Photo by Aaron Summerfield, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s. It apparently paid to know people who worked at Cadillac during the Fifties. Call ’em up, and whango tango, custom Cadillac delivered to your doo...
Photos by the author. Discussions of performance cars from American Motors usually start and stop with the AMX and Javelin, but it was the muscular one-year-only Rambler Rebel that outsped its contem...
Photos by author. My start in this business happened to coincide with the release of the Fourth-Gen Firebirds and Camaros. During those early days, one of my coworkers gave me this 1993 Camaro Z28 ho...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...
Terry Shea risking life and limb to get the shot. Photos by Terry Shea and Kurt Ernst, unless otherwise noted. Don’t get us wrong – we love old cars, but part of covering what happens on four wheels ...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Original DKM Wankel-designed engine prototype. Photo by Ralf Pfeifer. As the world waits on Mazda to maybe possibly announce that it will resurrect the rotary engine, the compact pistonless internal ...
Photo by the author. Extreme attention to detail over a seven-year-long restoration helped propel a Forest Green 1970-1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 to the top of the judging sheets at this past weekend’s ...
Photo by the author. Extreme attention to detail over a seven-year-long restoration helped propel a Forest Green 1970-1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 to the top of the judging sheets at this past weekend’s ...
Art courtesy of the GM Heritage Center. The Corvette endures as one of those special vehicles that’s widely adored by its owners and also revered by many who haven’t yet had the privilege of holding ...
2017 Mazda MX-5 RF. Photos by author. For those with a passion for driving, a preference for corners over quarter-miles, and a limited budget, Mazda’s MX-5 Miata has represented a solid and logical o...
Photo courtesy Early Ford V-8 Museum. The only stainless steel 1936 Ford known to exist in private hands will no longer enjoy such status after collector Joe Floyd announced he’s donating it – along ...
Mazda Classic Automobil-Museum Frey in Augsburg, Germany. Photos courtesy Mazda Europe. The Frey family has been selling Mazda automobiles in the Augsburg, Germany, area since 1978, and it’s amassed ...
Here’s a grab-shot of the Buick on the road in front of a weathered barn I found while taking a drive. If you look closely, you can just see the white cable ties on the rearview mirror. Photos by aut...
Photos courtesy Studebaker Museum. Dismantled and stuffed away with no discernible caretaker, a relic of Studebaker and South Bend history will rise again when the team redeveloping a former Studebak...
At the dawn of the automotive industry, cars were assembled one at a time by skilled laborers, generally from components supplied by specialist companies. Such practices were costly, meaning that aut...
Still image from video below. I grew up in the 1970s and recall having Aurora AFX and Tyco slot car sets and later slotless car sets like Lionel’s PowerPassers, where the cars could change lanes. Tra...
All images courtesy of Porsche AG Porsche AG today resembles very little the company from 50 years ago. Instead of making just sports cars, the Volkswagen-owned operation makes a ton of money by sell...
Southern District of Iowa federal courthouse. Image courtesy Google Maps. An Iowa man who defrauded at least two collector car buyers of more than $45,000 has been sentenced to more than two years in...
Photos courtesy Restore Jeep on Facebook. Just a mile or so. Despite driving 56,000 miles down two continents and up two others in the same Jeep, a single ferry trip negated Loren Upton’s dream of dr...
Books courtesy of Cornell Babcock. Photos by author. First printed back in the late 1950s, this digest-size softcover book was part of the Modern Sports Car Series published by Sports Car Press in Ne...
A Lincoln dual-cowl phaeton parked outside the Marshal Point Lighthouse. Photo courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. The Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) in Owls Head, Maine, is well-known ...
Good example of a bad image: my 2000 BMW R1100R, shot on a cell phone at 700 pixels wide. Photos by author. We look at a lot of classified ads in putting together each day’s Hemmings Daily. In additi...
1957 Jeep FC-150. Photos by the author. Ditch digger. Hay hauler. Plow pusher. Tow truck. Fire fighter. Street sweeper. Like its brethren Jeeps, the Forward Control series of Jeeps filled an almost e...
Hindustan Ambassador at the Red Fort in Old Delhi. Photo by sheeprus. With an internationally recognized concours d’elegance, multiple vintage car clubs and museums, and tens of thousands of collecto...