Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. From this once-boutique automaker’s earliest days up to today, Porsche has happily accommodated appeals to personalize its new vehicles...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Civic has been a perennial best-seller for Honda, selling more than 100,000 copies in America every year since 1975, which was just ...
Rummage through a dusty box of memories printed on Kodak paper and you’re bound to remember just about everything your eyes see. Except that in the case of these pictures, uncovered during a recent t...
All photos by Drew Phillips Every year at the Los Angeles Auto Show, local mega dealer Galpin Autos takes over a small space between the two main exhibit halls of the LA Convention Center and turns i...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Volkswagen is now rolling out the eighth generation of its global best seller, the Golf, some 45 years after t...
In the fall of 1955, a buddy and I were going to West Texas College in Canyon, Texas. One afternoon, with nothing to do, we decided to drive to Amarillo, about 20 miles away. After driving around for...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The Renault Alliance is one of those cars that many recall but, it seems, few remember with much fondness. Fun...
Sir Alec Issigonis and his Mini at Longbridge, 1964; i mage courtesy of The British Sports Car Hall of Fame Established three years ago, the Petersburg, Virginia-based The British Sports Car Hall of ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor While the automotive world has largely come around to Saab ‘s way of thinking today – front-wheel drive; safety...
Benoist in a Delage. Photo courtesy Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The streets around the newly constructed Garage Banville in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement were and remain narrow, busy, and flat – ...
Images are courtesy of Mercedes-Benz. It has the distinction of being the most popular Mercedes-Benz flagship of all time: The internally designated 126-chassis Sonderklasse (Special-Class, S-Class f...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News America’s automotive marketplace was changing drastically in the postwar era, and a fast-growing segment of buyers was purchasing vehicl...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News While Peugeot has a presence in nearly 160 countries around the world, this French automaker hasn’t sold cars in America since 1991. In ...
Ever wonder how school buses almost universally came to wear not just yellow but a specific shade of yellow ? Smithsonian Magazine dug up the answer, which has less to do with caprice and more to do ...
American Motors products (and even a couple pre-AMC Nashes) filled the former Chilson AMC dealership in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, for the final Chilson Family Reunion. Photos by David Conwill. We ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Pontiac division of General Motors has been gone for a decade, but even today, it is remembered for its 1960s persona of youth-orien...
Images are courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi Volkswagen Type 1 designer and founder of the eponymous sports car company, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche would have been very proud of the accomplishments of his g...
Steve Hingtgen, founder of Vintage Trailer Supply, has opened a new distribution center and showroom in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in response to a growing market. To celebrate the new center, Vintage Tra...
1977 Citroen GS Special. Photo courtesy of Citroen Media Center. Enthusiasts and owners of French cars are invited to bring their vehicles to the first “French Revolution – Car Show of New England” t...
Photo courtesy Daimler media. Mercedes-Benz was not too happy when they discovered one of their Maryland dealerships was a clothing store, where the only showroom was reserved for men’s suits. And th...
We get the sense (Scotty G., feel free to correct us) that architectural models don’t end up as collectible as, say, the automobilia we’re more familiar with. After all, the models pertain to just on...
1969 Hurst SC/Ramblers at the 2009 Chilson Family Reunion Car Show. The 2019 show promises to be the biggest gathering of the powerful AMC compact. Photos courtesy Kevin Shope For most of the 2000s, ...
Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...
When a sprinkler pipe burst at the National Automotive History Collection in the Detroit Public Library last February, it looked like the NAHC would be out of commission for about six months. This pa...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Consider the state of the American performance car at the turn of the century. Dodge’s V-10-powered Viper was ...