carrozzerie that sprung up near Turin in the first decades of t...
Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...
1926 Rolls-Royce 20 HP Shooting Brake for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: An extremely rare 1926 Rolls-Royce Shooting Brake. According to Rolls-Royce Foundation records (which ar...
Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. Bertone was once one of the greatest Italian design and coachbuilding houses. Its credits include styling icons such as the Lancia Str...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. It may come as a surprise today, but Austin of England was one of the largest importers of cars to America in the years following World...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
With every new Ghostbusters film, it seems we’re introduced to yet another incarnation of the Ecto-1, perhaps the world’s most famous Cadillac-based hearse. Except the latest version, as seen in the ...
Curtiss-bodied 1927 Rolls-Royce for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Ordered by the Rockafellar family and delivered to New York without Body. Bought by Family friend Alan Beamis ...
Image courtesy Federation Internationale Vehicules Anciens. With attendance on the decline and a stable of noteworthy but ancient vehicles in a royal/imperial palatial setting, France’s Musée Nationa...
All photos by Drew Phillips Every year at the Los Angeles Auto Show, local mega dealer Galpin Autos takes over a small space between the two main exhibit halls of the LA Convention Center and turns i...
Photos and images via Wray Schelin. Metalshaper Wray Schelin says he can teach an absolute beginner in metalshaping how to form a car fender in just a week, and he’s decided to back that claim up by ...
Images are courtesy of Mitsubishi Motors Media Services As an automaker, Mitsubishi has a relatively short history in the United States, but this diversified company has been active for nearly 150 ye...
Filca-bodied 1970 Citroen HY for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: One of several companies in France that was involved in converting the Citroën HY was Filca France, a coach build...
While the ModenArt exhibit that featured the works of Giancarlo Guerra, Afro Gibellini and Oriello Leonardi is now over, we did receive plenty of photos from the organizers of the exhibit and its ope...
Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
Photos courtesy ModenArt. As far back as 1951, cars have been considered legitimate, museum-ready works of art. Since that time, art museums and gallery exhibits have focused almost entirely on the d...
Photo via Colani.org. If Syd Mead were as consumed by the pursuit of aerodynamic perfection as Alex Tremulis and stripped of any and all regard for design precedent, the result would come relatively ...
Period photos likely via Michelin, Biel Technicum. Technical solutions often appear that only make sense in certain windows of time. Take, for instance, the fax machine, relevant until suddenly every...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers, except where noted. In the mid- to late 1940s, starry-eyed inventors launched cars of tomorrow seemingly every other week, promising increased safety, better fu...
Photos courtesy Blackhawk Collection. It’s easy to credit (or blame, depending on your tastes) Virgil Exner for designing just about every production and concept car Chrysler built in the Fifties, bu...