Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...
All photos courtesy Bonhams. Amid all the uncertainties in automotive history, there exist at least a few undisputed facts. For instance, Ford never built a production line vehicle with its legendary...
Images courtesy of obs/Sono Motors GmbH and GM Media Sono Motors — a “mobility provider” founded by three youthful forward-thinkers in 2016, in Munich, Germany — recently announced that production of...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
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...
The world’s best-known De Lorean will star in the upcoming Petersen exhibit, “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Automobiles and othe...
Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...
1947 Buick Super Eight custom convertible. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Barrett-Jackson’s Palm Beach, Florida, auction is an annual rite of spring that draw bidders and spectators alike from arou...
The Beechcraft Plainsman, had it been built, wouldn’t have just been ahead of its time, in some respects it would have been ahead of our time as well. The specs were pretty well laid out in an articl...
Mercedes-Benz C 111-II experimental vehicle on the test track at the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz Classic. Officially, Mercedes-Benz remained retired from racing; ...
Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. Sydney Allard cared about many things when building his sports cars. Aesthetics were not among those priorities. Yet with the Palm Beach Mark II, the prototype o...
1956X Buick Century, on display at the Gilmore Museum. Photos courtesy the Gilmore Museum. As the director of styling at General Motors (and later, upon Harley Earl’s retirement, vice president of it...
1960 Imperial Crown convertible, one of 618 built and roughly 31 remaining. It earned a Grand National Senior Champion from the AACA in 2014. Photography by author. Go to pretty much any open car sho...
Restored 1975 Dodge Bighorn for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Prototype Shortnose Dodge Bighorn. One of 9 produced for testing. Only complete truck known to exist. Bought from ...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Somewhere in Detroit, supposedly in a garage under the Ambassador Bridge, rests a heavily modified ‘Cuda, the last car that ...
‘Cadmad,’ the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photo by John Sanderson. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’s Ridler ...
“Cadmad,” the 2019 Ridler Award winner. Photos courtesy Detroit Autorama. Cadillac never contracted with Pinin Farina to build a station wagon variant of its 1959 Eldorado Brougham, but as this year’...
The 1998 Nissan R390 GT1 road car. Photo courtesy Nissan Motor Corporation. To race in the GT1 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nissan had to build one road-going version of its R390 GT1 racing car....
Photographs courtesy Hispano Suiza. Although we probably won’t see a complete picture of the new Hispano Suiza Carmen model until the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show in mid-March, we have seen s...
1978 Milt Antonick drawing shows conventional doors. One day, Plymouth designer Milt Antonick took a full-size Dodge van home, but couldn’t fit it into his garage. Milt recalled, as we looked at his ...
WE’RE BACK! I know it’s been a way-too-long hiatus between chapters of the Stoner T, but that’s just par for the course with this car. Since the day I started collecting the pile of parts that ultima...
From the seller’s description: European Motor Studio is excited to bring to market this incredible find. This example is the Prototype of the 1991 Lotus Turbo Esprit SE Jim Clark Indianapolis Special...
Photo courtesy State Library of Western Australia. Apologies for leading with a cheap-shot Lucas joke, but you knew they were coming. After all, if a lighting and electrics automotive supplier best k...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...