The scene of the last point races for the A.A.A. championship changed from the East to the West Coast, to sunny California. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were run at Santa Monica. Both races...
Cadillac Style honored by the Cadillac La Salle Club By Richard Lentinello At the recent Cadillac La Salle Club’s Grand National Meet held in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the distinct honor of being a...
For the purpose of showing that the electrics were as fully capable of traversing the average country roads and climbing hills as the “higher powered” gas cars, two electric machines left New York Ci...
Photo by the author. As you can see from the above photo I just took of the Hemmings Motor News library, form follows function when it comes to our shelves. That’s largely because we’d rather spend o...
Photo by Jim Donnelly. The young ex-U.S. Navy pilot had arrived from California by train. He was early for his appointment, so he hung about on the sidewalk in downtown New Orleans that January morni...
Although it bore almost no relationship to the road-going car, the Corvette GTP of 1984-1988 certainly saw a lot of racing and bore the Corvette name with pride. The GTP Corvette was borne in an effo...
When a sprinkler pipe burst at the National Automotive History Collection in the Detroit Public Library last February, it looked like the NAHC would be out of commission for about six months. This pa...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am. Art from the collection of Rocky Rotella. Many of us have imagined what it would be like to order our favorite vintage cars back when they were new. Using the information in th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Consider the state of the American performance car at the turn of the century. Dodge’s V-10-powered Viper was ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Alfa Romeo had a truly enthusiast-focused lineup in 1983, being limited to the two-seat Spider roadster and th...
One of America’s favorite automotive writers is right where we left him — in our hearts and minds, and out with a new “Best Of” book. By William Hall His dual role as editor-at-large for both Cycle W...
As the monochrome-and-billet excesses of street rodding began to give way to the stripped down, back-to-basics aesthetic of traditional hot rodding in the late Eighties and into the Nineties, one voi...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Photos courtesy Evro Publishing. Over the course of a three-plus-decade career as a racing driver, David Hobbs – “Hobbo” to his friends – piloted everything from sports cars to Can-Am cars, Formula O...
As the 24 Hours of Daytona approaches in a few short months, along with the Daytona 500 — the first race of the annual NASCAR season — chances are you might have wondered, from time to time, how the ...
Images courtesy of Evro Publishing. Jim Clark was widely considered by his peers and fans as the best racing driver of the era, and his death in an April 1968 Formula 2 crash stunned the world. “If i...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The downsized A/G-body Monte Carlo was one of the most popular and ubiquitous American cars of the 1980s, and ...
While rummaging through a box of old brochures here at HMN HQ recently, I came across this copy of Chevrolet PartsMart, circa October 1963. The PartsMart newsletter was published by Chevrolet and sen...
The 1970s were a decade of change for the sport of Formula 1, as — for the first time — driver safety became a serious consideration and big-dollar sponsorships widened the gulf between the haves and...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
Photo by areyoumyrik. One thing that struck us this week was how many of you had stories about building your own minibikes, typically from scratch, as a kid. And you all made it sound so easy, based ...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The Ford Motor Company will debut a new Bronco in 2020, after a 24-year absence, and that model name — used fr...
During next week’s AACA Fall Meet at Hershey, Hemmings’ Executive Editor Richard Lentinello will be conducting a book signing of his recently published work, Cadillac Style. This limited-edition 128-...