For decades, Volkswagen’s van-based camper was the affordable RV of choice for those with a passion for camping and long-distance road trips. Rising prices and declining sales halted U.S. imports of ...
1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. For those who would say the market for muscle cars is waning, consider this: Nine of t...
Billy Durant (l) and Dallas Dort. Photos courtesy Lawrence L. Gustin. If you’re a longtime reader of the Hemmings titles, Lawrence L. Gustin should be a familiar name. A career reporter and editor of...
Photos courtesy Leon Dixon. As many of you who’ve hung around these parts for some time may know, frequent commenter and occasional contributor Leon Dixon is perhaps one of the most knowledgeable guy...
We spotted an interesting item that was recently sold on an online auction site, a Willys-Knight Moving Piston Sleeve Cutaway Demonstrator model. The model has a knob on the back of the unit for rota...
What an interesting life this 1957 Meskowski-Foyt-McKee Champ Car for sale on Hemmings.com has led so far: Raced by A.J. Foyt, once owned by Tony Lapine, rebuilt by Porsche, and later breathed on by ...
Photos courtesy National Packard Museum. Since 2001, the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, has hosted an annual antique motorcycle exhibit, many of which have drawn top honors from the Antique...
The Savoy Camera from the 1961 Mercury-Comet Prize-O-Rama contest; image by the author Pop quiz: What’s the fastest means to get foot traffic into a dealership? A mass mailing claiming that the count...
As improbable as a rust-free original-body Sixties GM truck of any sort from any part of the world is, here we see a 1965 Chevrolet Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com that meets just those criteria. N...
Santa Pod Raceway over in England is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and released a snazzy little promo video, but we thought it’d be more appropriate to take a look at this home video fro...
First offered by Lincoln Mercury dealers in 1962, the Mercury Comet had actually been designed as the entry-level Edsel. Similar in concept to the Ford Falcon, the Mercury Comet was a bit more upscal...
Most of the yearbook carspotting photos posted to Annualmobiles come from dealerships, but here we see The Pit Stop, a speed shop in Pasadena, Texas, with all sorts of goodies to offer. * What is a t...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In part one, I looked at the reasons I decided to hunt down a rather mundane car from the Malaise Era, a ’74 Buick Apollo coupe that had features my first car, also a ’...
Ronan Glon’s Ran When Parked has plenty more European carspotting gold in addition to yesterday’s two scenes from southeastern France, including these three from the touristy coastal Dutch town Schev...
Car-based pickups may be absent from new vehicle showrooms, but in these days of plus-size, $50,000-and-up new pickup trucks they make more sense than ever. This base-model 1972 Ford Ranchero 500, fo...
Photos courtesy Artcurial. To build a magnificent, imposing and graceful automobile takes time. Time, however, has a way of diluting many of the strongest dreams, so building such a car also requires...
Rico Abreu. Photo courtesy Jim Fluharty, NASCAR Illustrated Perhaps you heard about the scuffle between an inebriated sheriff’s deputy and Tony Stewart at last weekend’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl National...
The 1955 Meteor Rideau is a re-trimmed 1955 Ford sold as a less-expensive option at Canadian Mercury dealers. Images courtesy OldCarBrochures.com European and Asian cars have their devotees, Australi...
Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...
Roadmaster Estate station wagons from the 1990s have a cultish following with enthusiasts, but the sedans seem to be stuck in used-car limbo these days. That’s a good thing if you have an appetite fo...
Seinfeld Collection Porsches. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a thing for automobiles, most notably those from Porsche. His c...
Vintage sports cars enter the Andretti Hairpin at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro. It’s no secret that the relationship between Monterey County and the Sports Car Racing Associa...
A Ford GT40 Mk I battles a Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos by author. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve never discussed my collection of historically significant raci...
Three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Mauri Rose stands alongside Firebird I prior to his test drive on a deserted road in Arizona. Could these be the wheels that inspired Pontiac’s eight-lug wh...
Returning to Los Angeles for today’s carspotting exercise, just because we can use all the blue skies and colorful cars we can get here in the middle of winter. As opposed to yesterday’s somewhat ano...