Ask fair-weather enthusiasts to name the first hybrid automobile, and the answer is likely to be the Toyota Prius, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1997, or the Honda Insight, which hit the ma...
An aerial view of the event. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd. Tennesee’s Chattanooga Cruise-In started out several years back as an informal open house at Coker Tire headquarters and Honest Charley Speed Sh...
A 1976 Ford Gran Torino, used in the television series Starsky & Hutch. Image courtesy Leake Auctions. Starsky & Hutch, which premiered on ABC television in April of 1975, was hardly the first crime ...
A 1953 Vincent Black Shadow, what a well-heeled Rocker may have ridden in the day. Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Though both groups were actively rebelling against societal norms, the Mods and Rockers...
Photos by Jeff Koch. Over the years, as the rumors go, plenty of GM-built performance vehicles either got spiked, squashed, detuned, or hush-hushed to protect the Corvette’s reputation as the prime s...
1968 Subaru 360. Images courtesy Subaru America. Vintage Japanese vehicle enthusiasts aside, Subaru isn’t a brand that most Americans associate with collectible cars. Perhaps that’s a testament to th...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
Photos courtesy of Historics at Brooklands. A two-seat convertible sports car hardly seems like a sensible choice for police work, but from the 1930s into the 1960s, British automaker MG provided a v...
Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic...
Photos via Customs and Hot Rods of Andice. The catalogs and reference books all say it shouldn’t exist, but according to both its owner and the shop that built it, the 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 that ...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. For a lot of folks, retirement looks like a lazy fishing hole or an endless round of golf. But a group of gearheads in Sun City West, Arizona, couldn’t imagine ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...
Photo courtesy London Classic Car Show. Day continues to follow night, grass remains green, and the inhabitants of one car-producing country maintain that their car industry has produced the best car...
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. I...
Photos courtesy Victory Motorcycles, unless otherwise noted. If all goes as planned, Urs Pedraita, a Swiss motorcyclist who goes by the nickname “Grizzly,” will depart Daytona Beach, Florida, on Frid...
The AACA’s Michael J. Jones (L) with Coker Tire’s Wade Kawasaki. Images courtesy Coker Tire. On Saturday, February 13, the Antique Automobile Club of America held its 80th annual national awards banq...
1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Chevrolet’s Cosworth Vega could have been the car that attracted enthusiast drivers to the Vega line, and it could have shown the world...
1966 Ford GT40 Mk I. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Ford’s GT40 enjoyed great success as a racing car, but as a passenger car, a role required for FIA homologation, it was a fa...
2015 Great American Tour; image courtesy of Tommy Lee Byrd It should be no surprise, given the high level of anticipation, that the 2016 running of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hag...
1973 Porsche 917/30, chassis 004. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. Introduced to the Can-Am series in 1973, the Porsche 917/30 was the ultimate evolution of the storied Porsch...
Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles e...
1957 Ferrari 335S. Photos courtesy Artcurial. When Artcurial sold a historically significant, ex-works Ferrari 335S for 32,075,200 euros (now, $35.6 million) at its Paris auction on Friday, February ...
1965 Buick Riviera GS. Photos by Mathieu Heurteult, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Introduced in 1963, the Buick Riviera came to market as a personal luxury coupe long on both st...
The 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition crosses the block. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In 2011, a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition with less than seven miles on the odom...
Jack Chrisman, circa 1966. Photos courtesy NHRA. Ask a dozen drag racing fans exactly when the term “Funny Car” came about, and you’re likely to get a dozen different answers. This much is clear: It ...