N100001, the first Camaro built on the pilot assembly line, displayed in the GM booth. Photos by author. Though it was conceived as an industry trade show to support the automotive aftermarket perfor...
What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
Mercury’s 1956 XM Turnpike Cruiser concept. Images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. In April of 1954, John Najjar, then head of Lincoln’s pre-production studios, sketched a series of five futuris...
Why did Chevrolet decide to keep just one 1983 Corvette in existence? That’s a question the National Corvette Museum decided to tackle for its Heritage Series of videos this week. * Though they’re sh...
The Firebird II brochure from the 1956 GM Motorama. Images courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. Driver information display. Adjustable pedals. Beverage cooler. Ventilated seats. Encoded key. Semi-autonomous oper...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
Volkswagen operates two museums in its home town of Wolfsburg, Germany: The ZeitHaus and the Stiftung. The ZeitHaus stands out as the most visited automotive museum in the world, but the Stiftung is ...
Cutaway rendering of the GM Electrovan. Image courtesy General Motors. Though it looked like a normal GMC Handi-Van from the outside, the hydrogen fuel cell powered Electrovan, introduced to the publ...
We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
The 1987 Porsche 928 CS prototype formerly owned by Derek Bell. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The words “company car” tend to conjure up images of de-contented Fords and stripper Chevrolets, but world-cla...
Photo via Detroit Free Press ; brochure image via lov2xlr8.no. If success has many fathers, then Colin Neale had many children. As a longtime designer for both Ford and Chrysler and a close associate...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
CSX2000 crosses the auction stage in Monterey. Photo by Jeff Koch. On August 19, CSX2000, the prototype Shelby Cobra, crossed the auction stage at the RM Sotheby’s sale in Monterey, California. When ...
Mercedes-Benz C111 variants on display at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz unless otherwise noted. Mercedes-Benz seriously began exploring the possibility of build...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
Futurliner No. 3. Photos via MAG Auctions. While a much-hyped and fully restored Futurliner consigned to auction apparently failed to sell over the weekend, another one of the 12 GM Parade of Progres...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...
Hot August Nights in downtown Reno, 2014. Photo by Marcello Rostagni, courtesy Hot August Nights. Since 1986, Hot August Nights (HAN) has been drawing hot rod and custom car fans from around the glob...
Lamborghini P140 prototype. P140 photos by Ronan Glon. Lamborghini needed to replace both the Countach and the Jalpa in the late 1980s. While the Countach was a range-topping, V12-powered flagship, t...
Some people fill their garages with old cars to restore. Joel Baker fills his with 20-foot-tall fiberglass muffler men of multiple configurations, many of which he’s documented as part of his America...
Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. The original Mini is often credited for laying the foundations of the city car as we know it today. However, that ...
The latest Forgotten Fiberglass mystery car. Photos by author. I’ve always been a fan of the space age era from cool plastic stereos and wild “biomorphic” designs. This interest crystallized when I w...
The Defender is dead, right? Not so fast. As Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked reported, a British businessman hasn’t let Jaguar Land Rover’s denial of permission to continue the Defender’s production st...
Mercedes compact design study from 1948. Photos courtesy the Mercedes-Benz archives. Mercedes-Benz made global headlines when it presented the 190 (called w201 internally) in late 1982. To the public...