Image courtesy Iso Millennium Committee. For nearly 20 years, a group of Iso enthusiasts has worked to establish a museum dedicated to the auto and motorcycle builder in its former headquarters and f...
AMC’s Plymouth Road headquarters in July 2009 (left) and October 2016 (right). Images courtesy Google Street View. Despite earlier discussions entertaining the possibility of demolishing the Detroit ...
Images courtesy of Bonhams and the Hemmings archives Saab fans from around the world have traveled to the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, Sweden, to see the “UrSaab,” or the original Saab car prototy...
Photo by David Conwill. Anybody unlucky enough to get a noise ticket from the city of Royal Oak during this month’s Woodward Dream Cruise is getting a reprieve thanks to one lawyer’s work, according ...
Buick City today. Photo courtesy Google Maps. From the air, the stark gray remains of Buick City, a sprawling Flint, Michigan, plot roughly bordered by East Pierson Street, East Wood Street, Industri...
Singer, songwriter, actor, and television host Glen Campbell died on August 8 after a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s disease. One of Campbell’s roles that few remember is Datsun pitchman; as Japa...
Photo courtesy Ford Media. For the first few years, Ford manufactured average-priced cars and a few expensive cars: Models A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. In addition, there were experimental models that...
Part of the Willow Run complex that will be transformed into the Yankee Air Museum. Still images from video below, unless otherwise noted. The Great Race has been to Ypsilanti, Michigan before, and o...
Photos courtesy FCA. Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant is no stranger to hardship, having witnessed the decline of the spark plug business, along with the rise, fall, rebirth an...
Photo courtesy Hagley Digital Archives. Empty for a decade, the former Budd Wheel factory in Detroit, which turned out coachbuilt prototypes and all-steel production bodies for multiple Detroit autom...
Photo courtesy Morgan. Not many companies get to call a single factory home for more than a century. Morgan, on the other hand, isn’t like many companies, and the company recently proved that fact ye...
Jaguar C-type, XJR-9, and D-type on display in Coventry. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In 1957, Jaguar D-types finished first, second, third, fourth and sixth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but per...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...
Photos courtesy Studebaker Museum. Dismantled and stuffed away with no discernible caretaker, a relic of Studebaker and South Bend history will rise again when the team redeveloping a former Studebak...
At the dawn of the automotive industry, cars were assembled one at a time by skilled laborers, generally from components supplied by specialist companies. Such practices were costly, meaning that aut...
Photos by Jason Robinson, courtesy GM. More than 100,000 documents and artifacts related to Flint carriagebuilding and early General Motors history have made their way to the newly reopened Flint fac...
Corvettes under assembly in Bowling Green, 2016. Photo by Sanford Myers, Courtesy of General Motors. When GM’s Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant geared up for the switch from the C6 Corvette to t...
Photo courtesy PackardPlantProject on Instagram. Three years after a real estate developer bought the remains of Detroit’s Packard plant with grand ambitions – and nearly 63 years after Packard vacat...
Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today’s models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe...
Image via Google Street View, circa 2011. Henry Ford might have built some of the largest automobile factories around the world – towering, sprawling examples of industrial might – but his last facto...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
Text and photos by Jim Garrison. It is a common misconception, even in the Kalamazoo community, that Checker Motors went out of business when they stopped making taxicabs. In fact, the case is quite ...
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,...
As he has for the last several years, artist Stefan Marjoram has taken on an auto advent calendar project, with a new piece of art each day until Christmas. * New Fiesta coming, so Adrian Flux’s Infl...