John Cooper Fitch racing a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR at Dundrod in Northern Ireland, 1955; teamed with Stirling Moss, the pair would deliver a win for Mercedes. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archives, un...
Still image from video below. Have you ever wanted to get the inside story regarding how the Camaro was designed and engineered? Now you can by watching this vintage film Camaro, The Car of Today, pr...
1970 Oldsmobile Toronado GT. Photography by author. Normally when I photograph a feature car, I attempt to completely clear the foreground and background of anything that could be a considered a dist...
Art courtesy of the GM Heritage Center. The Corvette endures as one of those special vehicles that’s widely adored by its owners and also revered by many who haven’t yet had the privilege of holding ...
Mazda Classic Automobil-Museum Frey in Augsburg, Germany. Photos courtesy Mazda Europe. The Frey family has been selling Mazda automobiles in the Augsburg, Germany, area since 1978, and it’s amassed ...
Here’s a grab-shot of the Buick on the road in front of a weathered barn I found while taking a drive. If you look closely, you can just see the white cable ties on the rearview mirror. Photos by aut...
Still image from video below. I grew up in the 1970s and recall having Aurora AFX and Tyco slot car sets and later slotless car sets like Lionel’s PowerPassers, where the cars could change lanes. Tra...
Books courtesy of Cornell Babcock. Photos by author. First printed back in the late 1950s, this digest-size softcover book was part of the Modern Sports Car Series published by Sports Car Press in Ne...
Good example of a bad image: my 2000 BMW R1100R, shot on a cell phone at 700 pixels wide. Photos by author. We look at a lot of classified ads in putting together each day’s Hemmings Daily. In additi...
No restoration project is truly complete without a set of the factory-issued tools that originally came with the car. Through the years the tools are usually the first item that gets misplaced and lo...
1965 Chevelle SS, showing its pedestal door mount mirror. Photography by the author. Remember when external mirrors were just used to see behind you? “No, I was always going too fast to care about wh...
Ayrton Senna was one of Formula 1’s shining stars in the modern era, and his ten-year career atop the highest rung of the motorsport ladder was filled with both triumph and tragedy. A new book, Ayrto...
A 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T restomod, owned by Pete and Kari Cellini. Photo courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Fans of vehicles from Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Ram, SRT, Jeep, De Soto and...
Still image from video below. If you were a kid in the 1970s, watching the following vintage SSP Racers commercials will instantly have you revisiting your childhood, but be warned, the jingle from t...
Robert M. Pirsig in 2005. Photo by Ian Glendinning. On the surface, it was a book about a father and son’s journey by motorcycle from Minnesota to Northern California, but on a deeper level, it intro...
Alfa Romeo GTZ Tubolare which raced at Le Mans in 1964. Photos by author. Back in the 1980s resin-based model kits in 1/43 rd scale started coming on strong with car enthusiasts who enjoyed the hands...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It was reported that some Buick executives called the new-for-1979 Riviera “the best Buick ever,” so proud were they of the flagship cou...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Holy rear camber, Batman! Remember the Manic GT ? You know, that rear-engined, Renault-powered, fiberglass bodi...
Still image from video below. Last December, three classic cars (four, counting a 1917 Crane Simplex once owned by J.D. Rockefeller that was trailered for most of the route) left on 12-day, 2,150-mil...
Here’s a small sample from my modest Stewart Warner Green Line gauge collection. Photos by author. While there’s still plenty to do in the garage during winter, the really cold weekends are spent in ...
In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Brought to you by the folks at Ford Motor Company: A brief history of the automobile’s impact on American life. Part III leads with an overview of Henry F...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet’s innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last o...