Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
Photo by Nyttend. Abandoned more than a decade ago, the once-condemned former Crosley headquarters and factory in Cincinnati is headed for an uncertain future now that a developer has scuttled its $3...
Images courtesy Volkswagen USA. It isn’t everyday that an automaker will straight-up compare one of its classic cars to a new model, even making that older example available to the media to drive — n...
Photos by Richard Lentinello. In the 1950s, Chrysler developed cars using a functional structure. People specialized, so that one person might design nothing but axles. The chassis, body, electrical,...
Images are courtesy of Audi Tradition, print ad courtesy Production Cars.com. With the hurt that Audi is putting on Mercedes-Benz sales in today’s luxury car market, one has to wonder if any Mercedes...
Photo courtesy FCA. Five years after closing the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Chrysler’s parent company has decided to repurpose the former home of Dodge Viper production into an exhibit space for the ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for...
For automotive enthusiasts, nothing could be more fascinating than to see cars being built. From piles of raw materials sitting on a factory floor to the fully assembled automobile rolling off the as...
Images courtesy of FCA Heritage. It was at Paris’ world-famous classic-car show, the 43rd edition of Rétromobile, that FCA Heritage announced its exciting new program to sell a select number of resto...
Photo by Cliff. Following a decade of inactivity and a multi-million-dollar sale, the former GM assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, which once employed as many as 7,000 workers, will soon be red...
Photography by Richard Lentinello, and courtesy of the Morgan Motor Company. 2018 marks the half-century mark for British automaker Morgan’s traditionally most-powerful model, the eight-cylinder Plus...
Photo by Joe Clark for EPA’s Documerica, via Library of Congress. Springwells was aptly named. Situated along the Rogue River just southwest of Detroit’s city limits, the farming community operated a...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor “The shape of things to come.” Indeed, the styling of Triumph’s final sports car would remain timely more than ...
Images are courtesy Groupe Renault. This is a car that, in 25 years’ time, American enthusiasts will be lining up to import. It’s the 2018 Alpine A110, and while it shares its name and lines with the...
Photos courtesy General Motors. In March 2015, Chevrolet’s Performance Build Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, reintroduced the Engine Build Experience for buyers of the seventh-generation Corvette’...
Image via Google Street View. The cars going into the in-development Hackett Auto Museum might be largely of standard fare – a Model T, a Model A, a Mustang – but the history baked into the walls of ...
All materials courtesy General Motors. Editor’s Note Thanks to Harold Kie for sending along the raw materials for this week’s Hemmings In-Depth: An entire advance press kit for the 1984 Pontiac Fiero...
Photo by JGBMLG. In the years after Fisher Body removed all Fleetwood body production from that company’s original home in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, to Detroit, residents of the small town reportedly ...
Photo via Indiana Landmarks. After multiple considered and discarded ideas over the last several years, the Indianapolis plant that once churned out Ford Model Ts is slated for transformation into ap...
Portion of the Willow Run bomber and assembly plant. Image via Yankee Air Museum video. Of its original 5-million square feet, only about 144,000 square feet of the Willow Run bomber plant — which la...
Honda celebrates the first Japanese automobile fully assembled in the U.S.—an Accord sedan—on November 1, 1982, at their Marysville, Ohio, plant. Images courtesy of Honda. There was a time when buyin...
After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...
New Corvettes roll off the Bowling Green assembly line in 2015. Photo courtesy General Motors. On July 28, production at GM’s Bowling Green Assembly Plant, home of the Chevrolet Corvette, was halted ...
Holden HT Monaro. Images courtesy Holden. As Holden prepares to end production in Australia for good later this month, the GM subsidiary has planned a number of ways to remind Australians of all the ...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...