Photo courtesy Italy to Paris World Rally of Texas. The road from Italy to Paris stretches 150 miles, runs through Athens, and is fraught with the potential of getting egged. Or, at least, it does on...
Unrestored 1968 Dodge Charger for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vehicle has an interesting history. I believe I am probably the fourth owner of the car. I think it has alw...
Photos courtesy Jonathan Plotkin. And now the truth comes out. In one comment left on the recent Studebaker pickup find of the day, longtime commenter Danny Plotkin both introduced us to his brother ...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this bulletin! The origin of the alien device that was discovered last December and has since been variously referred to as “Arc 2 D 2” ...
Photos courtesy Kevin Mackay. The years-long ownership dispute over the last unrestored Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette — a car that could be worth millions — may soon come to an end now that a ju...
Circa 1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II spotted south of Molalla, Oregon, on OR 213 on a recent drive. Photos by author. The usual junkers parked beside the roads, with “For Sale” signs in the windows...
We received these photos in an email this week, along with a request for us to help identify the palletized engine featured in them. It looks to be a surplus engine that was possibly purchased at a g...
If there’s a siren song that we’ll all dash our ship upon the rocks over these days, it’s the lure of the “barn find.” We’re all looking for one. Reality TV has placed its bet on them. The auctions s...
Photograph by Thomas A. DeMauro. Most of this past summer was spent searching for my 17-year-old son Tommy’s first car. He’d gotten his license, had a steady part-time job for a year, and had been sa...
What looks like an R2-D2 pulled up from a saltwater sea, weighs as much as the Death Star, and has enough firepower to — literally — fuse together two Tie-Fighter’s? No, it’s not something from the S...
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
The author’s boat and boss on the Sacramento River near Knight’s Landing in Northern California. Photographs by Dan Stoner and Howard Custom Boats. By the early Sixties — let’s say, just before the d...
Look, we’ve been saying for years now that the world is an amazing place, if for no other reason than it has seemed to embrace classic American cars in ways we statesiders could’ve never imagined. Th...
Longtime single family-owned 1964 Peel P50 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Family owned vehicle bought in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada in 1968. Dad saw it in the ...
Cannonball riders prove their road smarts by parking as close as possible to what are affectionately known as the “cleanest rest rooms in Vermont.” Photos by Kurt Ernst. Since 2010, the biennial Moto...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. When Jack Reith’s vision for a newly prominent and profitable Mercury division — led by the fantastic Ghia-built XM-Turnpike Cruiser — collapsed almost as soon as it laun...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
1911 Buick Model 21 Touring (top); 1915 Dodge Touring (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but r...
Back in 1987, my search for a stock muscle car culminated in this 1967 GTO. Its paint was faded and the wrong color, there was front fender and bumper damage, a rusted trunk, and the quarter panels a...
One of the more frequent complaints we hear about new cars is their lack of interesting paint colors. It’s a valid point, since modern roads seem to be filled with an endless array of white, black, g...
1955 Jaguar XK140 SE Michelotti coupe. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Though it came clad in an aluminum body crafted by Giovanni Michelotti, the expectations for the unique – but tired – Jaguar X...
Google’s satellite view tells the same old tale: New houses encroaching on an old junkyard. Hat tip to KSL-TV for breaking this story. As the 1920s aviation craze gave way to the harsh realities of t...
Photo courtesy AmericanAuctioneers.com. From photos, it’s hard to say which of the six Powell pickups coming up for auction is the cream of the crop: One’s missing its windshield, another appears giv...
Fiberfab Jamaican-bodied 1960 MG A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Probably late 1960’s body mounted on a 1960 MGA chassis & running gear. Has original MGA title and 1960 lic...
Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...