1967 Plymouth Hemi GTX. Photos by Russ Rocknak, courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. Introduced in the fall of 1966, Plymouth’s GTX was billed as “the gentleman’s hot rod,” blending equal parts ...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...
Photo courtesy SEMA. Some of the largest legislative issues of concern to collector car enthusiasts – among them the Environmental Protection Agency’s racecar ruling and the spread of ethanol-blended...
1957 Ford Thunderbird, with the F-code V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Ford’s two-seat Thunderbird debuted in 1955, in direct response to the Chevrolet Corvette. Within a few years, however, th...
Photos by the author. It’s springtime in Central Texas and that means the Lonestar Round Up has convened in Austin for a hot rod weekend. The show brings builders, musicians, artists, vendors, and fa...
Photos by the author. It’s springtime in Central Texas and that means the Lonestar Roundup has convened in Austin for a hot rod weekend. The show brings builders, musicians, artists, vendors, and fas...
Photos via TommyIvo.com. As a lifelong showman, even birthdays become an excuse to entertain, which is why “TV” Tommy Ivo will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a public birthday bash at the NHRA...
1973 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL, sold for $9,075. Photos courtesy Auctions America. What do a Nash Metropolitan, a Cadillac Allante, a Chevrolet Corvair Monza, an AMC Javelin and a Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzg...
Dawn breaks over Turn 12 at PIR and down the main straight. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senat...
The Kirt Fryer 1971 Mustang collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Ask Mustang enthusiasts to name the most desirable examples over the years, and it’s a safe bet that the lar...
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...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. When Chevrolet released the newly styled 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe, it did so with the knowledge that a select group of customers would want to take these cars road...
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainte...
2015 Touge California. Photos by Ben Hsu, courtesy Japanese Nostalgic Car . North America has its share of rally events for classic cars, including the Hemmings-sponsored Great Race, the Colorado Gra...
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car sho...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
The Veterans Charity Ride arriving in Sturgis, 2015. Photos courtesy Indian Motorcycles. The Veterans Charity Ride was an entirely new and highly successful idea started last year by veteran Army Par...
Photos by author. Automakers are constantly pressured to bring out new and fresh products, virtually being required to reinvent the wheel, if you will, to get customers into showrooms. Of course, the...
Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside...
The Maserati Museum in Modena. Photos courtesy International Expeditions, unless otherwise specified. If one could put together the ultimate car-lover’s vacation, what would it include? Tours of priv...
Images from 2012 Watkins Glen SVRA Vintage Grand Prix. All photos by the author. Saloon racing is the European equivalent of our stock car racing, though they make just as many right turns as left on...
1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche and Volkswagen collection made headlines when 16 (of 17) cars offered at auction in Amelia Island sol...
1958 Toyota Toyopet Crown, in left-hand drive. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. When the first Toyota Toyopet Crowns landed on the docks in Los Angeles in the late summer of 1957, no one on h...
The Hannover plant in 1959. Photos courtesy Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. On March 5, 1955, Volkswagen broke ground on a new factory in Hannover-Stoecken, Germany, and just over one year later, on ...
1953 Muntz Jet roadster. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Earl “Madman” Muntz was renowned as a used-car and cheap-television pitchman, but even his sales...