Photo by Barry Dale Gilfry. National Park Service officials who have worked on the federal grant program dedicated to preserving what’s left of Route 66 say they will continue to support the program ...
Last week, a team of self-promotional morons set off to break the existing coast-to-coast driven speed record. My colleague and fellow Hemmings editor Jeff Koch recently wrote about the media respons...
Last week, a team of drivers set off to break the existing coast-to-coast driven speed record–from the Red Ball Garage in Brooklyn, New York, to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California—a pat...
Our entertainment options these days are, frankly, astounding, as we’ve collectively discovered over the last couple of weeks. Our forebears had a few keen diversionary doodads too, as we see from th...
We recently came across some of G. Gordon Davis’ renderings on Facebook and not long after landed hip-deep in an amazing collection of Chrysler, Corvette, and various other concept renderings from th...
Some people think that cars might be too dangerous, expensive, and bad for the environment. What may surprise you is that some people thought that back in 1966. The Great Love Affair, preserved and p...
We’ve already seen how Americans were sold on the Interstate Highway System as it started to connect cities across the country in the Fifties and we’ve seen how, less than a decade later, Americans h...
For this weekend’s Radwood show in Los Angeles, Honda took one of its first Acura SUVs, a 1997 SLX, and not only updated its engine and transmission but also its entire all-wheel-drive system. For th...
There’s a lot to glean from this half-hour film that the American Roadbuilders Association produced in 1957 to help smooth the road, so to say, for the coming Interstate Highway System. While the tra...
Court Avenue, Bellefontaine (left) and Woodward Avenue, Detroit (right). Photos courtesy AA Roads (left) and American Concrete Pavement Association (right). Earlier this year, a handful of Michigan g...
Photo by Mark Heard. For decades, Lombard Street – the so-called “crookedest street in the world” – has served as one of the essential tourist stops in San Francisco, as instantly recognizable as the...
Anybody living along the Lincoln Highway, keep an eye out for an UltraVan making its way westward. * Some of the mutant cars on the playa at Burning Man are simple conglomerations, others are stateme...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. For 20 years, those looking to revitalize Route 66 have relied on a relatively modest trickle of money from Congress to accomplish their goals — a modest trickle that will soon ...
Photo by David Cantu. Highways these days are pretty sterile places. Sure, they’re far more efficient, safe, and standardized than the highways of the first several decades of the motoring era, but w...
As you top a rise near Powell, Tennessee, you’ll see the former Nickle filling station, a building in the shape of an airplane that has been the subject of a recent preservation effort. The Nickle br...
Colorado’s Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway. Photo by Jeffrey Beall. Though it may provide a vista here and there, America’s interstate highway system was designed with speed and efficienc...
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...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
Photo by Chris Shervey. With the entirety of the Alaska Highway now paved, it may no longer prove necessary to traverse it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but a group of Jeep owners plans to do just t...
The Defender is dead, right? Not so fast. As Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked reported, a British businessman hasn’t let Jaguar Land Rover’s denial of permission to continue the Defender’s production st...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Vintage Road Construction Equipment Enthusiasts: Yeah, baby! Concrete Enthusiasts: This is your lucky day! Stimulating Narration Enthusiasts: Not so much....
Photo by Vincent Lammin. Other highways came before it. Others stretched farther. Others probably conducted more traffic throughout the country. But no highway gets more recognition or praise than Ro...