A whirlwind week on the Monterey Peninsula
All images Terry Shea and Matt Litwin. Earlier this week Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I returned from a week-long adventure to the West Coast. While most of the rest of the country remained in a sup...
All images Terry Shea and Matt Litwin. Earlier this week Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I returned from a week-long adventure to the West Coast. While most of the rest of the country remained in a sup...
The 1935 Duesenberg SSJ hammers for a price of $20 million, $22 million with fees. Photo by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In recent years, there’s been considerable speculat...
1948 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Berlinetta. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Following its 1947 Mille Miglia victory, Alfa Romeo understood its aging 8C 2900 B Berlinetta would soon be outpaced...
The event was sponsored by 1945 Speed and Custom and this shop was open to browse through their current projects. Photos by author. As if we here at Hemmings Motor News don’t attend or organize enoug...
1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. According to the latest NADA guide, high retail for a 1970 Plymouth Superbird built with the U-code engine (a 440 topped by a...
Photo courtesy Big Willy Mutant Jeep. Ian Liljeblad loves flatfender Jeeps. Ian Liljeblad loves reggae music. So, Ian Liljeblad decided to combine both passions for this year’s trip to the weeklong B...
The Renaissance Roadster is proof that coachbuilding never went away, and its hand-built nature has been garnering awards since its debut at the 2017 Detroit Autorama. Photos by Joey Savoie, courtesy...
The Fallen Trooper Memorial Car Show had something for just about everyone. Photos by author. Being both a retired USMC Sergeant Major and a retired Oregon State Patrolman, Rod Beach of Brooks, Orego...
All images courtesy of the Shelby American Collection Located in Boulder, Colorado, perhaps America’s greatest college town, the Shelby American Collection will be holding its annual car show and par...
1956 Cadillac View Master, built by Hess & Eisenhardt. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. There was no shortage of luxury sedan, coupe, and convertible models from Cadillac in 1956, but...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Ford’s 10-millionth Mustang, posed with Ford’s first production model. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company. On August 8, Ford celebrated the construction of its 10-millionth Mustang (including product...
1911 Buick Model 21 Touring (top); 1915 Dodge Touring (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but r...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA. Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” th...
Photos courtesy John Peterson, National Automobile Museum. John W. Mackay, unlike many of his ultra-rich contemporaries, wasn’t enamored with the automobile. Then again, not a lot of people were in t...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. And he called it… the Cougar. Okay, so Gale Halderman might have swung and missed on the name of Ford’s sporty compact four-seater, but the design he sketched for what wou...
1966 Porsche 911 Spyder. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Southern California Porsche dealer Johnny von Neumann knew what his customers wanted, and a Targa ...
The charity auction 1948 International Farmall H, pre-restoration. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. International Harvester’s Farmall H became a staple of American farms in the 1940s and ’50s due to i...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
Scarbo SVF1 prototype. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many racing fans, including Joe Scarbo, the pre-wing-era Formula 1 cars of the late 1960s were among the most beautiful co...
Images courtesy Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Ahead of a retrospective show in 2015, Robert Williams told the Los Angeles Times that he’s no fan of “lowbrow” or the stuffier “pop surrealism” t...
The “Bugtussle Caddy” has participated in more than a dozen “Treks.” Photos by the author unless otherwise stated. I couldn’t take my eyes off that Cadillac. Built in 1941, it was older than I, origi...
Eagle Squadron Mustang and its inspiration, the Supermarine Spitfire. All images courtesy of Ford; photos by Drew Gibson. We write about cars, sure, but that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate other hi...
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 used in “GoldenEye.” Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. GoldenEye, released in 1995 as the 17th film in the James Bond franchise, marked the return of the superspy’s beloved ...