This or That shifts into a different gear this week with a couple of spritely small-block performance cars from the early Seventies: a 1971 AMC Hornet SC/360 and a 1972 Plymouth Duster 340. Both of t...
1940 Dodge D-14 DeLuxe convertible (top); 1941 Buick Special 46S Sport Coupe (bottom). Images by the author. Season Four of This or That continues this week with a pair of two-door models from the im...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Volkswagen is now rolling out the eighth generation of its global best seller, the Golf, some 45 years after t...
Images are courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi Volkswagen Type 1 designer and founder of the eponymous sports car company, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche would have been very proud of the accomplishments of his g...
Web Editor Daniel Strohl’s comprehensive story on the construction and fates of the John Graham-designed factories that Ford built across North America to assemble the Ford Model T took a category-wi...
While walking through the ever-impressive Saabs @ Carlisle section during May 17-19’s Import & Performance Nationals, more popularly known as Import Carlisle, I stopped to admire a handsomely restore...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Consider the state of the American performance car at the turn of the century. Dodge’s V-10-powered Viper was ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Alfa Romeo had a truly enthusiast-focused lineup in 1983, being limited to the two-seat Spider roadster and th...
Yeah, we know. It’s Valentine’s Day. And while you’re social media status might be “It’s complicated,” we prefer to deal in the more pure matters of the heart: vintage muscle! Now, if you’re anything...
When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...
1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sport Sedan. Image via The Old Car Manual Project. It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car–even if its nothing we’...
Streamlined trains and divided highways, but oddly no airplanes, represented state-of-the-art transportation in 1941. If you’ve seen those blue “Eisenhower Interstate System” signs with the General-t...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...
This 1957 Cadillac convertible has been in the same family since 1974. Photos by Terry McGean. Back in 1957, Dinah Shore may famously have encouraged folks to “See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet,” but ...
After 15 years of vision, hard work, collaboration, and divine interventions, the Thomas-Morse S-4B advanced trainer that Don Funke and the many volunteers of the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation ...
The author’s boat and boss on the Sacramento River near Knight’s Landing in Northern California. Photographs by Dan Stoner and Howard Custom Boats. By the early Sixties — let’s say, just before the d...
Look, we’ve been saying for years now that the world is an amazing place, if for no other reason than it has seemed to embrace classic American cars in ways we statesiders could’ve never imagined. Th...
1969 Pontiac GTO convertible (top); 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between...
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
1955 Lincoln Capri Coupe (top image by Richard Lentinello); 1955 Packard Clipper Custom Sedan (bottom image by the author). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles...
1970 Buick Electra 225 convertible (top; image by the author); 1970 Chrysler 300 convertible (bottom; image by Richard Lentinello). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two ...
1991 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1LE; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots....
1939 Mercury Town Sedan (top; image by the author); 1941 Studebaker Commander Sedan Coupe (bottom; image by Jim Donnelly). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles,...
1963 Dodge 330, 426 Max Wedge. Photography by the author unless otherwise credited. Though there may be snow on the ground where you are, just like there is where I live, the 2018 cruising/show seaso...