We recently came across some of G. Gordon Davis’ renderings on Facebook and not long after landed hip-deep in an amazing collection of Chrysler, Corvette, and various other concept renderings from th...
Last weekend’s Iso Lele 50th anniversary celebration in Bresso brought out a good number of Isos ( translation ) to the company’s former headquarters, only a handful of them Leles. Iso enthusiasts ho...
Last weekend’s Iso Rivolta 50th anniversary celebration in Bresso brought out a good number of Isos ( translation ) to the company’s former headquarters, only a handful of them Rivoltas. Iso enthusia...
Courtesy of The Henry Ford The board at the Henry Ford Museum announces the acquisition of a major collection of photographs, menus, clothing and other items related to American diners. The collectio...
The Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine this week looked into why Corvettes and astronauts from the Right Stuff era are forever linked. After Shepard joined NASA, he struck up a friendship with Genera...
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...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
The Henry Ford. Photo by Jim Culp. Calling it “one of the most historical and game-changing partnerships” in the history of the institution, The Henry Ford officials on Tuesday announced a $5-million...
Photo by OZinOH. Ol’ Henry’s name remains in that of the museum he founded, but now he shares it with a few more words, as museum officials revealed last week. The decision to rename the Henry Ford M...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
Photo by Scott Crawford. Almost a decade ago, we started up the Hemmings Nation pool on Flickr for our readers to share their favorite car photos, and sometime in recent weeks we had our 100,000th im...
Date: spring 1964 Location: Luigi Chinetti Motors, 780 Eleventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York City Source: Dave Friedman via The Henry Ford on Flickr What do you see here? Editor’s Note: For the Ferrar...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Our impulse to pull back the curtain, to see the humble and real genesis of our fantasies, where does that come from? Are we not impressed enough with the film that we...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...
Photo by Matt Litwin. Nobody couldn’t have predicted that the stratospheric success of the 1965 Mustang would lead to direct competition: Everybody suddenly wanted a part of the youth market that Lee...
According to the Showvans blog, the recent Cleveland Autorama’s show-within-a-show dedicated to custom vans was the largest indoor van show in more than 30 years. Also shows how far custom vanning ha...