Renault 11 taxi from “A View To A Kill.” Image courtesy IMCDB. Doesn’t matter how much money you have in your bank account, there’s always gonna be an old car you can’t afford. At least, not on your ...
Photo by author. I have a confession to make: I am a tool hoarder. Were I loyal to one brand of automobile or motorcycle, or even a single nationality, this would pose less of a problem, but over the...
389-cu.in. Tri-Power V-8 beneath the hood of a 1964 Pontiac GTO. Photo by author. On July 5, automaker Volvo Cars announced that every vehicle it launches after 2019 will be powered — in part or whol...
Photo courtesy BridgetMGTD. Even though cars are nothing more than machines, their growing complexity has led plenty of drivers, mechanics, and enthusiasts to believe there’s something more going on ...
Dashboard of the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider. Photo by author. For most Hemmings readers (and staffers), it’s hard to get worked up about new cars. Perhaps it’s the fact that anything interesting is priced ...
While taking a break from his Project Apollo, Joe Essid pondered whether there could be any more archetypal car song than Rush’s “ Red Barchetta.” “It has everything a song about car’s should have: a...
Good example of a bad image: my 2000 BMW R1100R, shot on a cell phone at 700 pixels wide. Photos by author. We look at a lot of classified ads in putting together each day’s Hemmings Daily. In additi...
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...
1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Hitting the open road in the family car used to be an American institution, and for many, a rite of passage. Today, cheap airfare and ever...
We were south of Chicago on I-80, in triple-digit temperatures and bumper-to-bumper traffic, when my fuel-injected 1977 Volkswagen Scirocco sputtered, coughed, and then died in the center lane. The w...
1985 Ford LTD LX. Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1984 and 1985, Ford build a four-door, 5.0-liter Mustang. It wasn’t called a Mustang, of course, but it carried a Mustang V-8 (albeit the de-tuned one that ca...
Pogue carburetor patent design. Or is it? Though we gearheads are enlightened animals, able to rationally troubleshoot the squeaks, groans, misfires, and other glitches in the machines we operate, we...
First, second, and third-generation Mazda Miatas. Photo courtesy Mazda USA. It happened again today. After two days of harping by a reader on the Mazda Miata’s “blandness,” I felt compelled to chime ...
1976 Plymouth Arrow brochure, courtesy of PaintRef.com . Cursed with a passion for automobiles from birth, the countdown to my first car began years before I earned a driver’s license. Used cars came...
1996 Ford Bronco Eddie Bauer. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company, unless otherwise noted. News broke earlier this month that two Ford models no longer sold in North America will be returning in the c...
Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bot...
Field mouse. Photo by Martyn Fletcher. Last week, I decided that the two-year-old cabin air filter in my truck had served out its useful life and was due for replacement. Swapping it out was an easy ...
We’ve got a lot more photochops bookmarked where that last batch came from, but rather than pushing more wild woolly flights of fancy on you too soon, we thought we’d take a tangent here and ask what...
Jeff Yost’s 1976 Corvette. Those tires were manufactured in March of 1993, 23 years ago. Photos by Jeff Yost, unless otherwise noted. Last week, Hemmings reader Jeff Yost and I were discussing the su...
Used car lot, Lancaster, Ohio, 1938; it’s a safe bet that buyers still argued about a $29 selling price. Photo by Ben Shahn, from Library of Congress archives. There aren’t many universal truths in t...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
Pandora, my 2000 BMW R1100R. Photo by author. Spring came early to Vermont this year, and with 60-degree temps in the forecast, I opted to wake Pandora, the name I’ve taken to calling my oft-troubles...
A Porsche 911 is pulled from a burned Passport Transport van. Photo courtesy WKRN-TV. On February 15, a Passport Transport trailer hauling a load of collector cars caught fire on I-65 in Williamson C...
Sunset on Highway 50. Photos courtesy Travel Nevada, unless otherwise noted. Some old friends drove up for a visit last weekend, and though our Vermont home is a mere three hours from theirs in New J...
1925 Bugatti Type 35 at Gooding’s 2013 Monterey sale. Photos by author. It’s said that winning a significant lottery jackpot is the surest way to financial, moral and spiritual ruin, but just for onc...