Willoughby-bodied 1937 Lincoln Custom for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For the past 20 years I have been the owner of my Grandfather’s 1937 Willoughby Lincoln 7 Passenger Tour...
Documented five-speed 1975 Fiat 130 Pininfarina coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I am selling this car on behalf of my father, a European-car enthusiast based in Connect...
Single-family 1949 Dodge B1B for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: purchased new by my Dad on Jan. 26, 1949. Serial number (82084794) indicates a chassis built in Detroit in 1948. ...
Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Duesenberg pretty much undisputedly sits atop the heap as the most luxurious, most exclusive, and most storied American carmaker to have existed, all the more remarkable ...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. The stars all appeared to align for Duesenberg’s return in the mid-Sixties: a Duesenberg family member at the helm, an Exner-designed and Ghia-built prototype, confirmed or...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
F40 and Ferrari’s factory — take one. All photos by the author. Once in a decade, there is a moment of the year when it is possible to see a literal herd of prancing horses gathering together to cele...
Photos by Greg Keysar, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Ironically, while Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s designs emphasized streamlining and speed, the 14-passenger bus he drew up for White to sell to tour operators ...
The very interesting Savio landaulet in a full color pic After taking a look at a wide sample of the various Fiat 1400s and 1900s crafted by some of the most revered names in the Italian carrozzerie’...
A nice ’51 1400 convertible done by Stabilimenti Farina Following a then all-important tradition, the 1400 was the starting point for a wide array of specially built cars, cars made by the so-called ...
Stevens-modified Continental. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Typically, it’s a fool’s errand to compare two or more designers, if not due to the subjectivity of aesthetics, then certainly due t...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The original taillamps? Too Seventies. The original marble interior pieces? Didn’t fit with the new paint scheme. But the original Reno Bell rotary dial in-car telepho...
The Gentleman Racer this week took a look at all the various re-bodied Cobras, either by Ford itself or by coachbuilders such as Ghia. * Will cars soon be relegated to museum curiosities, or will the...
An elegant place for an elegant car, the 1951 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa DEste. It’s mid May, it’s warm again, after long months of unusually dreadful weather for Italy, and Brescia was again ready ...
Photo courtesy Early Ford V-8 Museum. The only stainless steel 1936 Ford known to exist in private hands will no longer enjoy such status after collector Joe Floyd announced he’s donating it – along ...
Coachbuilder Hans Leo Senden’s take on the Porsche 911 caught the eye of the crew from Ferdinand at the recent Techno Classica Essen. The phrase “Fred-in-a-shed” caught our eye. * The Crosleykook spe...
We had expected to see a lot more automotive tributes to Chuck Berry following his death last weekend; after all, cars were an integral part to the mixture of influences he used to conjure up rock an...
Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today’s models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe...
1959 Cadillac Broadmoor Skyview. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Opened by founder Spencer Penrose in 1918, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was intended to be one of the finest luxury hotels...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
Photos courtesy Hollywood Wheels. History has a way of blurring details, particularly when exact records are lacking. Take the Ghia-bodied Chrysler Special models of the early to mid-1950s by way of ...
A ’57 Alfa Romeo 1900 Super seen at the Padua’s show in the spectacular oh-so-’56 Pontiac two toning Text and photos by Matteo Giacon, except where noted. Fins And Two Tones : When Imitation Becomes ...
The baby Bel air by Fiat, complete with nice two toning, the ’54 1900 A Granluce Text and photos by Matteo Giacon, except where noted. Since the early days of the 20th century, idea-sharing between t...