Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...
Photos courtesy University of Chicago, except where noted. How does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac? More puzzling, how does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete that, all told, weig...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. Since 2012, Mark Lizewskie has been the executive director of the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and as a board member for The Elegance at Hershey, he’s been a fami...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. A new summer-long exhibit at Milwaukee’s Harley-Davidson Museum showcases vintage drag cars and motorcycles and celebrates drag racing pop culture from the 1950...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Our impulse to pull back the curtain, to see the humble and real genesis of our fantasies, where does that come from? Are we not impressed enough with the film that we...
Mercedes-Benz C111 variants on display at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz unless otherwise noted. Mercedes-Benz seriously began exploring the possibility of build...
A barn-fresh Jaguar XK120 drophead coupe at Bonhams Quail Lodge auction in 2014. Photo by author. A car, truck or motorcycle is only original once, explaining, perhaps, the premiums often paid for “b...
By the late 1930s, those wanting to win sprint car races at Midwest tracks often turned to Indianapolis race car constructor Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, who seemed to have a way with all things mechanical. D...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
Double-exposed film, an annoyance that digital photography has all but eliminated, can actually look rather nice in the hands of a photographer like Jacob Kahler, who specializes in double-exposed au...
Don’t let its black paint and full fenders fool you–this Ford Model T Runabout is far from stock. Photos by the author. Henry Ford advertised his Model T as “The Universal Car,” with the implication ...
The award-winning 1958 Subaru 360 K111. Photo courtesy of Fuji Heavy Industries. The Subaru 360 may not have been an ideal fit for American consumers, but in Japan, the “Ladybug” became a cultural ic...
Photo by Mike Boening. Along with art galleries, a nightclub, apartments, and a spa, the group behind the redevelopment of the former Packard plant in Detroit may also include a museum dedicated to P...
1951 Indian Chief Roadmaster. Photo by Dawn Deppi. Motorcyclists tend to be a divided tribe, with loyalties often split by brand, style or even decade of manufacture. Opening on August 20, the Simeon...
Futurliner No. 3. Photos via MAG Auctions. While a much-hyped and fully restored Futurliner consigned to auction apparently failed to sell over the weekend, another one of the 12 GM Parade of Progres...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...
1963 Chevrolet Impala, Owner Lee Cordova of Alcalde, New Mexico, 1998. Photo by Jack Parsons, courtesy New Mexico Digital Collections. In the mid-Eighties, MTV descended on the northern New Mexico ci...
Lamborghini P140 prototype. P140 photos by Ronan Glon. Lamborghini needed to replace both the Countach and the Jalpa in the late 1980s. While the Countach was a range-topping, V12-powered flagship, t...
An M4 Sherman tank, displayed on the grounds of the Normandy Tank Museum. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In 2013, military vehicle collector Patrick Nerrant opened the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, Franc...
Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. The original Mini is often credited for laying the foundations of the city car as we know it today. However, that ...
Photo by Eli Solomon, courtesy FIVA. In neither of its two entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans did the severely aerodynamic CD SP66 No. 52 actually finish the race, but that hasn’t stopped the current...
Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Legendary drag racer, hot rodder, and land-speed racer Art Chrisman – whose dragster set the pattern for many other quarter-mile conquerors and who racked u...
1968 Penske Trans Am Camaro. Photo courtesy of Simeone Foundation Museum. In 1965, Roger Penske was a newly minted Chevrolet dealer with a showroom in West Philadelphia. That meant he had to walk awa...
Leonard Miller poses with Benny Scott’s Formula Vee Lola, circa 1974. Images courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. The Smithsonian Institution is in the process of collecting exhibits for its new Na...
1954 Carrera Panamericana-winning Lincoln Capri. Photos courtesy National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), unless otherwise noted. Intended to publicize the completion of the Pan-American H...