1957 Maserati 250F, the fifth work in the Disintegrating II series. Photos courtesy Studio Oefner. Swiss artist Fabian Oefner sees things differently than the rest of us. Not content to view cars (or...
Article by William Hall. Photos by Rich Heinrich. There are those of us old enough to remember when the classic cars now gracing concours fields and auction stages were simply daily transportation. M...
The collection of Hartford photos that Joe Sokola provided us included a few from New York City, and given the lack of additional context, we have to assume that our regular Hartford photographer too...
For 1965, Pontiac’s Grand Prix arrived looking bigger and bolder, with its “venturi” shaped body riding on an expanded 121-inch wheelbase. The standard “premium gas” engine under the GP’s hood was th...
AAR Eagle Mk I chassis 104, now at The Revs Institute. Photo by Peter Harholdt, courtesy Revs Institute. Wanting to prove itself the equal of tire manufacturer Firestone on the world’s premier motors...
Photos by author. If you’re into antique cars, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to tell one car from another, especially if it was produced prior to the 1980s, or even the mid-1970s. Buick had...
Mazda took a significant gamble in 1989 when it released the Miata, its take on the classic British roadster. The risk paid off, and after eight years of building the car’s first generation NA models...
When shopping for a used vehicle, there’s no such thing as having too much information about its past. After reading the seller’s narrative of this 1991 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado, for sale on Hemm...
A cropped view of the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T seen below. Photography by author. Spring has arrived, it’s warm and sunny and hopefully soon there will be leaves in the trees. You’ve likely already ...
While researching the origin of the postcard photo that Jim and Chester’s Garage posted above (Newfound Gap right on the Tennessee-North Carolina border just off Route 441 ), we came across plenty mo...
Correct, this 1961 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country for sale on Hemmings.com is far from stock, though it’s not your typical hot rod. To begin with, the builder selected a blend of Mopar parts fr...
Bill Frick may be best known as the mechanical genius behind the Fordillac and, later, the Studillac, but his automotive dreams were grander than dropping Cadillac engines in someone else’s cars. Par...
Mazda’s millionth MX-5 Miata, a Soul Red Club edition. Photos courtesy Mazda. Whodathunk in the late Eighties that we were ready for a small, lightweight sports car of modest power – and impeccable r...
Here’s another from the back of my special tool drawer. It’s one I used to use occasionally, although I don’t have a need for it at the moment. That’s not because I sold the car, by the way, but beca...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As fans of American performance cars will tell you, the late 1960s might just represent the apogee of Ford’s Total Performance era, as v...
The first two of today’s carspotting scenes from Seventies Bologna come from Impounded and appear to have been scanned from postcards, but the resolution is still good enough for identifying the vari...
Volkswagen’s Scirocco was a hit with North American customers from its 1975 introduction to its 1989 demise, when it was replaced by the more agile, more luxurious and more expensive Corrado. Clean S...
Ferruccio Lamborghini. Photos courtesy Lamborghini. On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini was born into a grape farming family in Renazzo di Cento, in Italy’s Emilia Romagna Region. From these hum...
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no wa...
There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, o...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage constructio...
The first gauzy green signs of spring in the Northeast can turn a past-middle-aged car-magazine editor’s fancy to thoughts of affordable convertibles. Fox Mustang droptops were so prolifically produc...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
All images courtesy of BMW AG. “Race car for the street” is an oft-overused phrase, frequently applied to the likes of garden-variety sports and GT cars alike. But, sometimes, when a manufacturer mus...