Henry Ford, undoubtedly, helped to shape the automobile industry and the peoplescape of southeast Michigan with his offer of a $5 per day wage in 1914. It more than doubled the existing wages and led...
Mostly original 1913 International Harvester MWX Autowagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2-cylinder Horizontally-opposed 2.6 liter motor 2-speed manual transmission with re...
Photo by Bierlos. Over the last century, Citroën has introduced a number of of significant automotive innovations from front-wheel drive to the company’s signature hydropneumatic suspension. That leg...
Photos courtesy British Motor Industry Heritage Trust. You’re running Britain’s most prolific automaker, and some guy knocks on your door asking you to build a two-wheeled car stabilized by a gyrosco...
The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...
Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. These days, the automobile company that operates out of just one assembly plant is rare. A century ago, however, it was commonplace, and like many other automobile ...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Though it has sat vacant for the last dozen or so years following a blockbuster $10 million sale, the former Ford factory on Pittsburgh’s Baum Boulevard, an anchor ...
1913 Stutz Series B Bearcat. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1911, the Ideal Motor Car Company — renamed Stutz in 1912 — demonstrated the durability of its products by finishing 11th in the inau...
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...
Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...
Any student of the U.S. Interstate Highway System can tell you that the seeds for that network of roads were planted in the summer of 1919, when Dwight Eisenhower participated in a U.S. Army Motor Tr...
CPRR tunnels number 6 (foreground), 7, and 8, with the 1914 re-routing of the Lincoln Highway to their left. Photos by Trey Pitsenberger, except where noted. While the threat of having your fellow tr...
Photo via Indiana Landmarks. After multiple considered and discarded ideas over the last several years, the Indianapolis plant that once churned out Ford Model Ts is slated for transformation into ap...
Images courtesy Vanderbilt Cup Races. A “mecca of motordom” is how one pundit put it. Nearly 900 acres of now prime Long Island real estate dedicated to racing automobiles at a time before many peopl...
Photos by the author. October, with its often rainy days, may still be a lovely month for open-air nature lovers, and also classic cars’ enthusiasts may have their good occasions to see some really i...
Restored Buda-engined 1919 Nash Quad for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This truck, like all Nash-Quads is four wheel drive and has four wheel brakes. Some models even had four-...
In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren’t for sale, the things that people for one reason or anothe...
Prologue It was early morning and the rising sun cast a long misshapen shadow across US 1. At a glance it looked like two gents in frock coats and caps were hunched over the darkened silhouette of a ...
1908 Ford Model T. Photo courtesy Ford Media. Ask old-timers what they’ve run their Model T on beside gasoline, and the responses will start to sound like the list of potential fuels for the Chrysler...
Editor’s note: Jim Allen and John Glancy’s forthcoming book, the International Scout Encyclopedia , promises to cover everything a Scout enthusiast would want to know (and more). Octane press has sen...
There are no records to tell what coachwork once adorned this 1910 De Dion-Bouton for sale on Hemmings.com – only to tell that the car emerged from the factory as a bare chassis – so during its resto...
Out of the recent spate of stories about the five-year anniversary of the tsunami that hit Japan came this rather special one, highlighted by Japanese Nostalgic Car, about a one-owner unrestored 1971...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...