After a special unveiling and tumultuous overture by a military band, Pan American is shown to the public for the first time at 1952 International Motor Sports Show in New York City. Queen of the sho...
Photos by Josh Bryan, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. For all of its dream car aesthetics, the 1960 Plymouth XNR very nearly became a production reality. That it didn’t likely proved a huge disappointment to ...
We get it. A Miller-Meteor-bodied Cadillac ambulance/hearse has all sorts of intrinsic flare, fit into the mid-1980s fetishization of the Fifties, and in the long run made a great choice for the vehi...
Photos courtesy Scott Grundfor. The press release that Ford issued in late 1982 touting the advanced features of the Ghia Brezza concept car included all sorts of dimensional data but failed to menti...
Because Hemmings Classic Car focuses on American vehicles, we don’t get to feature the multitude of interesting and mysterious vehicles from other lands that cross our desks on a regular basis in the...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...
1955 Jaguar XK140 SE Michelotti coupe. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Though it came clad in an aluminum body crafted by Giovanni Michelotti, the expectations for the unique – but tired – Jaguar X...
Photos courtesy Lamborghini. Though it technically debuted a couple months prior, the Lamborghini Marzal – the concept car that would eventually spur European coachbuilders to one-up each other with ...
Photos courtesy Osenat, except where noted. The prospect of an inexpensive mid-engine road-car chassis excited many a designer when Porsche announced the 914; the car’s flat and angular design, an in...
Reutter seat production for Porsche, 1961. All images courtesy Recaro. The history of Recaro seats starts in 1963 in the German automotive “capital” Stuttgart in very close range to the iconic brands...
St. Tropez pickup converted 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car was in the previous owners family since 1982 and they bought it from a fa...
We’ve already taken a brief look at Ionia Manufacturing, the station wagon body supplier based in Ionia, Michigan, for the Mitchell Car Museum liquidation, but this video from Vantage Point Visual pr...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for...
French automaker Delahaye introduced its 135 model in 1935, and – war years excluded – variations remained in production until 1954. Delahaye 135s were frequently rebodied by French coachbuilders, bu...
All images courtesy the author. Some weeks ago, I spent a lovely Saturday morning while visiting the little Bonfanti-Vimar Car Museum set in Bassano Del Grappa, a charming town placed at the feet of ...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Images courtesy of FCA Heritage. It was at Paris’ world-famous classic-car show, the 43rd edition of Rétromobile, that FCA Heritage announced its exciting new program to sell a select number of resto...
Photography by David LaChance. In this business, there are countless times we are on the receiving end of a conversation that starts with “It’s one of only…” and usually ends in a number likely in th...
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...
Photos by Joe Wiecha, courtesy Artcurial. They chased him off once, but Pinin Farina had spent the last several months working hard on an appropriately over-the-top response to the decision by the or...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Photos courtesy VeA. France’s capital city isn’t known for being particularly friendly to vintage automobiles—with a controversial old-car ban making news in recent years —but Parisians certainly app...
Photo by JGBMLG. In the years after Fisher Body removed all Fleetwood body production from that company’s original home in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, to Detroit, residents of the small town reportedly ...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...