All images courtesy of the Shelby American Collection Located in Boulder, Colorado, perhaps America’s greatest college town, the Shelby American Collection will be holding its annual car show and par...
Hemmings archive photo. Senior designer Frank Hershey had been working on the rear fender design idea that had first come to him before the war, when Harley Earl led the field trip to Selfridge air b...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Brandon Anderson. Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Brandon Anderson learned how to drive stick in a 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle, on his family’s property in northern Indiana,...
Photos courtesy John Peterson, National Automobile Museum. John W. Mackay, unlike many of his ultra-rich contemporaries, wasn’t enamored with the automobile. Then again, not a lot of people were in t...
Kudzu, it’s a helluva weed. As The Old Motor reported this week, a contractor in North Carolina found 10 speedsters, trucks, and other old cars buried in the vine when he went to tear down a collapse...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. And he called it… the Cougar. Okay, so Gale Halderman might have swung and missed on the name of Ford’s sporty compact four-seater, but the design he sketched for what wou...
Should we feel bad about driving old cars for their negative environmental impact? John Simister ponders how to reconcile caring for both clean air and for classics over at Goodwood. * The photo abov...
Photos courtesy Bonhams, except where noted. In 1971, all Jack Walter knew about the 1956 Porsche he’d just bought off his friend’s older sister was that it needed some body and paint work to straigh...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
Sergio Marchionne in December 2010. Photo courtesy FCA. Sergio Marchionne was a difficult individual to know. The son of an Italian Carabinieri, he spent his formative years in Canada, and later earn...
Photos courtesy Bonhams, except where noted. Were anybody to compile it, the list of American auto enthusiasts who had the resources and the rationale to approach an Italian coachbuilding house in th...
Images courtesy Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Ahead of a retrospective show in 2015, Robert Williams told the Los Angeles Times that he’s no fan of “lowbrow” or the stuffier “pop surrealism” t...
American Hero Zwanzig Meter unter der Wasseroberfläche in der Bucht von Kilkieran vor Irland liegen zwölf Pressen der DeLorean Motor Company. Jetzt, in diesem Moment, zittern Pflanzen in der kalten S...
Nearly 55 years ago, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a complaint against Studebaker for pricefixing oil additives through its subsidiary, STP. As Automotive News reported, the de...
As if it weren’t cool enough to put a pulse jet on a scooter, artist Randy Regier decided to gin up an entire backstory to the Grand Thrust Star 100, complete with “vintage” photos, a kit, and toy re...
Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is the only institution to recognize...
Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...
Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. Many of us have heard the story of the elderly gentleman reunited with a car from h...
Dave Roper aboard his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Photos courtesy Bagamor Media. In 1984, vintage motorcycle racer Dave Roper rode a 1959 Matchless G50 to victory in the Historic 500cc class at ...
Photos via Dick McClurg. Charles Thomas had a gift for envisioning automobile trends decades before they happened. He also had a penchant for returning to his native Western New York to build out his...
Photos courtesy Scott Grundfor. The press release that Ford issued in late 1982 touting the advanced features of the Ghia Brezza concept car included all sorts of dimensional data but failed to menti...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
Tom McEwen. Photo courtesy NHRA. Over a drag racing career that spanned nearly four decades, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen won just five NHRA national events, yet still established himself as one of the ...