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 ...
Cadillac Style honored by the Cadillac La Salle Club By Richard Lentinello At the recent Cadillac La Salle Club’s Grand National Meet held in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the distinct honor of being a...
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of The Italian Job. While Butch Cassidy might have been king of the box office in 1969, Charlie Croker was the real anti-hero for lovers of cars and capers. Wit...
Photo by the author. Today, while we celebrate the independence of our country by blowing up a little piece of it, let’s pause to remember the various noteworthy automotive attempts to capitalize on ...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
1947 Hudson Super Six convertible; image courtesy of Raucher Brothers Auctioneers. Thom Bixby may not have been a well-known personality in the general collector car hobby, but within Hudson circles ...
1955 Motorama cutaway displays. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1955, GM’s Motorama was a not-to-be-missed affair for the whole family. In addition to highlighting the latest concept cars from its...
When we stumbled across the survivor Starsky & Hutch Torino in the Hemmings online marketplace this week, we got to thinking more about the love/hate relationship we have with the nameplate. On one h...
1994 Ford Taurus SHO print ad. Image courtesy ProductionCars.com. Today’s consumers, we’re told by automakers, don’t want sedans, opting instead to buy (coincidentally) higher-margin SUVs and trucks....
Kozy Traveler Kar Kamper atop a 1959 Edsel Ranger for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 64,000 miles always stored inside 5 almost new ww radial tires automatic transmission Edsel ...
We love Top 10 lists. Even Forgotten 9 lists. Which brings us to this week’s video: are these the nine most-f0rgotten muscle cars? We’ll admit, there’s at least one oddball in there that we may not e...
Photo by GmanViz. Though Craig Corbell said he got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, he’s decided to drop the project altogether and put the rights for ...
Photo by whizchickenonabun. My native land, Ohio, has eliminated the requirement to have a front license plate as well as a rear plate. Good for you, Buckeyes, I guess. Now tell me why? The push for ...