Route 66 in California. Photo by Hannah Swithinbank. With a couple proposals already on the table to preserve Route 66 ahead of the planned defunding of a critical federal program, another option flo...
Jack Brabham’s BT-19 in the National Sports Museum in Melbourne. Photo by Bahnfrend. After a report outlined serious deficiencies in the Australian government’s ability to keep culturally significant...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...
Southern District of Iowa federal courthouse. Image courtesy Google Maps. An Iowa man who defrauded at least two collector car buyers of more than $45,000 has been sentenced to more than two years in...
Hindustan Ambassador at the Red Fort in Old Delhi. Photo by sheeprus. With an internationally recognized concours d’elegance, multiple vintage car clubs and museums, and tens of thousands of collecto...
Photo by Chris Dobbins. We all have a favorite automotive tall tale or conspiracy theory we cling to over the years, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong and need debunked. Though we didn’t hear it...
Route 66 outside of Oatman, Arizona. Photo by Vicente Villamon. Citing the economic impact that Route 66 has had and continues to have on small to mid-size communities, Landmarks Illinois earlier thi...
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...
Photo by Kurt Haubrich. Despite the ongoing rollout of E15 fuel nationwide, a handful of bills introduced in legislatures in D.C. and elsewhere aim to put a halt to sale of the fuel blamed for causin...
Photo by Steven Harris. Land-speed racers frustrated with the federal Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of the shrinking and thinning Bonneville Salt Flats may no longer have to deal with the bur...
Photo by Trenten Kelley. While one state legislator’s attempt to restrict the definition of antique vehicle has been negated, another state legislature intends to do something similar, rolling back t...
Photo by Rachel Knickmayer. On the heels of a bill intended to preserve Route 66 comes another piece of legislation that would secure National Historic Trail status for Route 66 and that would theore...
Chevrolet pickup in northeast Portland, Oregon. Photo by Tony Webster. Multiple Oregon state legislators said over the weekend that they would not allow a bill that would introduce a $1,000 impact ta...
Photo by the author. About a month into the new legislative session for many states, at least six have introduced bills that would provide for greater freedom for displaying license plates on older v...
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
The Henry Ford’s trove of Dave Friedman photos has revealed many gems in the past, so one would expect the most recent digitized batch of Friedman photos – from the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside ...