While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes f...
Images from 2012 Watkins Glen SVRA Vintage Grand Prix. All photos by the author. Saloon racing is the European equivalent of our stock car racing, though they make just as many right turns as left on...
Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1969, Honda introduced its first U.S. market automobile, the N600 sedan. Developed from the Japanese market N360, the N600 underwent an extensive testing program in the United ...
While on the hunt for photos of his first Buick Apollo, Joe Essid came across a photo he thought would be of interest to our carspotters. Captioned only with “MGM Grand Hotel, Nevada, Oct. 1980” by h...
Still from House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology video. In a hearing on the recently introduced bill crafted to exempt competition vehicles from the Clean Air Act, a government researcher...
1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche and Volkswagen collection made headlines when 16 (of 17) cars offered at auction in Amelia Island sol...
1958 Toyota Toyopet Crown, in left-hand drive. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. When the first Toyota Toyopet Crowns landed on the docks in Los Angeles in the late summer of 1957, no one on h...
There’s a little bit of work left to be done on this 1970 Datsun 510 for sale on Hemmings.com, but that’s nothing compared to the restoration work the seller’s already completed, from floor and rocke...
The Hannover plant in 1959. Photos courtesy Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. On March 5, 1955, Volkswagen broke ground on a new factory in Hannover-Stoecken, Germany, and just over one year later, on ...
An aerial view of the event. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd. Tennesee’s Chattanooga Cruise-In started out several years back as an informal open house at Coker Tire headquarters and Honest Charley Speed Sh...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
By William Hall. Photos by the author and Tom Heinrich. Lyn St. James climbs into the cramped cockpit of the 1964 Alfa Romeo TZ 1 and takes a few moments to familiarize herself with the instruments a...
The disagreement between the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park and its neighbors on Clark Circle remains ongoing, but on March 17 the track will present an amended noise abatement plan to the ...
One man’s trash, it’s said, is another man’s treasure. While none of the cars gathered for this edition of the $5,000 challenge fall into the “trash” category, each has the potential of being a treas...
Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to thw...
On the California Mille, 2015. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. In 2015, vehicles from Porsche’s “Rolling Museum” made over 280 appearances at events stretching from Europe to North America to China. The ...
Images courtesy of Renault, unless noted. The New York Times and National Public Radio broke a story on March 1 that Musicologist Mark Clague of the University of Michigan, who is in the process of r...
Anybody who’s ever taken a side on the did-ZIS-really-copy-Packard debate and hasn’t ever actually traveled to Russia to examine an old ZIS in person, we present this 1947 ZIS 110 limousine for sale ...
1968 Subaru 360. Images courtesy Subaru America. Vintage Japanese vehicle enthusiasts aside, Subaru isn’t a brand that most Americans associate with collectible cars. Perhaps that’s a testament to th...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
Photos courtesy of Historics at Brooklands. A two-seat convertible sports car hardly seems like a sensible choice for police work, but from the 1930s into the 1960s, British automaker MG provided a v...
Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic...
Photo courtesy of Frank Wnek/ The Morganeer. The Sports Car Club of America has announced the creation of two classes for pre-1975 sports cars in its popular Solo autocross program, giving owners of ...
With the rest of the Internet going ape over the recently released photos of the Bugatti Chiron, we thought we’d look back over the confluence of the Volkswagen and Bugatti names, a tie-up that – wou...
How much can you really know about a car that you haven’t owned from new yourself? In the case of this 1965 Austin-Healey Mk III BJ8, for sale on Hemmings.com, the answer is “quite a bit.” Purchased ...