Here’s what you need to know about this 1966 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport, for sale on Hemmings.com: It’s got a built 427 V-8 that dyno-tested at 434 horsepower, it gets power to the ground via a 12-...
1951 Vincent White Shadow, in Chinese Red. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Pre-auction estimates turned out to be a tad low for the top-selling lot at Bonhams’s Las Vegas motorcycle sale, held on January...
Yet another film that could be summed up with “don’t drive like a jerk.” But this one introduces the “screw jay,” which proves that jaywalkers can be jerks, too. All photos are frame grabs from video...
Print ad courtesy Production Cars.com. Formerly part of Auto Union with DKW, Horch and Wanderer, Audi didn’t (re)exist as a brand until 1969. The marque made its U.S. debut for the 1970 model year, w...
Thanks to Hollywood, pretty much everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there’s some iconic landmark in view. But even without all those landmarks, the wide avenues full of towering palms and the blue s...
Chances are, if it’s an assembly line car, it was built to a certain price point, which of course means compromises. One side-benefit of restoring a car, however, is the ability to un-compromise. Tak...
1960 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL and 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. What prompts attraction? This question has puzzled scientists and singles alike sinc...
Text by Jeff Koch; photography by Jeff Koch and Thomas A. DeMauro. At BMW, evolution is a way of life. Three decades separate the first 2002s and the last of the still-ubiquitous E30-generation 3-ser...
While the term “restomod” generally conjures up images of Camaros and Mustangs infused with modern crate engines, it can be applied to automobiles of foreign origin, too. Take this 1974 Alfa Romeo GT...
Text by Mike Bumbeck, photos by Jim Donnelly. Comparing a Lincoln to a Cadillac might seem like the sensible association to make, given their respective reputations for elegance. However, the threat ...
Text by Mike McNessor. Photos by Jeff Koch, restoration photos courtesy Evan Gavrilles. Some kids are drawn to sports. Others, fashion or music. For Evan Gavrilles and the rest of us, it was–is–muscl...
The (presumably abandoned) Litchfield Garage in Rio, Illinois. Photo by Pete Zarria. Have you ever run a successful auto repair business? Are you good with people? Do you think you have what it takes...
Introduced in 1957, the Lotus Seven was essentially a motorcycle on four wheels, perhaps the best illustration of Colin Chapman’s philosophy of “adding lightness.” Though production ended in 1972, th...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Hemmings writers really should be more careful with the $5,000 Challenge. In my case, that regular feature of the blog led me to buy a car I’d never imagined owning aga...
We may have been doing this carspotting thing for too long if, when we come across a photo like the one above depicting the Joest-Porsche 908/03 heading back to the paddock during qualifying for the ...
In 1955, Cadillac held a position of absolute dominance in the luxury-car field, selling 50 percent more cars than Packard, Lincoln and Imperial combined. To see why, you need look no further than th...
The Simeone’s 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spyder at a 2015 Demo Day. Photos courtesy Simeone Automotive Museum. In most automotive museums, cars on static display are never started, run or exercise...
Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Though Oldsmobile didn’t field as many muscular models as its GM siblings Pontiac and Chevrolet, or competing automakers Ford and Chrysler...
Whoever’s behind the MyBelAir62 Tumblog recently turned up a number of found photos from Virginia City, Nevada, where the neon might not be as bright as in Las Vegas, but the intent to capture touris...
It isn’t likely that this 1928 Chevrolet Sprint Car, for sale on Hemmings.com, has a rich competition history. Though the current owner isn’t specific about the car’s history, it appears to be a cont...
A quartet of Alfa Romeo Spiders. Photos by Matthew Litwin and Jeff Koch. The Pininfarina-designed two-seat roadster debuted by Alfa Romeo in 1966 was not the company’s first attempt at building a Spi...