One of our favorite micro-movements within the first generation of the Muscle Car era is the Name thing. You’ve seen great old photos of this trend: some killer Mopar wing car or Camaro or Mustang or...
Photo by Michael Milne. While it would appear that Ralph Nader and the Corvair community have mended fences over the last several years – he appeared on stage at his Automotive Hall of Fame induction...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
All images from Hemmings Classifieds listings. It’s either the coming of spring in New England or the mounting stir-craziness we’re feeling due to social distancing that has the Hemmings staff swappi...
Factory photos courtesy of General Motors. The Grand Prix entered the personal/luxury/performance car market for 1962 and the 1966 model continued to deliver contemporary styling, powerful and smooth...
All photos by the author To the casual observer this pile of rusted metal is just that – a pile of rusted, crumpled, useless metal. But it’s more than that. Believe it or not, it’s the body of a 1935...
Eric Szabo had a lot going for him, according to the few English-language accounts we’ve been able to find of his career. Moscow School of Industrial Art graduate; designer for ZIS/ZIL and NAMI; depu...
Photo courtesy Circuit of the Americas. Even if you weren’t already planning to practice social distancing, that’s going to become the default over the next couple of months as more states and munici...
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...
All photos by the author. Exhibitors do not apply for entry to the annual Salem (Oregon) Roadster Show. They must be invited. There are no fees to enter, no judging classes or committees. All makes a...
Is there anything more fun than heads-up, straight-axled drag cars on the street? Than backing a car off a trailer where mere mortals park commuter crossovers? Than trying to time the last smokey bur...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. When the Bullitt Mustang sold for a record $3.4 million earlier this year, hardly anybody asked what Mustang could top that; why ask a silly questi...
Don Garlits in Swamp Rat XIII, March 1970. Photo courtesy NHRA. 1,300 pounds. 1,600 horsepower. 220 inches out to those front wheels. No more bodywork or paint than necessary. Like many a Don Garlits...
Photo courtesy Australian National Motor Museum. It’s not difficult to find a fault for the demise of the Hartnett Motor Company, one of the few companies to offer a challenge to Holden to become Aus...
Alice Ramsey and Hermine Jahns, c.1909. Photo courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library. “A few of our most skeptical friends told us after our return that they d...
1960 Pontiac Catalina for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Beautifully restored off frame restoration. V8 389 cu. in. with 4 barrel carburetor, power steering, power brakes, autom...
Because we’re all about to be quarantined away for the foreseeable future, we might as well do something to lift our collective spirits. Oh, and April 1 is right around the corner. So bring on your c...
It’s an old trope that stock cars used to be stock cars, but there’s still a lot of truth to that. In between those early NASCAR days when off-the-assembly-line Hudson Twin H-Power big sixes ruled th...
Cambridge Coldhams Lane petrol station, circa 1975. Photo courtesy Sainsbury Archive. As the U.K. government grows closer to introducing E10 ethanol-blended fuel, it’s also following through on its p...
Would you look at that: More photos from our readers! Which is great, because all of you who responded to our last reader photo roundup pretty much unanimously endorsed the idea of doing this on a re...
This week on the Muscle Machines newsletter, we’re featuring something a little different: a very kewl survivor “East Coast” custom in the John North “White Pearl” ’57 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. ...
If you saw the lead story in this week’s Muscle Machines newsletter, you’ve no doubt seen this killer ’57 Ford full-custom that comes with its own great history. The John North “White Pearl” is not o...
Holden Hurricane. Photo courtesy GM Media. With last month’s sudden announcement that GM will kill off the Holden brand as it pulls out of right-hand-drive markets, Australian government officials ha...
Photo by Matt Litwin. In every niche in the collector car world, there are people you stop and listen to, no matter the occasion. When it comes to Studebaker drag racing, that person is Ted Harbit, w...