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The Dodge Concept II minivan limo conversion. Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. From Hemmings’ old friend Joe Bortz comes this velour-covered glimpse into a limousine conversion concept, circa 1984-1985. Th...
The Dodge Concept II minivan limo conversion. Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. From Hemmings’ old friend Joe Bortz comes this velour-covered glimpse into a limousine conversion concept, circa 1984-1985. Th...
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
1959 Pontiac Catalina Safari pickup. Photos by Jeremy Cliff, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Relatively popular in the prewar years, car-based pickups had all but disappeared from the American landscape whe...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. For most of us, a good day in the junkyard means the yellowjackets didn’t sting and the Sawzall blade didn’t pretzel up. For a pair of Ford enthusia...
Photos courtesy Steve Linne. Racer Jack Conely might have been best known for the “maxi-mouse” small-block Chevrolet engines punched out to big-block proportions, but squirreled away among his stash ...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. With tiny Beetles proliferating across America, Cliff Hall wanted to build a true “people’s car”: one designed not only for economically disadvantaged to b...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
You have questions, dear reader, we have answers. Most of the time. Y’see, Lost and Found is as much a journey for you as it is for those of us in Hemmings HQ — we’re just as fascinated by vehicles t...
Photo courtesy the Howard Gribble collection. In 1968, photographer Howard Gribble made this image of a young Walt Prey standing next to some of his latest custom paintwork at a car show held in the ...
Seventies custom-car culture is being reinterpreted in some amazing ways… in Japan. Photos courtesy Sho Kogawa. Ah, the Japanese car scene. As in America, it runs deep and in a bunch of directions: J...
Photos courtesy Tom Maruska. When Jack Reith’s vision for a newly prominent and profitable Mercury division — led by the fantastic Ghia-built XM-Turnpike Cruiser — collapsed almost as soon as it laun...
Images are courtesy of Aston Martin Media Aston Martin is no stranger to capitalizing on its incredible back-catalog, having recently sold 25 “ continuation ” alloy-bodied DB4 GT Lightweights, each o...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
1966 Porsche 911 Spyder. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Southern California Porsche dealer Johnny von Neumann knew what his customers wanted, and a Targa ...
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...
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...
Eagle Squadron Mustang and its inspiration, the Supermarine Spitfire. All images courtesy of Ford; photos by Drew Gibson. We write about cars, sure, but that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate other hi...
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...
After a special unveiling and tumultuous overture by a military band, Pan American is shown to the public for the first time at 1952 International Motor Sports Show in New York City. Queen of the sho...
Photos by Josh Bryan, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. For all of its dream car aesthetics, the 1960 Plymouth XNR very nearly became a production reality. That it didn’t likely proved a huge disappointment to ...
Images courtesy Slovak Design Center. The field had narrowed down from hundreds of sketches to 20 scale models to four full-size mockups. None of the four motivated Tatra’s design staff to continue w...
The restored Lamborghini Miura SVR. Photos courtesy Lamborghini Polo Storico. In East Asia, Lamborghini’s most recognized model may well be the Miura SVR, a one-off creation built by the factory for ...
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...
Testbed recreation 1929 Packard 626 speedster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a faithful recreation of the Packard Motor Car Company’s factory rolling engineering tes...