Photography by Jeff Koch We recently profiled the heartwarming tale of a man who sold his high-school car— a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 —and was able to reclaim it more than a decade after he’d sold ...
We trust that you’re doing your part by limiting your interactions with others and generally staying close to the ol’ homestead. Good for you! But we realize these newly imposed constraints may be se...
All images courtesy of Lego What to make of Lego? Is it a toy that speaks to the universal kid in all of us, offering endless creativity and play value? Is it a way to build a model, without fussing ...
Our entertainment options these days are, frankly, astounding, as we’ve collectively discovered over the last couple of weeks. Our forebears had a few keen diversionary doodads too, as we see from th...
Images courtesy of the publisher Niki Lauda wasn’t supposed to be a racing driver. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the assumption was that Lauda would complete his formal education, then join th...
Because we’re all about to be quarantined away for the foreseeable future, we might as well do something to lift our collective spirits. Oh, and April 1 is right around the corner. So bring on your c...
We are forever wondering how to get kids involved in the old-car hobby. The handwringing among the car enthusiast community is endless. How do we get kids involved? Who will love my favorite car when...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. From this once-boutique automaker’s earliest days up to today, Porsche has happily accommodated appeals to personalize its new vehicles...
Death on the Ridge Road by Grant Wood, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art. “Grant Wood never said what he meant” with any of his paintings, Kevin Murphy warned. “He was really enigmatic.” When i...
Photos courtesy the author’s collection. In November of 1964, my Uncle Al bought a 1962 Chevrolet Biscayne 2-door sedan from a Milwaukee dealer’s used car lot. The car was bottom of the line, basic b...
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...