It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Lotus Elise is the most important car in the company’s recent history; after all, Lotus officials themselves said as much in this documentary that details the...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
Some see junk, I see treasure…art on wheels. Photos by the author except where noted. Your first car may have been like mine. Rust everywhere, peeling paint, torn upholstery, smelly interior, worn ou...
Yes, Phil Hill became the first American to win the Formula One world championship driving for Ferrari in 1961. Yes, he had a spectacular racing career and became a world-class auto restorer followin...
Grandson Jake, 19, owns three classics, including this 1975 Plymouth Scamp. He’s way ahead of where I was at his age…and his cars are more interesting, too. Photos by the author except where noted. P...
In researching the first Peking to Paris race, we of course came across plenty of mentions of the more recent tributes to the original, including this documentary following the route and participants...
1978 Milt Antonick drawing shows conventional doors. One day, Plymouth designer Milt Antonick took a full-size Dodge van home, but couldn’t fit it into his garage. Milt recalled, as we looked at his ...
Front-wheel drive had been done before, of course. Even the transverse engine front-wheel-drive layout predated the Mini. However, as this 1961 BMC video via British Pathe notes, Alec Issigonis’ triu...
One of three limos built for Packard executives in 1941, the car’s trunk housed an enormous air conditioning unit. My brother tried to sell the Packard at the 1972 Hershey, Pennsylvania, classic car ...
Given the fact it’s been uploaded to YouTube and now we’re able to share it, the information in this CIA mobile surveillance training video from 1974, shot around the western London suburbs, is likel...
My first ride in Greyhound’s Scenicruiser was like going to heaven. Hemmings file photo. “Can you spare a buck?” the alcohol-challenged “gentleman” asked loudly. Where did he come from? Why didn’t se...
Dad always filled his car trunk to capacity. Photo by Richard Lentinello. Dad’s car trunk was loaded with so many tools and emergency equipment it would have made a service station mechanic envious. ...
Back in 1966, Bruno Bozzetto released this short animated film following Signor Rossi’s purchase of a car and all the miseries and madness and anti-social tendencies that come along with the purchase...
What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...
Photos by Geoff Hacker, except where noted. Photo History Starting in the autumn of 1952 until the spring of 1954 I was a student at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying mechanic...
While there are other races on the Australian Touring Car Championship schedule, other circuits around Oz to turn a tire in anger, it’s Bathurst (technically the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, N...
My parents’ 1937 Nash LaFayette took me on my first vacation. We stayed at a motel—actually, a long string of lakeshore cabins—in 1949. The lake and our cabin smelled of dead fish. Photo by Mark J. M...
Granted, this video tour of the BMW Museum by Car TV is coming up on four years old, but it still makes for an interesting half-hour or so. We especially appreciate the lack of a soundtrack or narrat...
Photo by Danny Taylor. Just a short year ago, I had never heard of the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR). But then I stumbled onto an article detailing a proposed 2018 “revival” running of the GAM...
Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...
“Toot-Scoot” (left), my first “motorcycle,” cost $35. The U.S. Post Office “mailster” was fun to drive, too, dates sitting next to me on that yellow, hand-made seat. Its rear wheel crushed a young la...
Craig in his dad’s garage with the Spirit of America mockup, holding his model of the car in its original configuration. Note that “Firestone” is painted on the front wheel. (That’s another story!) I...
Underpowered, slow, and uncomfortable, Peykans were everywhere in Iran in the 1970s. Fearless Tehran taxi drivers often drove their Peykans on sidewalks or the wrong direction on one-way streets. Pho...
Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...
Worldwide, the collector car hobby has a cornucopia of events to choose from, but if any of them is most like the Comic-Cons with their increasingly prevalent cosplay, it’s the Goodwood Revival, know...