DeLorean prototype 1 at the AACA Museum. Photo by Nancy Gates. In October 1976, the first running prototype of John DeLorean’s futuristic gullwing coupe was delivered by builder Triad Services Group....
Photo via Indiana Landmarks. After multiple considered and discarded ideas over the last several years, the Indianapolis plant that once churned out Ford Model Ts is slated for transformation into ap...
1925 Flint E-55 Sedan (top); 1925 Studebaker Big Six Duplex-Phaeton (above). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature th...
Photos via Jon Mello collection. On track it didn’t do that well. Over its one-year racing career, it DNFd as many times as it finished and only recorded one podium. But it’s not the racing record th...
The remains of the Commonwealth Coach and Trolley Museum. Photos courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. On November 1, a fire destroyed the building that once housed the Commonwealth Coac...
Rob Ida has carried on his father Bob’s passion for modifying and crafting hot rods, race cars, and other wheeled projects, and gained notoriety some years back for creating replicas of the famous Tu...
Portion of the Willow Run bomber and assembly plant. Image via Yankee Air Museum video. Of its original 5-million square feet, only about 144,000 square feet of the Willow Run bomber plant — which la...
Honda celebrates the first Japanese automobile fully assembled in the U.S.—an Accord sedan—on November 1, 1982, at their Marysville, Ohio, plant. Images courtesy of Honda. There was a time when buyin...
1970 Meyers Manx. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. While Texas state officials claim to be looking into the matter, the state’s DMV has outlawed any rebodied vehicles and has started to revoke titles and...
Photo courtesy LandSpeed.com. Not much exists on the alkali flats of the Diamond Valley in central Nevada. While cattle ranchers and timothy grass farmers keep to the southern end of the valley, the ...
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder turbo coupe. Original California car. Original black plates. Original Palomar Red. This vehicle went through nearly a complete resto...
Photo by Amy Friedenberger, The Roanoke Times. Since opening to the public in 2000, the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum in Roanoke, Virginia, has educated visitors about the history, use and effi...
Photos by the author. In 1999, no American Motors products had entered judging at the Mopar Nationals, let alone completed for top honors. DeWayne Ashmead, however, didn’t let a thing like precedent ...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...
New Corvettes roll off the Bowling Green assembly line in 2015. Photo courtesy General Motors. On July 28, production at GM’s Bowling Green Assembly Plant, home of the Chevrolet Corvette, was halted ...
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...
Owner Karl Foulkes-Halbard poses with the K3 after an exhilarating test run. Photos courtesy Lisa Beaney Photography. Okay, so it didn’t go at its record-setting speed of 130.91 mph that was set on A...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
Three-owner, numbers-matching 1959 Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite for sale. From the seller’s description: This is a nice example of an original British classic car. It is a 3-owner car since new and ...
By itself, it’s a wholly unremarkable ball of aluminum with a black textured finish, measuring roughly two inches in diameter. Featuring a collar at the bottom, the item is drilled and tapped with a ...
Photo by the author. Describing it as an emissions scandal on par with or worse than those plaguing European diesel car manufacturers, the Union of Concerned Scientists this month decried the RPM Act...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
1972 Mercury Montego GT (top); 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature t...