Disney press photo. At the height of General Motors’ dominance throughout the middle of the 20th century, executives rarely missed the opportunity to go all out at major expositions and even created ...
GM Lean Machine. Photo courtesy GM Media. Frank Winchell never liked the name “Lean Machine,” as GM called the three-wheeled concept vehicle that it showed off in 1982. To him, it was the cambering v...
Mehr ist besser Stolze 22 vollelektrische Modelle sind es, die General Motors bis 2021 auf der BEV3 Ultium-Plattform an den Start schiebt. Dabei werden sie ihr ganzes Markenportfolio ausschöpfen. Von...
What’s cool about an ’84 Camaro? Well, what was first the domain of freshly-monied pro-BMX stars and your best friend’s mom’s minor lottery winnings is now vintage and deemed sorta-cool by kids under...
Not long after we ran Peter Wozena’s minicar rendering, we heard from Scott Wozena, Peter’s nephew, who had another couple renderings of his uncle’s to share with us. “It makes me proud to see his ta...
…the result might look a little something like this rendering that Pete Wozena drew, dated May of 1956, which we came across in the Cooper Hewitt collections. The LaSalle II reference, by the way, is...
It’s an undisputed truth that Rock-N-Roll and muscle cars go together like Dazed and Confused. One of the first things we always seem to do, after plunking down the cake for the car we buy – whether ...
Color: it’s the most important element of a location shoot like this one. Make sure that the car’s color is complemented by its surroundings. Guess what the complementary color of blue is, on the col...
Color: it’s the most important element of a location shoot like this one. Make sure that the car’s color is complemented by its surroundings. Guess what the complementary color of blue is, on the col...
We often find ourselves saying, around here, “We don’t live on vintage muscle, alone.” Sure, you can substitute any strain of car culture for “vintage muscle,” but the point is, as much as we love ou...
We spend a whole lot of our waking hours, here at Hemmings, talking about the new kids. The younger generations. Passing the baton. What’s gonna happen with all the stuff we love so much, after we’ve...
GM Media images. Naming an engine beyond its actual displacement can do wonders for an automaker’s marketing efforts. The capital-H Hemi has inestimable brand value, and Ford for many years relied on...
We come across some great vintage celluloid in our line of work. It’s one of the real joys of the job, y’know? And amidst the amazing hair styles and the bias-ply slicks and the magnesium wheels and ...
So, this week, we’ve been all about the Riviera: 1st-gen, 2nd-gen and all the rest. Well, there might’ve been a few years there in the ’80s we could probably forget about, but hey – Z Cavariccis and ...
We’re on a vintage Olds Power jag this week, folks. And we’re not even sorry. Nor should we be, right? When it comes to all things Muscle, we’d submit that we spend way too much time limiting ourselv...
Here at the Hemmings office, there’s one thing we absolutely never, ever get tired of hearing about: the barn find. We don’t care if the barn is actually a garage, a carport, a backyard, a shed, or a...
If you’re a gearhead with an internet connection, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this video before. But don’t let that stop you from reveling in its wavy analog goodness once more. And if you have...
Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...
Yeah, we know. It’s Valentine’s Day. And while you’re social media status might be “It’s complicated,” we prefer to deal in the more pure matters of the heart: vintage muscle! Now, if you’re anything...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
The biggest news of the year happened away from the track. In October 1973, Saudi Arabia — controlled by OPEC — organized an oil embargo in retaliation for United States support of Israel during the ...
Photo courtesy GM. Seventeen thousand new bricks, a whole lotta mortar, a new roof, and an ultramodern climate-controlled archives room helped General Motors secure this year’s Preservation award in ...
2019 Ford Fusion. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. It began as a trickle: In 2016, FCA killed off the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200, leaving the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 as the sol...
Now, here’s something you don’t see every day: David Bowie and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in a side-piped and black panthered, hood-scooped Pontiac. But seriously, folks… What’s amazing about thi...
Photo via online property listing. Delaware once served as a vital link in one of the coups that formed pre-bailout General Motors, but with the announcement late last month of the pending demolition...