Matt Anderson at The Henry Ford, which has a Star Trek exhibit running from this weekend through September, took a look at the various classic cars that appeared through the original series’ run. Who...
Unfinished 1999 Xanthos 23 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: faithful Lotus 23 replica rolling chassis with modern Honda B18C1 engine. Comes with engine computer and wiring har...
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...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
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...
1985 Tritan A2 Aero Car. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. According to futurist predictions in the 1960s, flying cars would be commonplace in the 1980s. That vision never came to pass, but one compa...
From the seller’s description: GR Auto Gallery is pleased to present this 2005 Meyers Manx SR-2 for your consideration. Styling for the SR-2 was conceived by Bruce Meyers and Stewart Reed. He did not...
Unrestored 1981 Avanti II for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is really in pristine condition. Beautiful British racing green with camel leather Recaro seats. Upholstery...
Mercedes-Benz C 111-II experimental vehicle on the test track at the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz Classic. Officially, Mercedes-Benz remained retired from racing; ...
Image courtesy Brubaker Box Fans on Facebook. Even the people behind the Brubaker Box didn’t quite know how to position the people mover. Was it a minivan before the term took hold? A surf wagon? A c...
In the years since his death, Fred Rogers has been hailed as a champion for educational television, a practitioner of radical kindness and acceptance, and a balm for the ills of our modern world. He ...
Hand-built 1959 Crosley-based special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very attractive styling for a hand-crafted one-off from California. Designed and built by a sports car e...
1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...
The TDX at the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Hemmings file photo. Space Age materials. New units of measurement for speed. Retro rockets. Pat Amendolia’s TDX encapsulated his vision o...
Volkswagen-based 1969 Autodynamics Hustler for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Lotus Replicar 1969 (Autodynamics Hustler) Porsche 912 engine. Runs good, needs brake work and pain...
Photo courtesy State Library of Western Australia. Apologies for leading with a cheap-shot Lucas joke, but you knew they were coming. After all, if a lighting and electrics automotive supplier best k...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many, land-speed racing is an open-ended license to innovate and push the bounds in the pursuit of speed. Bill Burke took that freedom to heart over a multi-decade ...
The Corvette Hall of Fame. All images courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Corvette Hall of Fame, located at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, exists to recognize those w...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. To many Corvette owners, the idea, let alone the existence, of a Corvette driven by its front wheels likely amounts to blasphemy. To John Jacobi, it was just...
From the seller’s description: 1958 Volkswagen Alken D2 Roadster , The 1958 Alken Roadster was developed by some Aerospace Engineers for the VW chassis in Venice California. Maybe 25 cars in total we...
Gasser-style 1986 Fiberfab MGTD for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Gasser, 355 Ci, 4bolt block, block is O ringed, line board ,tork plate honed,decked, TRW froged pistons,H beam...
The print says June 1970. And is there a better snapshot of what life was like for a dyed-in-the-seaweed-flames gearhead and muscle car freak than this? CHANGE. OUR. MIND. But seriously, just drink i...
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when drag racing was really, really cool. Drivers were gladiators, teams were small bands of nomads, motel parking lots were all-night parties, and the ...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. With tiny Beetles proliferating across America, Cliff Hall wanted to build a true “people’s car”: one designed not only for economically disadvantaged to b...