Photo by Randy Dodson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from reader Vance Mehlenbacher in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, and for obvious reasons we couldn’t pass it up. From all of us at Hemmings, Me...
Despite the very brief reign of Miss Colombia, whose Miss Universe tiara was snatched away moments after erstwhile comedian Steve Harvey read her name as the winner, there was other recent news from ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Undated, but we’ll assume 1939 from that cameo of a ’39 Chevrolet Master 85 or De Luxe Sedan. Just how do petroleum products make the jump from their ba-z...
Ford offered Marmon-Herrington four-wheel drive conversions on select vehicles from the 1930s into the early 1960s. There’s a reason the company isn’t a household name, however: Not only was four-whe...
Bob Bondurant, photo by John Prumatico. All photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum has maintained a Hall of Fame since 1998 to honor individuals who have been influent...
1918 Harley-Davidson board track racer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The first full week of January, 2016, will no doubt have hundreds of motorcycle collectors and investors looking for that next ...
This is the raglan-sleeve jersey that Hometown Jersey made for my car club. A couple of us here are members of a group called the Barnstormers VSC (Vintage Speed Club), and when we decided to have je...
Porsche 962-108C-2. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Delivered to Porsche privateer Jim Busby in time for the opening of the 1985 season, the Porsche 962 carrying chassis tag 962-10...
As renowned a career that Sam Posey made for himself as a race car driver, he’s spent far more time as a motorsports observer – albeit a highly qualified one – either as a commenter or writer, and it...
CSX2287, the first vehicle placed in the National Historic Vehicle Register. Photos by Adam Pepper. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Adam Pepper, a freelance contributor who attended last w...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-bu...
The 2,000,000th Land Rover Defender. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By any measure, it was an unusual auction: A single lot was presented on stage at Bonhams’s Bond Street showroom in London, Eng...
Cover: Patrick Depailler’s Tyrell P34 at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. Photos courtesy of McKlein Publishing. Do you have a passion for racing in the 1950s through the 1970s? An interest in Formula One,...
1972 AMC Javelin AMX print ad, courtesy Production Cars. In 1971, Mark Donahue delivered American Motors’s first Trans-Am championship behind the wheel of a Javelin AMX. The manufacturer wasted no ti...
Pontiac’s mid-engine, rear-drive, two-seat Fiero debuted for the 1984 model year, and consumers immediately began asking for a more powerful engine than the 2.5-liter “Iron Duke” four-cylinder found ...
Photos courtesy Building the Legend, except where noted. Generally the rarer a car was to begin with, the greater likelihood that somebody will eventually replicate it. Indeed, two reproductions set ...
The Lincoln Capri was introduced as the automaker’s upscale offering in 1952. The Capri was one of the finest cars offered in the 1950s and outsold its stablemate, the Cosmopolitan, until the latter’...
You know you’re a certifiable car nut when you start buying parts for vehicles that you don’t even own, but would like to…someday. Like purchasing a pair of jeans two sizes too small in the hopes of ...
In 1971, Chevrolet introduced a new trim level into its C/K pickup series. Though hardly luxurious by today’s standards, the Cheyenne trim included things like additional padding in the seats; more a...
1966 Dodge Charger. Photos courtesy FCA. If ever there was a car with an identity crisis, it was the B-body Dodge Charger. Introduced in 1966 as a sporty personal luxury car, the Charger would evolve...
Pininfarina badge on a Ferrari 330. Photo by Stephen Hennessey. Over its 85-year history, Italy’s Pininfarina has been on the cutting edge of automotive design, penning memorable automobiles for the ...
Introduced in 1940, Buick’s Series 50 Super models featured sleek exterior styling and an interior that provided seating for up to six adults. One range up from the entry-level Series 40 Special mode...
Photo by Vincent Lammin. Other highways came before it. Others stretched farther. Others probably conducted more traffic throughout the country. But no highway gets more recognition or praise than Ro...
1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventiona...
Kott Motorcycles cafe racer based upon a 1973 Honda CB750. Photos by author unless otherwise noted. Since the plunge in motorcycle sales that occurred from 2008 to 2009, the powersports industry has ...