Photos courtesy Porsche. In its first decade, 356-001, the first vehicle to carry the Porsche name, suffered a number of ignominies. The letters in that nameplate got rearranged, an Opel full of nuns...
It’s a good bet that the 1921 Ballot straight-eight that John Ballard Engineering recently assembled for a customer may be the last time anybody will take on such a project. Fortunately, Ballard docu...
Sean Kennedy’s 1945 Chevrolet school bus hot rod — note the custom air cleaner. Photos courtesy The Vintage Tour Bus Company. After several decades in the film and entertainment business, Sean Kenned...
1963 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, owned by Jimmy Gonzalez. Photos courtesy The Original Farmers Market. The Gilmore family, of gasoline (and later, petroliana) fame, has owned the property at the co...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
The Classic Car Club of America Museum reported earlier this month that the restoration of Margaret Dunning ‘s 1930 Packard 740 Custom roadster is now complete. * Kaiser’s Henry J, as Mac’s Motor Cit...
Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...
Photos courtesy Lamborghini. Though it technically debuted a couple months prior, the Lamborghini Marzal – the concept car that would eventually spur European coachbuilders to one-up each other with ...
Stout Scarab. Photos courtesy Portland Art Museum, except where noted. The advent of streamlining not only enabled car designers to radically experiment with both the style and substance of the autom...
Images courtesy Mel Francis. “Something happened that wouldn’t normally have happened,” Mel Francis said of the wedge-shaped supercars of the late Sixties and early Seventies, those low-slung mid-eng...
Photos courtesy Osenat, except where noted. The prospect of an inexpensive mid-engine road-car chassis excited many a designer when Porsche announced the 914; the car’s flat and angular design, an in...
The 1957 Corvette SS (L) and the 1963 Corvette Grand Sport. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. A racer himself, Zora Arkus-Duntov – the ‘father of the Corvette” – understood the value of creating pu...
The personality of any hot rod, at some point, is gonna come down to the choices made around the exhaust system. All photos by the author and Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. If you’...
Images are courtesy of Audi Tradition, print ad courtesy Production Cars.com. With the hurt that Audi is putting on Mercedes-Benz sales in today’s luxury car market, one has to wonder if any Mercedes...
Classic Mini Electric concept, which debuted at the 2018 New York International Auto Show. Photos courtesy MINI. Battery electric cars don’t typically generate much interest among enthusiasts, so aut...
In probably not the most shocking news, we’re doing something a little less expected for the seats of the Stoner T. All photos by Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. When I was a young ...
Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...
Move-in for the 2018 Portland Roadster Show. Photos by author. Editor’s note: Don Homuth had a chance to catch the setup for this year’s Portland Roadster Show, and asked us if we’d like to present a...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
All photos by Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. Look, I want you good people to understand one thing about custom shops: you have no idea. You have no idea, no real understanding of t...
French automaker Delahaye introduced its 135 model in 1935, and – war years excluded – variations remained in production until 1954. Delahaye 135s were frequently rebodied by French coachbuilders, bu...
As this Pro Street Mustang demonstrates, if one blower is good, then three must be better. All photos by Barry Kluczyk. Each year, Cobo Hall plays host to the Detroit Autorama, a show that’s become o...
Photos courtesy H&H Auctions. When Don Loper first came across the remains of a funny pickup with Nash badges stored in a tobacco shed, he thought that somebody had just lopped the back off a sedan, ...
Imagine, the 2018 Ridler Award-winning 1957 Chevy. Photos courtesy of Championship Auto Shows. Tri-five Chevies may be a staple at cars shows and cruise-ins, but there hasn’t been one in the running ...
A trio of Playboy convertibles were displayed by owners David Kaplan and Lee Singer at the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Front-to-back: 1949 convertible #97; 1947 Prototype convertibl...