1979 Ford Mustang. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company, unless otherwise noted. Appearing in September 1978, the Fox body Mustang represented a radical departure from the outgoing Mustang II, both ato...
1950 Veritas Scorpion. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. The postwar years were a bleak time for European automakers, including Germany’s BMW. Its factories in East Germany were taken over by the Sov...
Astronaut Alan Shepard (center) accepts the keys to a custom 1962 Corvette, gifted to him by Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole (right) and GM Styling President Bill Mitchell. Photo courtesy General M...
Images are courtesy of Honda. Dateline, Chicago Auto Show, February 1989: A few booths away from where Mazda was introducing the future of the classic British roadster sat Honda’s answer to the raref...
Photographs courtesy Hispano Suiza. Although we probably won’t see a complete picture of the new Hispano Suiza Carmen model until the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show in mid-March, we have seen s...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
The Volkswagen Type 2a camper van, rendered entirely in Lego bricks. Photos courtesy f.r.e.e. and Messe Muenchen. Volkswagen’s 1968-’71 Type 2a camper van — sold on these shores as the Campmobile — i...
1968 Brabham BT26, chassis BT26A-3, in its 1969 Canadian Grand Prix colors. Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams.com. In 1966-’67, Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 constructor’s championship and...
Fiat 500 F featured in “The Value of Good Design,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Photos courtesy FCA. Like the Fiat 500 Topolino that preceded it, the Fiat 500 Nuovo — that debuted in Ju...
2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata 30th Anniverary Edition retractable fastback. Photos courtesy Mazda North America. In 1989, Japanese automaker Mazda debuted an entirely new model at the Chicago Auto Show. Call...
One of three limos built for Packard executives in 1941, the car’s trunk housed an enormous air conditioning unit. My brother tried to sell the Packard at the 1972 Hershey, Pennsylvania, classic car ...
Photo courtesy State Library of Western Australia. Apologies for leading with a cheap-shot Lucas joke, but you knew they were coming. After all, if a lighting and electrics automotive supplier best k...
The Gas Monkey Garage-built 1991 Ferrari F40, now offered at U.S. Marshals online auction. All photos courtesy Apple Auctioneering. Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas, didn’t make its name by rebuild...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Tom McEwen’s 1968-’69 Top Fuel slingshot dragster. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the mid-1960s, Tom McEwen had earned a reputation as a winning drag racer (and the nickname “Th...
The legendary Jim “Jake” Jacobs and his hot rod that changed everything at the Grand National Roadster show. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. It’s been a minute since the One Perfect Day cre...
Images courtesy Boyle Racing Headquarters Foundation. At this point, nothing but four walls and a concrete floor remains of the Boyle Racing Team’s headquarters in a run-down neighborhood just northw...
The first Porsche 916 prototype, “Brutus.” Photos courtesy Artcurial. In an alternate timeline, the Porsche 911 may have lost its crown as the brand’s halo car circa 1972, replaced by a high-performa...
1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2246, which sold for a fee-inclusive $1.05 million. CSX2246 photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Shelby 289 Cobra may well have been...
The opening lap of the SVRA Charity Pro-Am race at VIR in 2018. Still image from video below. In 2014, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) debuted the Indy Legends Pro-Am race, pairing am...
1963 Porsche 356B Carrera 2 GS cabriolet. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1963, the most expensive Porsche road model one could order from an American dealership was the 356B Carrera 2 GS cabriolet, whic...
1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, chassis 412024. Photos courtesy Artcurial. Consider this: Just five Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B models were ever built with Carrozzeria Touring Berlinetta bodies ...
While pulling together information on the Plymouth that won the Autos Clasicos show in Cuba, we came across Cuban Classics , a blog that seems intent on cataloging every one of the old cars still ply...
1967 Shelby G.T. 500 Super Snake. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 2013, a one-of-one built 1967 Shelby G.T. 500 Super Snake, powered by a 427-cu.in. V-8 liberated from Shelby’s Ford GT40 Mk II pro...
The Cammack Tucker Gallery. Image courtesy AACA Museum, Inc. Seventy years after the closure of his namesake automobile company, and 63 years after his death in December 1956, Preston Tucker remains ...