Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Images courtesy The Jim Clark Trust, unless otherwise noted. Jim Clark was, by most period accounts, the best racing driver of his day, and quite possibly the best of all t...
With five cars shown on the box – four caught in dramatic mid-jump – Topper Toys didn’t want any confusion as to what was provided, so the wording plainly states, “This set includes one Johnny Lightn...
With five cars shown on the box – four caught in dramatic mid-jump – Topper Toys didn’t want any confusion as to what was provided, so the wording plainly states, “This set includes one Johnny Lightn...
With auctions, seminars, tours, test drives and car shows leading up to the main event, there is no shortage of activities on Amelia Island in the days before Sunday’s concours d’elegance, this year ...
Images courtesy Wellborn Muscle Car Museum. In January 2015, and again in January 2017, Tim and Pam Wellborn offered cars from their Alexander City, Alabama, Muscle Car Museum for sale at Mecum’s Kis...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; courtesy of Bruce Zahor Controversy: Thy name is Camargue. Monocles everywhere went dangling when Rolls-Royce introduced its new flagsh...
Artwork provided by the Automotive History Preservation Society. This ad makes me envious that I wasn’t around to participate in the contest, but I can’t change the fact that it took place six years ...
Covercraft Industries founder Robert Lichtmann died February 20, just two days prior to his 92nd birthday. Lichtmann, who had been retired from the business since 2003, graduated from the Illinois In...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. For all those intrigued by Part I of this trilogy which we screened last year, we present, at long last, Part II. This eight-minute segment continues the ...
Magazine ad from the author’s collection. Remember the scene in the movie Viva Las Vegas when Elvis and Cesare Danova (aka, Count Elmo Mancini) are lying under the Count’s Ferrari when Ann-Margret wa...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Did the late 1970s represent the peak of “personal luxury” coupe ownership in America? It’s true that, 40 years...
When we published the last “From the parts bin” mystery, reader Carl Pennauchi reached out for some help in identifying a tonneau boot cover he’d found on a $1 table at Hershey a decade or so back. T...
When we published the last “From the parts bin” mystery, reader Carl Pennauchi reached out for some help in identifying a tonneau cover he’d found on a $1 table at Hershey a decade or so back. The ve...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor No, there’s nothing racy about the above photo, just a wholesome young lady and her car… Okay, so you don’t hav...
Photography by author. While rummaging through booth after booth of overpriced objects at one of my favorite antique malls a few weeks ago, I discovered a sale – a group of 1950s and 1960s Popular Me...
1954 Lincoln Capri, on loan to The Revs from the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Photos by author. From the beginning of December through the end of April, I spend quite a lot of time thi...
My friends and I loved to watch Starsky & Hutch when we were kids. Cool plainclothes detectives, David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, showing their righteous indignation toward the circumstances that su...
Photos by author. Today’s auto manufacturers limit color choices to mainly boring-looking silvers and grays, along with equally uninspiring dark blues, black and white, but back in the 1950s new car ...
These are dome lamp covers, but from which postwar American vehicle? Photos by author unless otherwise noted. The internet is often referred to as “the sum of all human knowledge,” but from our persp...
The Turnpike Cruising Package was only available on the Cutlass Supreme models for 1967. Artwork courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. The advent of the Turnpike Cruising Package m...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As in Europe, vehicles in postwar England were typically small and efficient, sized for that country’s busy city streets and narrow rura...
One off-camera flash bracket + one quarter = instant screwdriver. A pair of Vise-Grips would have worked to hold the quarter too, but we didn’t have those either. Photos by author. While on the road ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/ Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras,...
Photos by Jake Schreiber. It’s been a while since we’ve run an installment in the “From the Toolbox” series, but we recently received a pair of photos from reader Jake Schreiber that, quite frankly, ...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor The smaller Swedish automaker was in a pretty good place in 1985, poised to sell a then-record 39,068 units in the ...