Photos via Dick McClurg. Charles Thomas had a gift for envisioning automobile trends decades before they happened. He also had a penchant for returning to his native Western New York to build out his...
Because Hemmings Classic Car focuses on American vehicles, we don’t get to feature the multitude of interesting and mysterious vehicles from other lands that cross our desks on a regular basis in the...
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, the most entertaining marketing for automotive products was issued by the gasoline companies. Their display ads were amusing, engaging, and many times downright funny. Tho...
A pair of cruddy Vans and a vintage “Traction By Hurst” T-shirt graphic, along with a mocked-up rolled pan-slash-air scoop: a modern-day hot rod still life. All photos by the author, unless otherwise...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Video and photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Advertisement images courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Ford’s new-for-1969 response to the budget-muscle Plymouth Road Runner w...
1905 Packard Model N Runabout (top; image by author); 1910 Elmore Model 36 Demi-tonneau (bottom; image by Terry Shea). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but...
Photo by author. Within walking distance of my home is this sign, which, along with others at several exits along I-95 between the Delaware River and Route 1 approaching Princeton in New Jersey, conf...
Photos by author. Today’s auto manufacturers limit color choices to mainly boring-looking silvers and grays, along with equally uninspiring dark blues, black and white, but back in the 1950s new car ...
Peter Revson’s 1972 McLaren M20 Can-Am car. Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1966, the SCCA’s U.S. Road Racing Championship spun off a new series, created in cooperation with the ...