Students pose with the 1956 Ford F100 project truck. Photo courtesy East Syracuse Minoa School District. A 1956 Ford F100 resto-modded by high school students at East Syracuse Minoa Central High Scho...
1961 Buick Invicta instrument panel; image by the author. Buick’s full-size lineup for 1961 had been dramatically restyled–a crisp, sleek look, thanks to the elimination of what they called the Delta...
In 1960s England, it was common practice to swap a more powerful motorcycle engine into a lightweight Norton frame, creating bikes like the Triton (a Triumph/Norton hybrid), and the Norvin (a Vincent...
1927 Bugatti Type 38A Grand Sport. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. By the late 1920s, Bugatti had established itself as a dominant force in motor racing with the hu...
Donald Davidson. Photo courtesy IMS. Only one race track in the world has a full-time official historian, and it’s the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That historian is Donald Davidson, a native Briton ...
When it comes to obscure and in-depth knowledge of automobiles and motorcycles, it’s tough to top the editorial staff at Hemmings Motor News. Most of us spend off hours wrenching on the vehicles in o...
Some companies made the leap from two wheels to four very gracefully and successfully: BMW, Honda, Suzuki and Triumph come to mind. Italian scooter-maker Vespa, however, wasn’t one of those companies...
Crazy, right? Mercury’s Wrist-Twist steering couldn’t have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac’s Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steeri...
Sometimes, the right weekend car isn’t a car at all. Somewhere between restored and resto-modded, this driver-quality 1952 Ford F1 pickup, for sale on Hemmings.com, sports a considerable amount of wo...
According to the Showvans blog, the recent Cleveland Autorama’s show-within-a-show dedicated to custom vans was the largest indoor van show in more than 30 years. Also shows how far custom vanning ha...
Brian Redman posing with the E9 CSL “Batmobile” that won Daytona in 1976. Photo courtesy BMW. Brian Redman began racing professionally in 1968, and over the last 48 years has driven everything from s...
Man, ever since the Romulans started showing up, these carspotting photos started to get real difficult. Let’s press on regardless, though, with a pair of parking lot shots, above from photographer T...
It’s not perfect, and it’s the opposite of flashy, but this base 1977 Chevrolet Nova four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com – equipped with a six-cylinder engine, automatic transmission, bench seat...
The now-deserted warehouse. Photo by Paul Sableman. In what’s being called the barn find of the millennium, a batch of more than 4,000 brand-new 1962 De Sotos has been discovered in a warehouse on th...
Here’s The Inside Track on Olds’ Hottest Number laid out flat. Artwork provided by Automotive History Preservation Society Oldsmobile may have been caught by surprise by the Pontiac GTO in 1964, but ...
From Alden Jewell comes perhaps the most jam-packed carspotting image we’ve had in a while, one sure to keep y’all busy for days to come, and one that we’re pretty sure we haven’t previously run. The...
After partnering with Britain’s Cosworth Engineering to develop a 320-horsepower, 2.3-liter engine for its proposed 190 E rally car, Mercedes-Benz pulled the plug on the project when rival Audi debut...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. When Chevrolet released the newly styled 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe, it did so with the knowledge that a select group of customers would want to take these cars road...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
To some, the appeal of the collector car hobby is bringing a tired car, perhaps just a few skinned knuckles away from being sold for scrap, back from the brink. To others, the allure lies in the driv...
In an effort to get us “off the Hartford train,” reader Greg Beaulieu directed us toward Nova Scotia’s online photo archives, particularly the photos that depict downtown Barrington Street in the ear...
In 1990, Ford marked the 35th anniversary of the Thunderbird with a special edition of the range-topping Super Coupe. Finished in black with titanium-colored lower panels, a dark blue accent stripe a...
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainte...
A 1910 Renault Landaulette. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy the Mullin Museum. La Belle Époque, or “The Beautiful Period,” is generally used to describe a time in Western Europe that stretched fro...
2015 Touge California. Photos by Ben Hsu, courtesy Japanese Nostalgic Car . North America has its share of rally events for classic cars, including the Hemmings-sponsored Great Race, the Colorado Gra...