A few days ago, Kurt kicked off From the Toolbox, a series in which we show you images of a tool designed to do a particular job on a vehicle, and challenge you to identify the vehicle and the job. T...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. What if Carroll Shelby had the ear not of Henry Ford II but of his father, Edsel Ford? And what if sports cars became a phenomenon in the United States not afte...
1967 Plymouth Hemi GTX. Photos by Russ Rocknak, courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. Introduced in the fall of 1966, Plymouth’s GTX was billed as “the gentleman’s hot rod,” blending equal parts ...
One more from Tom Simpson’s Disneyland opening series on Flickr – we considered combining it with yesterday’s shot from the lot, but considering the volume of cars here, it almost seemed like too muc...
What do you prefer: a numbers-matching car with low miles and lots of original parts, or a clean restoration that deviates from original for the sake of enhanced performance? If you’re of the latter ...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of...
1965 Buick Riviera “Clamshell” headlamps doors closed and open; images by Jeff Koch Simply put, the 1965 model year is the quintessential Riviera among collectors and enthusiasts alike. Much has been...
Plenty of places have called themselves a Disneyland for car guys, but apparently the real Disneyland for car guys was at Disneyland itself way back on its grand opening in 1955 – that is, right outs...
Amazing how a series of windows can change the whole character of a vehicle. Take, for instance, this 1962 Ford Falcon E11 Station Bus for sale on Hemmings.com, technically a Falcon and not an Econol...
Photo courtesy SEMA. Some of the largest legislative issues of concern to collector car enthusiasts – among them the Environmental Protection Agency’s racecar ruling and the spread of ethanol-blended...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well t...
The Ford Thunderbird began life in 1953 as a direct response to Chevrolet’s recently unveiled Corvette prototype. Calling in some major players in the design field, the Thunderbird rapidly developed ...
Car Zero, the Series I built as a pilot for the Reborn program. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Any vehicle, it’s said, is only original once. Replace or repaint body work, repair the interior or ...
True, we don’t do a lot of new car dealership photos in the carspotting series – not enough variety to keep the troops entertained – but used car dealerships are fair game, especially when they’re as...
The Cord 810/812 was certainly one of the most influential designs, both indirectly and directly, as we see from the Oldsmobile Toronado, the SAMCO-Cord, and this 1987 Amaretta Custom Coupe for sale ...
1957 Ford Thunderbird, with the F-code V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Ford’s two-seat Thunderbird debuted in 1955, in direct response to the Chevrolet Corvette. Within a few years, however, th...
Photo courtesy Restoration Specialties. David Mihalko Sr., bought his first car, a 1929 Ford Model A, in 1955 at the age of 14. His $35 investment would ignite a lifelong passion for classic cars, an...
Photos by Bryan Thompson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from automotive designer and design journalist Bryan Thompson. Bryan is a frequent contributor to Hemmings, and an avid fan of finding ...
Oldsmobile Fouranado. Photos by Jeff Koch. Hemmings Daily and Hemmings Muscle Machines readers might recall the 1968 “Fouranado” — a one-off Oldsmobile 442 with a Toronado front-drive powertrain — fe...
Of all the Hartford photos in the collection Joe Sokola supplied us, we only found these three from the Forties. Above, the theater marquee shows two films released in July and September of 1945, and...
In case you haven’t noticed, Jaguar E-Type prices have climbed into the stratosphere in recent years, placing the model beyond the reach of many British car fans. Its successor, the Jaguar XJS, remai...
Ed Welburn. Photos courtesy General Motors. Inspired by cars seen at the Philadelphia Auto Show, like the Cadillac Cyclone concept and the 1959 Corvette, 11-year-old Ed Welburn sent a letter to Gener...
Photos by the author. It’s springtime in Central Texas and that means the Lonestar Round Up has convened in Austin for a hot rod weekend. The show brings builders, musicians, artists, vendors, and fa...