Steve McDonald speaks at a SEMA Town Hall meeting. Photo courtesy SEMA. Steve McDonald’s name may not be familiar to everyone in the old car hobby, but his battles against overbearing governmental re...
Photos courtesy Steve Buggy. For now, it might very well be a “dirty car that looks like an old shoe,” but the 1947 Davis three-wheeler prototype that just hit the market may be the most significant ...
1977 Dodge Power Wagon Adventurer Club Cab. Photo courtesy FCA. Here in America, we count the bald eagle as our national bird and baseball as our national pastime. The slot for national vehicle — if ...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...
Photos courtesy Mecum auctions. One depicts a sea voyage complete with krakens while another paints a picture of dueling wizards atop dragons. Others sport portholes of varying sizes along with spoil...
Robert Yates in 2010. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. Legendary engine builder and successful NASCAR team owner Robert Yates passed away on Monday, October 2, succumbing to liver cancer first diagnosed in 201...
Photo courtesy National Corvette Homecoming. Founded in 1981, the same year Corvette production moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the National Corvette Homecoming (NCH) is a...
Pirelli Cinturato CA67, part of the newly updated Collezione product line. Images courtesy Pirelli. In recent years, passenger-car tires have made sizeable gains in performance and safety, good news ...
Photo by Becky Lai. While the Environmental Protection Agency has done so slower than anticipated, it has followed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for steadily increasing amounts of ethanol ...
Hmmm, you’re thinking, a Chevrolet tractor? That was our reaction too when Diecast Direct’s Logan Skeele sent us these photos shot at Southern Indiana’s Lanesville Heritage Weekend in Lanesville, Sep...
1971 Austin Sprite. Photo by David LaChance. Even though the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport rejects the term “classic car,” it set a de facto 40-year cutoff age defining them this month as...
Derek Bell at Sebring in 2008. Photo by Freewheeling Daredevil. Derek Bell has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a total of five times, the 24 Hours of Daytona three times, and the World Sportscar Champion...
Photo by author. Longtime readers of the Hemmings Daily will recall me mentioning that my parents owned a 1965 GTO when I was very young. It was Burgundy with a black interior, the 360-hp Tri-Power e...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
Brochure images from the collection of Terry Shea. It’s little remembered today, but the original Comet — sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships as a standalone model for two model years — was inte...
From the seller’s description: This is a very original 1955 Desoto Fireflight Sportsman Two Door Hardtop . It is in excellent condition and can be driven anywhere. It has the original interior includ...
Photo from the Hemmings archives. Lay down a coat of gold first, then red atop that, then follow that with a clear coat with some red mixed into it and you get deep, delicious glowing paint known the...
Images via Google Street View. While the Antique Automobile Club of America’s current digs have an undeniably exceptional provenance as a former dormitory for the Milton Hershey School, they lack in ...
1972 Datsun 510 two-door sedan. Photos by Daniel Strohl, unless otherwise noted. In the 1960s, Japanese carmakers battled for respectability with U.S. consumers, who typically viewed their wares as l...
Photo by Matthew Exley. “In traffic.” Two words that could have spared motorsports across Europe from what some have called an “existential threat” brought on by a European high court ruling three ye...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Here’s an ad that will get you thinking. GM’s redesigned muscle cars from each division are all in one place and all with one owner — cert...
Photo by Jeff Koch. “Nobody but nobody will ever put a cartoon bird on one of my cars.” The threat from Dick Macadam was real enough that he poked an executive vice president of Chrysler in the chest...
Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Image courtesy The Jim Clark Trust. Jim Clark, widely regarded as one of the best racing drivers ever to compete, is today honored by a single-room museum in the town of Du...
Image courtesy Iso Millennium Committee. For nearly 20 years, a group of Iso enthusiasts has worked to establish a museum dedicated to the auto and motorcycle builder in its former headquarters and f...