Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Alfa Romeo had a truly enthusiast-focused lineup in 1983, being limited to the two-seat Spider roadster and th...
Images are courtesy of Honda. Dateline, Chicago Auto Show, February 1989: A few booths away from where Mazda was introducing the future of the classic British roadster sat Honda’s answer to the raref...
Photo by Alexander Rabb. In larger cities, automobile rows stretched as long as a mile, chock-full of automobile dealerships with their neon ablaze, service stations with rotating signs, and parts st...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
The change in air pressure from the tornado sucked in the garage doors in this building at Country Classic Cars. Photos by Anita Noel. Just 15 months after a five-alarm fire swept through Hemmings Pr...
Photos by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The downsized A/G-body Monte Carlo was one of the most popular and ubiquitous American cars of the 1980s, and ...
1970 Datsun brochure. Scan from editor’s collection. Truth be told, I’m a “gearhead.” Pure and simple and most probably certifiable as such. Let’s face it — I love cars. From my mid-teens on I was al...
Image courtesy Google Street View. For decades, the former Phoenix Motor Company building in downtown Phoenix presented a blank face to the world. Windows and doors boarded up and stuccoed-over, it s...
Images and video are courtesy of Jaguar Media Jaguar had a well-established reputation for building beautiful, powerful, and luxurious sedans (saloons, to the Brits) that dated back to the 1930s, wit...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Throughout the summer of 1950, residents of Florence, South Carolina, couldn’t help but notice a certain new Oldsmobile constantly driving around town, painted up t...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The Ford Motor Company will debut a new Bronco in 2020, after a 24-year absence, and that model name — used fr...
Image courtesy Google Street View. It first opened as yet another garage that sold Model Ts, one of probably tens of thousands like it across the country, and for almost 100 years, the little dealers...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA. Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II – while a best-selle...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...
Images courtesy Volkswagen USA. It isn’t everyday that an automaker will straight-up compare one of its classic cars to a new model, even making that older example available to the media to drive — n...
Images are courtesy of Audi Tradition, print ad courtesy Production Cars.com. With the hurt that Audi is putting on Mercedes-Benz sales in today’s luxury car market, one has to wonder if any Mercedes...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
Issigonis’s Mini certainly contributed to the development of front-wheel drive, but the true father of today’s transverse-engine front-wheel-drive layout, as Neil Briscoe at Influx argues, is Dante G...
Images courtesy of FCA Heritage. It was at Paris’ world-famous classic-car show, the 43rd edition of Rétromobile, that FCA Heritage announced its exciting new program to sell a select number of resto...
Photography by Richard Lentinello, and courtesy of the Morgan Motor Company. 2018 marks the half-century mark for British automaker Morgan’s traditionally most-powerful model, the eight-cylinder Plus...