Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
Photos by Preston Rose, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, unless otherwise noted. If automotive appreciation can be reduced to generational preferences, then Mark Gessler at the Historic Vehicle...
Hand-built recreation of a 1953 Lancia Aprilia Sport by OSA for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This Lancia “Sport” by OSA, is a “Mille Miglia type” racecar, an awesome recreatio...
The Bullitt hero car alongside the 2019 Bullitt Mustang at the 2018 North American International Auto Show. Photos by Ronan Glon, unless otherwise noted. The Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback t...
DeLorean factory in Humble, Texas. Image via Google Maps. By now, two years after the passage of the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act, architects of the legislation had hoped to see assembl...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. After an extensive lobbying effort by dune buggy and kit car owners, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has put a halt to revoking dun...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...
Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photos provided by Real Deal Steel. When even folks outside of the Rust Belt discover a lack of project-level examples of a particular car without terminal rust, that typically means the market’s rip...
Photos courtesy Checker Motor Cars. With a stock of Checker parts in hand and official paperwork filed, the reborn Checker Motor Cars is set to begin production of its versions of the famed taxi comp...
Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...
Tatra T600 Tatraplan. Photo by Jean-Pol Grandmont. With plans already in the works for an expansion of the existing Tatra truck museum to include Tatra cars, the Czech truckmaker and onetime carbuild...
Given that none of the Diamond T Doodlebugs built for Texaco are known to have survived (and the plans to drop a quad-turbo Detroit diesel in it), we’re going to presume that the project sketches tha...
Photo by Martin Falbisoner. With just about a week left to go in the current Congressional session, a handful of bills ranging from ethanol reform to excluding competition vehicles from environmental...
1937 Cord 812. Photo by Jeff Koch. Eighty years ago, the Cord epitomized the car of the future. Now, thanks in part to legislation intended to encourage low-volume replica car builders, the Cord may ...
The car that won the first Indianapolis 500, the 1911 Marmon Wasp, on display in Shell’s SEMA booth. Photos by Steve Berry. Every year, the automotive aftermarket flocks to Las Vegas in early Novembe...
A Peugeot 403 convertible, similar to the one driven by TV detective Frank Columbo (which was a faded gray). Photos by Nick Kurczewski. What does a Columbo-style battered Peugeot 403 convertible and ...
Photos courtesy GM Heritage Center. We always get amped when collections display historic race cars, even if they’re necessarily re-creations. That’s frequently the case because too many early race c...
1964 Abarth 850 TC replica for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: replica ex-Coppa Mille racer with Autobianchi A112 70HP engine, dual wishbone front suspension, fiberglass doors an...
Photos by the author. The Italian version of the DMV likely doesn’t appear on most folks’ European vacation itineraries. After all, there’s Roman ruins, stunning artwork, castles and clocktowers to s...
Though this 1908 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com may not have been an original stunt parade car from the first half of the 20th Century, it has its own unique history – specifically as a stunt ...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...