Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...
1969 AMC AMX for sale on Hemmings.com, with the 390 cu. in. V-8 and optional Go Pack. From the seller’s description: Many hard core car buffs my not realize the AMX, shattered 106 national, and inter...
1969 AMC AMX for sale on Hemmings.com, with the 390 cu. in. V-8 and optional Go Pack. From the seller’s description: Many hard core car buffs my not realize the AMX, shattered 106 national, and inter...
Photo via BloodhoundLSR.com. All winter, the Bloodhound land-speed racing team has made it clear that they won’t be able to return to South Africa’s Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world land-speed rec...
If you’re not into pre-WWII cars, or even if you are, you might expect the proprietor of an outfit specializing in early Fords to be at least 80 years old. After all, conventional wisdom says Model T...
“ Drive Buddy Boy! ” by Ben Addison. The images of cars in motion that Ben Addison paints come across as both familiar and jarring. Sure, the settings, the lighting, even the cars themselves tickle a...
All photos by Turbo Tara Media Imagine building a custom car that can take several years and thousands of hours of work, but you can’t tell anyone. Whether owner, fabricator, or a supplier of a compo...
Editor’s Note: For the 68th year, Autorama descended upon downtown Detroit with some of the most outrageous, imaginative, and meticulously created vehicles ever seen. The highlight every year is the ...
The original Acura NSX was a shot across the bow of the world of supercars, then the exclusive domain of European automakers whose names ended in vowels. That original Japanese supercar combined the ...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Museum of Art. After all the talk of streamlined rear-engine cars in America during the Thirties – all the renderings and sketches and homebuilt prototypes and Stout Scarabs...
Photo credit: James Banks Photography via Flickr ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Imagine if the Chevrolet Celebrity was rear-wheel-drive and friendly to small-block swaps. That’s kind of what the Holden Commodore w...
Ford Probe I. Photo via Christie’s. They both arose from the same economic factors and in the same general time period. They had some styling similarities, emblematic of that time period. They both r...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
Once upon a time, there was a barbaric sport known as “ferret legging,” covered in some detail by Outside magazine in 1983. The gist of it is this: Participants, exclusively men, don baggy white trou...
As we mentioned in our recent story about Holden concept cars, General Motors announced plans to wind down sales, engineering, and design operations for its Holden brand in Australia and New Zealand ...
All images courtesy GM Media. For a division that built distinct production cars for nearly 70 years, Holden – which GM officially terminated over the weekend – built surprisingly few concept cars. T...
When it comes to “original hybrid” automobiles, forget everything related to the gas-electric, efficiency-minded commuter cars of today. We’ll forgive you if your mind runs to the modern performance ...
From left: Malcolm Durham, Leonard W. Miller, Wendell Scott, and Ronald Hines at a meeting of the Black American Racers Association. Image via Silent Thunder. With the release of the Adam Carolla-dir...
I need a vintage four-wheel-drive in my life. But do I want a truck, a wagon, or a CJ? This was the Willys lineup for 1951: Truck, Station Wagon, and CJ3B. Images via The Old Car Manual Project, and ...
Cell phone service had gone from spotty to non-existent several miles back up the dirt road. Despite the Lemons Rally route book’s assurances that the check point wasn’t far off, the deeper into the ...
Look at the direction-changing driving lights on this 1930 Duesenberg Model J Berline at the Worldwide Auctioneers sale in Scottsdale, Arizona. Get up close to an old car and all kinds of details pop...
This is what organization looks like. I have never been this organized in the garage. Like single socks that disappear in the laundry, nuts, bolts, and fasteners have a way of walking off when you’re...
Photo Credit: Bentley When the Bentley Continental R was introduced at the 1991 Geneva Motor Show, it was something of a shock. It was imperious and menacing, with a windblown rectilinearity that did...
1995 Chrysler Atlantic. All photos courtesy FCA Media. Dodge had the Viper. Plymouth the Prowler. It only made sense that Chrysler would gain its own retro-influenced concept-turned-production flagsh...
There’s something to be said for knowing what you like, and going deep. Fred Mandrick’s collection concentrates exclusively on 1968-’72 Oldsmobile A-bodies. Not even four-doors and Vista Cruisers—jus...