Photo courtesy Early Ford V-8 Museum. The only stainless steel 1936 Ford known to exist in private hands will no longer enjoy such status after collector Joe Floyd announced he’s donating it – along ...
Mazda Classic Automobil-Museum Frey in Augsburg, Germany. Photos courtesy Mazda Europe. The Frey family has been selling Mazda automobiles in the Augsburg, Germany, area since 1978, and it’s amassed ...
At the dawn of the automotive industry, cars were assembled one at a time by skilled laborers, generally from components supplied by specialist companies. Such practices were costly, meaning that aut...
Coachbuilder Hans Leo Senden’s take on the Porsche 911 caught the eye of the crew from Ferdinand at the recent Techno Classica Essen. The phrase “Fred-in-a-shed” caught our eye. * The Crosleykook spe...
Ferrari 375 MM, Jaguar D-type, Cunningham C4-R. Photos by Andrew Taylor, courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. It was to be a battle for the ages, according to period publications, pitting p...
A Lincoln dual-cowl phaeton parked outside the Marshal Point Lighthouse. Photo courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. The Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) in Owls Head, Maine, is well-known ...
August 2016; Melissa Rhoades (right) drops the Corvette off at the National Corvette Museum. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Burke Rhoads, an officer with the Nicholasville, Kentucky, polic...
Michael Paul Smith’s latest made-you-look-twice diorama may be the biggest he’s ever attempted, and he breaks down exactly what it takes to build such a diorama on his Flickr page. (h/t to Gene Herma...
James Sandoro poses with the four recently donated Corvettes. Photo by Mark Mulville, courtesy The Buffalo News. The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum is best known for its collection of veh...
Photos by Jason Robinson, courtesy GM. More than 100,000 documents and artifacts related to Flint carriagebuilding and early General Motors history have made their way to the newly reopened Flint fac...
A 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T restomod, owned by Pete and Kari Cellini. Photo courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Fans of vehicles from Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Ram, SRT, Jeep, De Soto and...
A single-cylinder 1908 Brush is among the oldest trucks to be displayed. Images courtesy the Gilmore Car Museum For all its popularity today, the pickup truck has not always been highly cherished in ...
Route 66 outside of Oatman, Arizona. Photo by Vicente Villamon. Citing the economic impact that Route 66 has had and continues to have on small to mid-size communities, Landmarks Illinois earlier thi...
Photos courtesy National Motorcycle Museum. John Parham lost a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis on April 20th. In addition to starting J&P Cycles, one of the largest retailers in the aftermarket m...
The Sherman M4 tank was powered by a variety of engines, but by far the oddest was the 30-cylinder A57 invented by Chrysler. Essentially five L-head inline sixes joined together, the unusual powerpla...
Design patent 190225, granted May 1961. A collection of more than 396,000 patents, dating back to the 1790s and assembled over the better part of a century, has made its way to the Gilmore Car Museum...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
A.J. Foyt, with the Bowes Seal Fast Special in 1961. Image courtesy IMS. A.J. Foyt was the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, earning victories in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977. Two of ...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Polarizing? Sure. Criticized? Of course. But the Petersen Automotive Museum’s undulating steel ribbon facade can now be described as award-winning after th...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...
1970 Ford Maverick, to be featured in the upcoming Detroit Underdogs exhibit. Photo courtesy AACA Museum. American automakers occasionally hit an out-of-the-park home run, producing cars with appeal ...
While Citroen had the 2CV ready to launch in 1939, its delay until after World War II resulted from a period of German interference intended to get Citroen to build the Beetle instead, as Ronan Glon ...
Photos courtesy New York governor’s office. Rather than peruse the latest executive cars and limousines for its officials and diplomats to wave at crowds in future parades, the state of New York deci...
Dario Franchitti (L) and Bruce McLaren. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bruce McLaren, best known for his dominance in the Can-Am series as both a driver and constructor, never drove in t...