Restored 1956 Volkswagen Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Note: for those who don’t like the engine tin color I have a set of them in black my mechanic can install for ...
VW-based 1981 Puma GTI for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: with 24853 Miles. This is not a Kit Car. It has been manufactured by Puma in Brazil and shipped to the US for testing i...
Four-speed 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Our beautiful black Corvair is equipped with a manual transmission mated to a twin carburated 95 horse...
Four-speed 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Our beautiful black Corvair is equipped with a manual transmission mated to a twin carburated 95 horse...
Not counting horseless carriages and other early automobiles that placed their engines under and behind-ish the driver, the Pontiac Fiero is often hailed as the first mid-engine American production c...
Mechanically-sorted example of the Brazilian-market 1974 Volkswagen SP2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This SP2 is one of very few imported into the US. It spent much of its...
Photos by Doug Miller. The Volkswagen Beetle, as we all know by now, sent shockwaves through the U.S. auto industry. Sure, imports had come and gone in the past, but they were usually considered outl...
Photos courtesy Randy Carlson. As a young salesman at the local Volkswagen dealership, Norman Gonzalez started socking away used Beetles as early as 1958, cherrypicking among the trade-ins that came ...
About 100 Corvairs take part in Springfest every year, from mild to wild and everything in between. Photography by author. For 35 years Corvair owners in the Southeast have been getting together in t...
Restored 1947 Harley-Davidson ServiCar for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1947 Harley Davidson Model G Servi-car. 45 ci flathead WLA, three speed transmission with reverse. Left...
Volkswagen-based 1969 Autodynamics Hustler for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Lotus Replicar 1969 (Autodynamics Hustler) Porsche 912 engine. Runs good, needs brake work and pain...
Joe Strayhorn in Corvair #6000. Photo courtesy Dave Newell. In the months leading up to the final day of production for the Chevrolet Corvair, General Motors fielded calls from dealers, executives, a...
Unrestored one-owner 1967 Chevrolet Corvair Monza for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This Corvair Monza Coupe was purchased in 1967 from O’Toole Chevrolet in Eugene, Oregon. The...
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Two is a coincidence and three is a trend, they say, but they likely weren’t talking about Volkswagen Things sitting on air suspensions and sporting le...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
Recent build/restoration of a 1970 Meyers Manx SR2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Touted As A very Early Production Version, But A Newer Restoration, This 1970 Volkswagen Me...
Images courtesy Slovak Design Center. The field had narrowed down from hundreds of sketches to 20 scale models to four full-size mockups. None of the four motivated Tatra’s design staff to continue w...
Image courtesy Michele Monticello. Despite the shuttering of the police investigation into the theft of Michele Monticello’s Porsche, Monticello remains committed to finding the car a year after it w...
La Carrera Panamericana veteran 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Only Corvair to start or complete Carrera Panamerican Road Race in Mexico! Color:...
Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
Images courtesy Barry Gremillion. Stolen, abandoned, slated for the scrap heap: Certainly not the fate Bill Cushenberry imagined for what was to be his crowning achievement, the Silhouette II Space C...
Project-status 1966 Sunbeam Imp Mk II for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: this is a MkII and sports Mk2 badges on each door and a Pentastar badge on the passenger side too. These...
Restored 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vehicle is a real header turner from the black exterior to the cream/ red interior restored to show...
Brazilian 1986 Volkswagen Type 2 Double Cab for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A solid car with mechanics in order, upholstery redone in the original standard pattern, new door ...
At what point does a restoration on a car become an “older restoration?” Perhaps that doesn’t depend so much on time passed since the restoration, but on a car’s usage since and maintenance of its re...