Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
From the seller’s description: For sale is a numbers matching 1976 Lancia Fulvia 1.3S Series II Coupe 3 in excellent overall condition. This car was originally delivered in Chieti, Abruzzo Italy and ...
From the seller’s description: 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Factory Convertible added Wood *Over $50,000 Invested (Minus the Labor on Wood) “First and Only made”- “I made it” 1950 Mercury V8 Flathead Motor...
Photos courtesy Paul Schilperoord and Lorenz Schmid. These days it looks more like a child’s drawing of a genericar come to life with its inartful blend of boxy body and round hood, but a pair of Eur...
Photo courtesy Charles Rosenblum. As a teenager in a small Ohio town, I had plenty of enthusiasm for cars, but not much exposure to exciting ones. In the early 1980s, long before the internet, inform...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Polarizing? Sure. Criticized? Of course. But the Petersen Automotive Museum’s undulating steel ribbon facade can now be described as award-winning after th...
1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Hitting the open road in the family car used to be an American institution, and for many, a rite of passage. Today, cheap airfare and ever...
Old and new: A 125 S replica and a 2017 La Ferrari Aperta outside the factory. Images courtesy Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari never envisioned himself an industrialist. He was, first and foremost, a driver, w...
Still image from video hosted on the Internet Archive. Most drivers’ educational films of the 1960s that I’m familiar with were produced by smaller companies and they sustained a serious tone, which ...
Photo via E Hayes Motorworks Collection. Partly the result of rulebook changes, partly the result of Burt Munro’s sheer determination and resourcesfulness, and maybe partly the result of the respect ...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...
Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. Industrial parks may take the place of airstrips in the East Coast Timing Association’s ongoing search for a new venue – a search that has now postponed ...
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...
1970 Ford Maverick, to be featured in the upcoming Detroit Underdogs exhibit. Photo courtesy AACA Museum. American automakers occasionally hit an out-of-the-park home run, producing cars with appeal ...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200-mph Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200 MPH Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Photo courtesy Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. The Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the world’s longest-running motoring event, and an annual celebration of the gift of freed...
1965 Jaguar E-type Series 1 fixed head coupe, the latest in Jaguar’s “Reborn” program. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Following the successful launch of factory-restored Land Rover Series I and Ra...
Ford Motor Company is poised to launch a new division to build fully electric vehicles, Hemmings Motor News News has learned. The new division will be called e-Dsel, putting a high-tech spin on a wid...
Photos courtesy New York governor’s office. Rather than peruse the latest executive cars and limousines for its officials and diplomats to wave at crowds in future parades, the state of New York deci...
“It will be a sorry day when we no longer do something for the hell of it,” Donald Campbell said as he eyed another run at the world land-speed record in 1960. Then again, Campbell had the backing of...
M4 Shermans at the Cleveland Tank Plant. For an event that some are describing as the largest-ever (peacetime, presumably) gathering of armored military vehicles, the Military Vehicle Preservation As...
Image courtesy Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society. The man who lent his name to the General Motors of the trailer industry will also take a place among the automobile industry’s pioneers later this ...
1932 Peerless V-16 prototype. Photo by the author. From the birth of the American auto industry to the coming of the Model T, Detroit played second fiddle to Cleveland when it came to auto manufactur...
On the trailer going to the shop. Just love those narrow whitewalls! Photos by author. I have come to and passed the turning point in the Corvair project: More things are now going in or on the car t...