Photo courtesy FCA. After our recent-ish story on the end of Zastava, we got to thinking which Fiat model was most successful not necessarily in its home market, but abroad, built under license or so...
Date: circa 1957 Location: Surfers Paradise, Queensland Source: Gold Coast City Libraries, via Have You Seen the Old Gold Coast on Facebook What do you see here?
1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile camper conversion for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original and rare Martin Walter Dormobile conversion to a new Land Rover 109 series IIa Statio...
The first Volvo 144 rolls off the assembly line in 1966. Photos courtesy Volvo Car Group. On August 17, 1966, Volvo gathered an estimated 400 journalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, to show off its latest...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Shooting Brake. Photos by Matt Howell, courtesy Gooding & Company. When real estate developer and builder Bob Gittleman paid a circa-1973 visit to Chinetti-Garthwaite Motors in...
Mazda 767B. Photo courtesy of Mazda North American Operations. For Mazda, the path to a rotary-powered prototype-class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was a long one, stretching from 1983 (and the...
Perhaps one of the most memorable and influential ad campaigns – not just for automobiles, but of all time – was that run by DDB for Volkswagen. To get to the bottom of why it worked so well and how ...
Double-exposed film, an annoyance that digital photography has all but eliminated, can actually look rather nice in the hands of a photographer like Jacob Kahler, who specializes in double-exposed au...
The award-winning 1958 Subaru 360 K111. Photo courtesy of Fuji Heavy Industries. The Subaru 360 may not have been an ideal fit for American consumers, but in Japan, the “Ladybug” became a cultural ic...
1985 Audi Quattro for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The car has been in Colorado (23 years)/California (2years) since 1991/92:There is no evidence that it has ever had any rust...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Ooh, that body lean is making us a bit queasy… 1974 represented the last model year for Volvo’s 140 series, which dated back to the August 1966 i...
1978 KG Farfadet for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A ‘one-off’ constructed in England and evoking the feel of vintage BSA’s and Morgans, this roadster has the classic air of a ...
The 1968 Triumph TR-250 owned by Jim Whalen of Loudonville, New York, was our pick for Best in Show. All photos by Terry Shea/Hemmings Motor News. The Valencia Blue roadster wowed the showgoers—and H...
The 1968 Triumph TR250 owned by Jim Whalen of Loudonville, New York, was our pick for Best in Show. All photos by Terry Shea/Hemmings Motor News. The Valencia Blue roadster wowed the showgoers—and He...
Photos by clemsonc. Sometimes things just stick in the back of your brain like little morsels of meat after a good porkchop dinner. You could floss it out, but it’s also occasionally rewarding to wor...
Fiat 124 Sport Spiders were well-represented at the 11th annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show. Photos by author. What can you say about a car show that serves up everything from vintage Volkswage...
Drag racing in Britain got a big push forward when the NHRA took several of its big names and their cars over for exhibition races in the mid-Sixties, as seen in this British Pathe video that Mac’s M...
Unimogs aren’t generally considered as race fodder, but they are nigh-indestructible and as we see from this story on Engine Swap Depot, they’ll go faster with bigger and more powerful Mercedes engin...
Since starting this series in 2014, we’ve received more than a few requests to broaden our horizons and include motorcycles in the $5,000 Challenge. As someone who once counted a bike as his only mot...
Chris Amon (R) with Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1967. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Best remembered for his win in the Ford GT40 Mk IIA with co-driver Bruce McLaren in the 1966 24 Hour...
Lamborghini P140 prototype. P140 photos by Ronan Glon. Lamborghini needed to replace both the Countach and the Jalpa in the late 1980s. While the Countach was a range-topping, V12-powered flagship, t...
Hemmings archive photo. One would presume that a company that not only built the Yugo but also withstood international sanctions and a NATO bombing campaign and nevertheless continued to build cars c...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “ Born from Jets ” tagline of the mid-2000s may have seemed fresh at the time -if a bit far-fetched for the then-GM subsidiary- but ...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...