Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News. Pop quiz: when was the first MG sedan built? MG sedan! you may say, but MG built sports cars! It’s true, and the first MG sedan — saloo...
There’s some downtown revitalization planning going on here in Bennington lately, which probably doesn’t mean much to 99 percent of you, but nevertheless benefits 100 percent of you via these carspot...
So check it out: The thoughtful original owner of this 1962 Lotus Elite for sale on Hemmings.com thoughtfully disassembled the entire car 50-something years ago, saving its eventual restorer that big...
First-generation 1970 Toyota Corolla. Photos courtesy Toyota. In November of 1966, Toyota launched a new model in the Japanese market, slotting in below the popular Corona. Called the Corolla, it was...
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car sho...
Small parts and hardware organizers like these can be purchased from various sources. Photos by author. If you’ve read my blogs over the past few years, you know that some of them deal with my organi...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
From 1983 through 1986, those looking for a Ford Mustang GT with a little extra flash could opt for a Predator Mustang, built by Solomon America and sold through select Ford dealerships. The brainchi...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
The Veterans Charity Ride arriving in Sturgis, 2015. Photos courtesy Indian Motorcycles. The Veterans Charity Ride was an entirely new and highly successful idea started last year by veteran Army Par...
Scans of book from author’s collection. Back in the spring of 1971 I was in my freshman year of high school and one of our English assignments that semester was to read a book of our choice and write...
Note what you don’t see on this 1937 Cord 812 for sale on Hemmings.com: badges, cloissones, and other decoration from years and years of participating in shows and scooping up awards. That’s because ...
It’s a good bet that many of you started following Jay Leno’s old car exploits after he got involved in the subculture of giant tank/airplane/firetruck-engined roadsters, and he returned to that form...
In much of the world, the Citroen 2CV served as affordable postwar transportation for the masses, but by 1967, after 19 years of production, the design was growing long in the tooth. Enter the Citroe...
Photos by author. Automakers are constantly pressured to bring out new and fresh products, virtually being required to reinvent the wheel, if you will, to get customers into showrooms. Of course, the...
Whoever it was that recently sent me an archive page dedicated to Esso gas stations in Norway – because we get submissions like that all the time! – thank you. Several of the photos on that page make...
Though this 1966 Pontiac Grand Prix for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t originally come with a four-speed, a) it’s what the owner wanted, b) it’s probably what a good chunk of potential buyers would like...
The Fiat 124 Sport Spider and the Alfa Romeo Spider, two Italian twin-cam beauties introduced 50 years ago this year, will be among the special classes at the 11th annual Hemmings Sports other import...
Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside...
Seldon Cooper’s former 1987 Volvo 240, now a resident of the AACA Museum. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise specified. In September of 2012, Maryland resident Seldon Cooper pulled into Le...
The close of the 1970s wasn’t exactly the high-water mark for performance cars from American manufacturers, yet that didn’t keep automakers from marketing them. In 1979, Chevrolet produced a consumer...
From the various reviews online, the 1967 flick “Hot Rods to Hell” probably isn’t worth tracking down for the cinematic value, but it does at least offer some decent carspotting, as we see from the a...
Who knew you could get Keystone-style mag wheels for a King Midget, the pride of Athens, Ohio? And they fit on this dressed-up – at least, as dressed-up as a Spartan King Midget can get – 1963 King M...
Jaguar XKSS. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. On February 12, 1957, a fire began in a tire storage area of Jaguar’s Browns Lane plant in Coventry, England, consuming much of the assembly area befor...
Image courtesy Google Maps. Other than a nine-hole golf course and Interstate 29, there’s not much around the former Onawa Municipal Airport – just a long strip of concrete in the middle of the Iowa ...