Photograph by Thomas A. DeMauro. No single factor ever sinks an automaker. The struggle between profits and losses typically has its roots in circumstances suffered from decisions made years, if not ...
Photo courtesy Bonhams. As the family of Piet den Hartogh indicated when they decided to close his museum dedicated to Ford vehicles a year and a half ago, they will sell the entire collection all at...
The record-setting ‘Herbie,’ a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle sunroof sedan. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. No one knows exactly how many Volkswagen Beetles Walt Disney Productions used in making the first...
1977 Chevrolet LUV pickup. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctions. In need of a compact pickup to fight sales of import trucks, Chevrolet turned to Japanese partner Isuzu for help and, in 1972, debuted t...
Initially, the Vega was to be released only as a notchback and as a fastback, no wagon. But thanks to one designer’s after-hours work and a fortuitous visit from Ed Cole, the wagon got added to the l...
The 1957 Corvette SS (L) and the 1963 Corvette Grand Sport. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. A racer himself, Zora Arkus-Duntov – the ‘father of the Corvette” – understood the value of creating pu...
A.J. Foyt poses with the Gilmore-Foyt Coyote at Indy in 1977. Photo courtesy IMS. In 2017, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum honored four-time Indy 500 winner A.J. Foyt with a special exhibit en...
Kingston Custom’s White Phantom BMW R/80. Photos courtesy the Petersen Museum unless otherwise noted. On the heels of the successful Harley vs. Indian motorcycle display, which ended its run on March...
Indy Roadsters on display at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2013. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. There’s no precise definition of an “Indy Roadster,” and there are differing opini...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. Dual superchargers. Dual headlamps. Dual slicks. The car that Jim Street showed for a few years and then hid away for decades seemed to have dual e...
2017 Acura NSX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD powertrain layout. Photos courtesy Acura, unless otherwise noted. In the not-so-distant-past, the convenience and safety features we take for granted on modern auto...
Photos by Matthew Litwin. More than a mere shortened Javelin, the original two-seater AMX was a true sports car in its own right, and for its 50th anniversary next year, AMC enthusiasts are planning ...
As an old computer returns to its original owner, we wonder: Are old-car fans so different from vintage appliance fetishists? Photo by Rama. Are you a tech fetishist? I am not. Computers have, tradit...
Photo courtesy FCA. Five years after closing the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Chrysler’s parent company has decided to repurpose the former home of Dodge Viper production into an exhibit space for the ...
1914 FWD Model B, the museum’s oldest truck. Photos courtesy BC Vintage Truck Museum. In April 2017, the BC Vintage Truck Museum in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, received a Canadian government gr...
All images courtesy the author. Some weeks ago, I spent a lovely Saturday morning while visiting the little Bonfanti-Vimar Car Museum set in Bassano Del Grappa, a charming town placed at the feet of ...
This week, The Women of Trucking blog took a look back at the pioneers who fought their way into the male-dominated industry, going as far back as Luella Bates (pictured above) and Lillie Elizabeth M...
Images courtesy Porsche AG. This coming June 8 will mark a milestone for sports-car fans everywhere. It was on that date, 70 years ago, that Porsche produced the first example of the car destined to ...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. If a little is good, then a lot must be better, right? Or so went the thinking behind the Pro Street movement that aimed to put the fattest rear tires under everything...
Photos courtesy R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. High flood waters haven’t hit the Lansing area since 1975, but with deluges and snowmelt in the forecast, staff and volunteers at the R.E. Olds Transp...
Green Monster, circa 1968. Photo by Bri ham. To this day, Art Arfons holds one rather inglorious record: After crashing his Green Monster land-speed-record car in November 1966, he became the only pe...
Brock Yates, circa 2003. Photo by Jim Donnelly. Brock Yates was a writer, racer, visionary, and tireless champion of the art of driving. On Saturday, February 24, his widow Pamela and daughter Stacy ...
Photos via Mitch Vickers. Typically, you buy the car first, then the license plate. In Australia, where number plates can be bought and sold separate from a car, one collector of Holden’s luxury mode...
A Citroën SM pickup, towing a Citroën SM-suspension trailer, holding a Citroën SM Bonneville record holder. Photos courtesy Mullin Museum. The path to Bonneville’s 200 MPH Club typically doesn’t invo...
Teaser of the 1962 Corvette, pre-restoration. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. And then, there was one. Nearly four years after a sinkhole under the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum i...