How gas rationing worked during World War II
Long before the OPEC gas crisis of the 1970s, Americans who owned cars in the 1940s were limited to the amount of gasoline they could buy due to the consequences of World War II. Starting in early 19...
Long before the OPEC gas crisis of the 1970s, Americans who owned cars in the 1940s were limited to the amount of gasoline they could buy due to the consequences of World War II. Starting in early 19...
Some people think that cars might be too dangerous, expensive, and bad for the environment. What may surprise you is that some people thought that back in 1966. The Great Love Affair, preserved and p...
Eight tiny reindeer? As if. The dude’s obviously loaded if he can a) travel around the world on a whim, and b) give good boys and girls whatever consumer item they want. Probably because of all that ...
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 ...
Building an engine is the pinnacle of automotive wrenching. Nothing else is so essential to the soul of a car. It’s a straightforward, yet intricate, puzzle. Putting an engine together correctly is m...
Add a pair of SUVs, and winter garage space is… tight. Photo by author. Winter has already descended on southwestern Vermont, weeks before the calendar makes it official. The convertible is already t...
Images are courtesy of Elias Olsen and the Outer Docs Film Festival Striving for excellence is a most human trait, one that isn’t bound by limitations either inherent or imposed. Why should the loss ...
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...
With a deep-seated passion and life-long appreciation for automotive literature, this soft-spoken gentleman was a friend to everyone who ever met him. On Friday, November 15, the collector-car hobby ...
If you’ve read our story about the one-off 1973 Dodge Challenger presented to the winner of The Colonial, a Charles-Schwab-sponsored PGA Tour event held in Texas, you already know about how the car w...
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...
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...
1994 Dodge Ram 1500. Photo via Chrysler Media. The 1994 Dodge Ram influenced modern truck design away from the boxy appliance look of the Seventies and Eighties and toward today’s hyper-masculine, do...
Back in 1980, Octopus Books Limited of London, England, started publishing a series of single-marque history books on a variety of automobiles. This was the time when the publishing of serious automo...
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 ...
2001 Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. Those of us in the car hobby may not agree on everything, but one thing typically binds us together: “the list.” We all have “the list,” one tha...
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...
The sign in 2006. Photo by the author. Other than the long dark lines that racers follow on their quests for speed and a few drainage ditches, the Bonneville Salt Flats differs from other federal lan...
Courtesy of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. The organizers at the Larz Anderson Museum will host a swinging good time to close out the summer. You are invited to bring your pre-WWII cars and period fa...
For perhaps the best coverage of the recent Citroen centennial bash, we have to look no further than Citroenvie! a huge conglomeration of Citroëns of every model. The assembly of Traction Avants alon...
The scene of the last point races for the A.A.A. championship changed from the East to the West Coast, to sunny California. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were run at Santa Monica. Both races...
Can you imagine buying tires for your car knowing that they are only guaranteed to last 5,000 miles? Considering that the average American motorist drives 12,000 to 15,000 miles every year, that mean...
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...
Race car driver Joan Newton Cuneo. Photo courtesy of the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s Facebook page. To honor the upcoming 100th anniversary of American women gaining the right to vote, the Saratoga ...