1959 American LaFrance “Little Mo.” Photos courtesy Auctions America. Walter Lewis “Army” Armstrong was a mechanical jack-of-all-trades with a particular passion for the fire service. He’d eventually...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Bill Miles’ 1953 GMC pickup. Photos by Daniel Strohl. When Bill Miles feels a travelin’ jones coming on he doesn’t shop around for discount flights and cheap rental cars. Instead he tunes up his 1953...
A single-cylinder 1908 Brush is among the oldest trucks to be displayed. Images courtesy the Gilmore Car Museum For all its popularity today, the pickup truck has not always been highly cherished in ...
This Ford Model T speedster should be out plying the roads but it has insistently been a garage queen since completion. Images by the author. Recently, my Barnstormers clubmate Bryan and I decided to...
Photos by the Hemmings Staff. Detroit may be The Motor City, but since 1900 it is New York, New York, where the world has come to look at the latest and greatest offerings from automakers both foreig...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Holy rear camber, Batman! Remember the Manic GT ? You know, that rear-engined, Renault-powered, fiberglass bodi...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today’s models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...
Though the April 15 deadline for filing individual tax returns is still over a month away, those getting federal or state refunds have probably sent in (or electronically filed) paperwork by now. In ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
The restored 1972 International Fleetstar Blue Hilton transporter. Photos courtesy Team Penske. In 1972, Team Penske debuted an enclosed race car transporter that served as storage, garage and even l...
Covercraft Industries founder Robert Lichtmann died February 20, just two days prior to his 92nd birthday. Lichtmann, who had been retired from the business since 2003, graduated from the Illinois In...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Did the late 1970s represent the peak of “personal luxury” coupe ownership in America? It’s true that, 40 years...
Derek E. Moore. Image courtesy National Corvette Museum. After a vacancy that’s lasted “about a decade,” according to National Corvette Museum Marketing and Communication Manager Katie Frassinelli, t...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As in Europe, vehicles in postwar England were typically small and efficient, sized for that country’s busy city streets and narrow rura...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/ Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras,...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor The smaller Swedish automaker was in a pretty good place in 1985, poised to sell a then-record 39,068 units in the ...
Chris Shires pictured in front of the Holland Historical Trust Museum. Photo courtesy of the Holland Sentinel, 2013. In advance of the retirement of long-time Director Michael Spezia on February 15, ...
Whenever we see images of Mel Stultz and Bobby Green’s “Frozen Few” vintage-motorcycle ice racing, we are reminded of the Swedish Winter Grand Prix (and wonder why we don’t get invited to race old ho...
Images courtesy Edsel & Eleanor Ford House It’s hard to overstate the importance of Edsel Ford to The Motor City. His father Henry may have put the world on wheels, and his son Henry II may have save...