The biggest complaint we hear about new cars from mainstream manufacturers these days is this: Thanks to current crash-testing and fuel economy regulations, they all look the same. Perhaps what Hemmi...
The biggest complaint we hear about new cars from mainstream manufacturers these days is this: Thanks to current crash-testing and fuel economy regulations, they all look the same. Perhaps what Hemmi...
Pretty much every event in the 20th century can be linked to an automobile of some sort. Take, for instance, the 1930 Studebaker recently displayed at a car show in India: It carries its “killer” rep...
Photo courtesy ChromeCars. At one point its owners abandoned it by the roadside, considering it worth less than the gas no longer in its tank. More than 50 years later, one of the nine known Futurlin...
Though the April 15 deadline for filing individual tax returns is still over a month away, those getting federal or state refunds have probably sent in (or electronically filed) paperwork by now. In ...
Tom Hanson with his 1932 Chevrolet. Photo courtesy Tom Hanson. Approximately 100 cars ago, I cobbled together my first car – a 1932 Chevrolet. Fifty dollars bought a rolling body, sans engine and tra...
Pair of weathered 1954 Buicks for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1954 V-8 Buick Special Coupe & 1954 V-8 Buick Super Hardtop. both ‘Nailhead’ V8 engine. Have factory windshield ...
Photo by Mr. Muggles. Thankfully, we’ve survived another trip around the sun, which means it’s time once again for our annual gaze into the crystal ball, which smells suspiciously of carb cleaner (re...
Former theater troupe’s 1948 Brill intercity bus for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1948 Brill bus is a snapshot from the past. It has remained basically unchanged from whe...
As with Harlo at The Chicane, we don’t follow most of the dialog in this trailer for the 1957 Italian flick “I fidanzati della morte,” but that don’t matter because the motorcycles and the racing are...
Once again, ‘tis the season for short days, cold nights, and at least in the vicinity of Hemmings World Headquarters in Bennington, Vermont, snow. For those lucky enough to have heat in the workshop,...
Photos courtesy Klein Realty and Auction. Blame a 1965 Chevrolet for Terry Hodgen’s fascination with the Buick Riviera. “As the story goes, he bought that Chevrolet new, and the transmission went aft...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...
1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS Z16. Photos courtesy Joel McKee. For some, the “one that got away” is a lost love interest, while for others, it’s a fish, or a 10-point buck. For those of us passio...
1957 Porsche 356A 1600 Speedster. Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. Prices for Porsche 356 models have been on the upswing in recent years, so it was no surpr...
Usually, but not always, there’s a theme that holds each installment of the $5,000 challenge together. It may be cars that need assembly, or unusual finds, or cars from a particular decade, or it may...
The car that won the first Indianapolis 500, the 1911 Marmon Wasp, on display in Shell’s SEMA booth. Photos by Steve Berry. Every year, the automotive aftermarket flocks to Las Vegas in early Novembe...
Photo courtesy Gavin in the UK. Regulations passed last month designed to ease trade restrictions with Cuba could permit the Forties and Fifties American cars still prowling the streets of Havana to ...
Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...
Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...
The beauty of the old car hobby is this: There’s something to interest just about everyone, across a wide variety of price points. Most editions of the $5,000 Challenge have focused on automobiles fr...
Don’t call it a rat rod! When a car guy or gal hears that term they think of something like the cars from Mad Max: Fury Road. A patina’d body is akin to the Japanese philosophy of sabi —the beauty th...
The problem with owning a perfectly restored classic car is this: using it as a regular driver is bound to induce a certain amount of paranoia. After spending more on a paint job than you did on your...
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...
Don’t let its black paint and full fenders fool you–this Ford Model T Runabout is far from stock. Photos by the author. Henry Ford advertised his Model T as “The Universal Car,” with the implication ...