1915 Buick C-4 Express (top); 1928 International SF-36. Images by the author. As the holiday season nears at a rapid pace, let’s launch Season Four of This or That with a couple of haulers – ideally ...
Rugged cars meant to last decades and be easily repairable by just about anyone were just the ticket for Africa, thought Tony Howarth, whose 2CV-powered Africar showed promise but didn’t reach produc...
Rendering of the proposed AACA Library. Images courtesy of the AACA. Hershey, Pennsylvania, will soon be home to what very well may be the world’s largest and most significant collection of automotiv...
Cadillac Style honored by the Cadillac La Salle Club By Richard Lentinello At the recent Cadillac La Salle Club’s Grand National Meet held in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the distinct honor of being a...
The 2019 Zenith Award winner was this fabulous 1931 Buick owned and restored by David and Susan Landow. This past Memorial Day weekend I had the distinct honor of being asked to judge the AACA’s Zeni...
Photo courtesy of the Pontiac-Oakland Club International. A trio of Pontiac GTOs are currently on display at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The vehicle...
On the East Coast, car weather is an actual season: There’s a beginning, middle, and end. Just like “Winter Project” is also a season that takes up the months between car weathers, these are the cycl...
Stripped to bare metal, the REO awaits final refinishing at Reflections Auto Restoration in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Photography by author. One cold Saturday this past February, I traveled to Belc...
Still from AACA Library video of 1965 Glidden tour. With about half of the films in the AACA Library’s collection now digitized, the library’s staffers have organized a film series to not only showca...
1911 Buick Model 21 Touring (top); 1915 Dodge Touring (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but r...
Each spring for 40 years, the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA has held AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it has grown into an event quite unlike any other in the U.S. The event is truly an...
Photos courtesy AACA Library. “Baby” is 63 years old, 5,000 pounds, and rated at three-quarter ton. But after a seven-year restoration of the 1955 Chevrolet bookmobile, Baby is also brand-spanking ne...
Images via Google Street View. While the Antique Automobile Club of America’s current digs have an undeniably exceptional provenance as a former dormitory for the Milton Hershey School, they lack in ...
Photos courtesy AACA. It typically takes a dedicated restoration shop and plenty of blank checks to turn out national award-winning restorations, but Richard Harding managed to take this past weekend...
Forbes this week ran an article discussing what happens when nobody wants your parents’ stuff, and though it doesn’t address collector cars, we know well that the old car hobby is a generational one,...
1947 Chrysler Town and Country sedan. Photo courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Sixty-five years. The Antique Automobile Club of America and the Classic Car Club of America have co-existed for long...
Photo by the author. Though the collector car hobby – and Hemmings, by extension – focuses almost exclusively on older motor vehicles, that doesn’t mean it is or we are bereft of news to report. In f...
Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy AACA Museum. As more facts and documents regarding the terminated merger negotiations between the Antique Automobile Club of America and the AACA Museum come to light, ...
AACA Museum. Photo by Mr. T in DC. A proposed merger between the Antique Automobile Club of America and the AACA Museum that would have put the club, museum and the club’s library under one roof has ...
All photos by Gordon Rinschler. Over the last couple of years, the AACA has organized at least a couple “Taillight Diplomacy” trips to Cuba with pretty much the same aim as the posts we’ve been assem...
1991 Saturn models, including the SC (left), SL1 (center) and SL2 (right). All photos copyright 2016 General Motors LLC. Used with permission, GM Media Archive. By the early 1980s, General Motors was...
Still from AACA Library film. With hundreds of deteriorating old films in its collection, the folks at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s library started to investigate how to digitize and pres...
The AACA’s Michael J. Jones (L) with Coker Tire’s Wade Kawasaki. Images courtesy Coker Tire. On Saturday, February 13, the Antique Automobile Club of America held its 80th annual national awards banq...