Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers, except where noted. In the mid- to late 1940s, starry-eyed inventors launched cars of tomorrow seemingly every other week, promising increased safety, better fu...
Photo via WisconsinHistory.org. While discussing the cars used as automotive riprap in the recent Brecksville carspotting post, we heard plenty of fascinating stories of cars sent to the bottoms of v...
1994 Ford F-150 Lighting. Hemmings staff photos. Ford’s Special Vehicle Team (SVT) was busy in 1993, its debut year, launching the Mustang Cobra and Cobra R as send-offs for the Fox-body Mustang. Kno...
Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Agriculture. Disappointed that a recent Environmental Protection Agency ruling effectively barred ethanol-blended fuels beyond E15, several groups of ethanol advocat...
John Athan’s 1929 Ford roadster atop a 1932 Ford frame is historical not only for its appearance along side Elvis Presley in the 1957 film Loving You (The King’s first starring role), but because it ...
Rendering of the Brumos Collection building, set to open in January 2020. Images courtesy The Brumos Collection. From 1971 into 2013, Brumos Racing was one of the most competitive sports car racing t...
Rampsides, Greenbriers, and just about every first- and second-generation Corvair model was in attendance, restored, modified and unrestored originals. For Corvair owners and enthusiasts it was Chris...
Brochure illustrations courtesy of Bruno Vijverman and Lov2XLR8.no. Long before Chrysler fitted a turbine engine to an automobile and shortly after World War II concluded, Rover began experimenting w...
We’ve been hard at work for months. We’ve developed a custom, online auction platform unique to Hemmings. We’ve built out the team. We’ve made a bunch of announcements teasing you that this was comin...
1990 Mazda MX-5 Miata. Photo by Craig Fitzgerald. The Mazda MX-5 Miata debuted to rave reviews at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, and in the 30 years since, praise for the world’s most popular sports car...
The scene of the last point races for the A.A.A. championship changed from the East to the West Coast, to sunny California. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were run at Santa Monica. Both races...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Do we have a treat for you, this week: a terrible movie! Look, there’s an art to a bad movie. It takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to actually endure it from one end to the other, but li...
Photos courtesy Blackhawk Collection. It’s easy to credit (or blame, depending on your tastes) Virgil Exner for designing just about every production and concept car Chrysler built in the Fifties, bu...
1967 Gerhardt Ford Indy Car. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Car owner Walter “Wally” Weir wanted a shot at running competitively in the Indianapolis 500, so for 1967 he purch...
Photo by Tony Harrison. Set up in a rural corner of England to celebrate American-style drag racing, Santa Pod Raceway has also been beset with American-style conflicts over noise with area housing d...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
Photos by the author. In the late 80s, I had the distinct displeasure of seeing a very nicely kept Opel GT meet its likely end. The GT lost a ball joint and the driver’s side front wheel came off at ...
Photo by Bill Smith. Imagine this scenario: It’s a perfect spring day, so you opt to drive your classic car on a series of local errands. Lunch out is part of the plan, but exiting the restaurant, yo...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Fifty years ago, while Alan Bean watched his fellow astronauts walk on the moon knowing that he too would soon leave footprints there...
Co-Founder William Besserdich on the first four-wheel drive steam vehicle. Photo courtesy of the “FWD Four Wheel Drive Museum” Facebook page. The Four Wheel Drive Museum of Clintonville, Wisconsin, w...
1978 Chevrolet LUV advertisement. Images courtesy ProductionCars.com. Today, full-size pickups are the perennial best-sellers for Ford, Chevrolet and FCA. In the 1970s, the sedan and station wagon st...
Web Editor Daniel Strohl’s comprehensive story on the construction and fates of the John Graham-designed factories that Ford built across North America to assemble the Ford Model T took a category-wi...
From the seller’s description: 1960 Volkswagen Beetle Deluxe Sedan Ragtop. Total frame off restoration completed in 2000. Original rebuilt 1.2 litre numbers matching engine. Chassis no. 2 844 247, en...
Photo courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Directors of both the Museum of Bus Transportation and that museum’s host, the AACA Museum, have said that they intend to wrap up the merger of the two mu...