Note Bill’s Aston near the top left of the photo. Photos by Bill Chizar and Steve Patience, courtesy S. Scott Callan/Velocity Press. I felt one of the first questions by the previous owners would be ...
The idea came from Porsche. Ferry Porsche wanted an entry-level Porsche that would give younger drivers affordable access to the Porsche world. The car that was subsequently developed and that reache...
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...
Photo courtesy Australian National Motor Museum. It’s not difficult to find a fault for the demise of the Hartnett Motor Company, one of the few companies to offer a challenge to Holden to become Aus...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. Jerry Gardner — The Man Jerome B. “Jerry” Gardner was born April 9, 1934, in Saugerties, New York. He was the son of the late Edward and Anna Brandow Gardner. A veteran of the ...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
My favorite shot of Carroll and Daisy: sunrise on the banking of Irwindale. Photo courtesy Bud Brutsman. Every year in Detroit after the North American International Auto Show, J Mays and I would get...
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...
Hemmings archive photo. It goes without saying that the collector car hobby is built on nostalgia and memories. And yet, young or old, our memories are not infallible. Individually speaking, that is....
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. It may come as a surprise today, but Austin of England was one of the largest importers of cars to America in the years following World...
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 ...
While the rest of the publishing world is still sorting out what the closure of 19 print titles over at TEN (though some will still live on as digital-only titles) means for print magazines in genera...
Apparently Chrysler and Lotus’s collaboration that resulted in the Lotus-tuned dual overhead-camshaft cylinder head for Chrysler’s 2.2-litre inline four was supposed to result in even more hybrid Lot...
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...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
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...
When I met Brian Winer, who was driving a Lotus Esprit at the time, I was surprised when he said his favorite car was the Ford GT40. This was back in the ‘70s. I thought he was a furrin’ car guy. Tur...
Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
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...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News While Peugeot has a presence in nearly 160 countries around the world, this French automaker hasn’t sold cars in America since 1991. In ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Pontiac division of General Motors has been gone for a decade, but even today, it is remembered for its 1960s persona of youth-orien...
Four days after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, American open-wheel racing series CART held its first race in Europe, hastily renamed from the German 500 to the 2001 American Memorial. With ...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...