1995 Oldsmobile Aurora. Photos courtesy General Motors LLC. As the 1990s dawned, Oldsmobile – then America’s oldest automotive brand – was in crisis. Sales were declining, its buyers were aging, and ...
Photos courtesy Randy Carlson. As a young salesman at the local Volkswagen dealership, Norman Gonzalez started socking away used Beetles as early as 1958, cherrypicking among the trade-ins that came ...
Photos via Historics Auctioneers. Automakers can get into some unexpected business models once they leave their original niches. Some become breweries while others go on to real estate ventures. Talb...
Although it bore almost no relationship to the road-going car, the Corvette GTP of 1984-1988 certainly saw a lot of racing and bore the Corvette name with pride. The GTP Corvette was borne in an effo...
All photos courtesy Bonhams. Amid all the uncertainties in automotive history, there exist at least a few undisputed facts. For instance, Ford never built a production line vehicle with its legendary...
On the East Coast, car weather is an actual season: There’s a beginning, middle, and end. Just like “Winter Project” is also a season that takes up the months between car weathers, these are the cycl...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum, except where noted. Of the three cars in those famous June 1953 photographs of the first Corvettes coming off the Flint, Michigan, assembly line, only one st...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. It’s easy to conceive of history as a straight-line narrative, in which one thing inevitably leads to another and so on to create our modern world. Excep...
This 1936 Pierce-Arrow is one of three in the JAB Collection coming up for sale June 15. All photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions, LLC. In the past 16 years, if you were after a part or a project car...
Images courtesy of obs/Sono Motors GmbH and GM Media Sono Motors — a “mobility provider” founded by three youthful forward-thinkers in 2016, in Munich, Germany — recently announced that production of...
Photo by Marcin Szala. In late March 1919, 10 vehicles rolled off the assembly line in the newly renamed town of Kopřivnice in the newly established country of Czechoslovakia bearing the newly coined...
While there’s nothing better than some great historic celluloid to get our little black hearts pumping, sometimes a video that’s nothing more than a pile of great old photos stitched together with a ...
2019 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport convertible. Photo by author. Change is coming to the world of the Corvette: On July 18, the world will watch slack-jawed as a new, mid-engined Corvette appears. I...
From the seller’s description: 1970 Porsche 914-6 “Sixer” Documentation dating back to first owner “Michael Myers”. Tangerine Orange over Black, this awesome and updated 914-6 has been owned by PCA m...
Images courtesy Zero Labs. As Adam Roe sees it, the fates of the internal combustion engine and the older vehicles that rely on it for power are sealed. Collector cars will be parked for good, only d...
Photo by Chris Bojanower. Like pretty much every other motorsport, demolition derbies have rules and they have winners and losers. As a result, demo derby competitors spend an inordinate amount of ti...
Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...
The Rivian electric pickup. Photos by Kurt Ernst and Mark J. McCourt. Our primary focus at Hemmings Motor News is on classic cars, but once each year a few staffers venture down to the Big Apple to v...
John Bishop (L) with Bill France Sr. at Daytona International Raceway. Photos courtesy IMSA. By the time John Bishop resigned as executive director of the Sports Car Club of America in 1969, he’d ama...
It’s no secret that we’re losing dragstrips all across this great land. Why is that? Land values increasing? Housing developments being allowed to go up near tracks? People less interested in drag ra...
In the seminal film, “Pulp Fiction,” the question is asked of us: are you an Elvis man or a Beatles man? That might seem like no big deal, but the answer really does define your movement across and y...
What nonsense is this? Welp, if you grew up in the mid-century suburbs, the idea those developers had in mind for you was…”same.” Same houses on uniform plots, same driveways, same mailboxes, complia...
Image courtesy Google Street View, August 2018. Five years ago, the future for the sales and service building at the former Ford Highland Park assembly plant — where the company first implemented its...
Image courtesy Google Maps. While it’s not particularly fair to say that racing hasn’t taken place at the Milwaukee Mile in recent years, the drag racing and sports car club racing that the track hos...
From the seller’s description: This 1985 Toyota Celica GTS ConvertIble is an unbelievable find! One owner family. Original paint with a couple of imperfections. Great condition top is in great shape ...