Italian, mid-engine, and stylish, it’s a 1980 Fiat X1/9 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is my very clean 1981 Fiat X1/9. Own and enjoy a mid-engined, rear wheel driv...
Photo credit: Barrett-Jackson Craig Jackson grew up in the auction world. The company founded by his parents and Tom Barrett started in 1971, when Craig was still young. He started running the compan...
Photo by Simopala. Up until late last year, the California Coastal Commission has pursued actions that would severely curtail off-highway vehicle use from Oceano Dunes, the state’s only coastal State...
Photos courtesy the author’s collection. In November of 1964, my Uncle Al bought a 1962 Chevrolet Biscayne 2-door sedan from a Milwaukee dealer’s used car lot. The car was bottom of the line, basic b...
We’ve never shied away from preaching that old cars and trucks should be driven, so we were happy to see in some recent correspondence that Bill Bennett continued to use his 1959 Morris Minor pickup ...
Bonhams has long been a staple of the mid-January Scottsdale, Arizona, auction scene, with the auction currently located at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. This one-day sale, which began mid-mornin...
If you wanted the very first production 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and were ready to fork over anything less than $3,000,000, well, it wasn’t meant to be. That was the winning bid at Barrett-Ja...
Since FCA introduced the Hellcat performance trim for the long-lived third-generation Hemi–and especially since it introduced the crate version a couple years back–bench racers have envisioned droppi...
Photo by the author. It seats just one, has no luxury amenities, sports zero-wheel drive, and its original design didn’t change for 20 years. Still, the car that Jim Mariol, a former Chrysler illustr...
Provided photos. As a kid, did you try to draw cars that combined features of several favorite models? Dmitry Khudobin gets inspiration like that today. He’s got a book full of designs, and, working ...
Ever like a car so much that you wanted to buy its replacement, only to find that the car company never bothered to make a replacement? I’ve done this. Three times now. First was with my ’92 Nissan N...
Photo by Tim Oram. After finding dozens of aftermarket parts companies in violation of the Clean Air Act for selling emissions defeat devices last year, the Environmental Protection Agency has announ...
Who doesn’t love it when the product of ill-gotten gains are taken away in a public court? It’s best to avoid schadenfreude as a general rule, as there’s no virtue in taking delight in the misfortune...
Photo courtesy of Chevrolet We’re taking an occasional dip into the new car world to share the news of the 2020 North American Car, Truck, and Utility Vehicle of Year award. Every year since 1994, a ...
It was almost 15 years ago that I was sitting in my apartment in Queens, New York. A foot of snow was on the ground and, at the time, I was getting my feet wet in the automotive industry. A few years...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
Photos courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Brandon Anderson didn’t come up short for superlatives when describing the latest donation to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. As well he should: The ...
2008 Jeep Renegade. All images courtesy FCA. Since the turn of the century or so, carmakers burnished their green credentials with concept vehicles that were meant in some way to rely on traction mot...
It’s a 2000 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG for sale on Hemmings.com. 349 horsepower might not seem like much today, but in the year 2000 it was 4 hp more than the base Chevrolet Corvette had. From the seller’...
Photo by the author. In the annals of automotive history lie the names of thousands of dead carmakers. While most of them remain long-forgotten, some still carry enough cachet for occasional attempts...
Somehow we missed this engine at the 2019 SEMA Show, probably mistaking it for two V-8 placed very close together. A V-16, after all, is not something you see very often, and a brand new one is even ...
A rendering of what part of the proposed museum would look like. The plan includes a functional drive-in restaurant patterned on Burge’s, one of the turnarounds on the Modesto cruise route of the ’50...
Jack working on Nebulous Theorem XII. Photo via JackCostella.com. For 50 years, Jack Costella returned to the salt at Bonneville in what amounted to a decades-long science experiment, probing the lim...
Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. Bertone was once one of the greatest Italian design and coachbuilding houses. Its credits include styling icons such as the Lancia Str...
Over the holidays, it seems some thieves in Moscow decided to treat themselves to a Christmas present: Stalin’s ZiS-115 armored limousine. Local media say the vehicle belonged to the head of security...