As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
One of the vehicles contesting next month’s Peking-to-Paris race will be a 1968 AMX looking sufficiently beefy and campaigned by rally veterans Jim Valentine and Jonathan Lodge. What’s more, they’ll ...
Photo from the writer’s collection. After Henry Ford almost singlehandedly created the low-priced automobile category with the Model T, the rest of the industry found itself playing catch-up with mod...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...
True, this 1928 Ford Model A party truck for sale on Hemmings.com is less collector car than it is a fun and innovative business idea (and, given the timespan of Prohibition, rather anachronistic), b...
1927 Bugatti Type 38A Grand Sport. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. By the late 1920s, Bugatti had established itself as a dominant force in motor racing with the hu...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
Photography by author. Back in the pre-war motoring days, few cars had heaters. Although under-dash heaters were a rare option, and dangerous as the early heaters used gasoline, even then many people...
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul...
Photo by John Butte. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Darlene and her friends had their first opportunity to see and experience one of the newest technologies: television. Some of the six girls (Regina Fenn...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
Debuting in January of 1928, Chevrolet’s National Model AB introduced new features like four-wheel brakes, a thermostat, indirect instrument lighting and Alemite fittings to make chassis lubrication ...