Lightly modified 1939 Ford Tudor sedan for sale. From the seller’s description: This is an exceptional, award winning 1939 Ford. It features flawless black clear-coat paint; splotless stainless steel...
Photos courtesy R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. Storage, Mark Memmel said, wasn’t kind to his Oldsmobile Cutlass. Rust ate up about half of the car while it sat, so he ultimately decided to restore ...
School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, except where noted. The race took place over the distance of two telephone poles, or about 60 feet, and the winner never shifted out of first gear, but...
A rooftop view of the 2016 Goodguys Nashville Nationals. Photos courtesy Goodguys. Since 1998, and with a few exceptions, participation at Goodguys car shows and autocross events has been open to Ame...
The mutant vehicles of Burning Man are always good for stretching the definition — if not the concept — of automobiles. Alexandrailer shot a bunch this year. * Japanese Nostalgic Car has the full sto...
Early morning crowds were light, but it filled up by midday. From new to old, there was something for everyone. Photos by Hemmings editorial staff. Changing to a rain date for an event like Musclepal...
Longtime Hemmings Daily readers might recognize Mel Gould as the man behind the Purple People Eater Crosley that appeared on the cover of the December 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Decades late...
Photo by Rijel. Despite a warning from a leading Bonneville scientist that it might not work, the land-speed racers behind Save the Salt have opened talks with a local mining company to return as muc...
Photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Most TV shows get at most one chance to introduce a cool hero car: the A-Team van, KITT, and the Batmobile all pulled solo duty on their respective shows. Not so wit...
Photos courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. You all know Paul Gorrell by now. Built that Crosley sign-turned-scooter. Owns the most complete collection of Crosley prototypes. His latest creation remains...
Stevens-modified Continental. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Typically, it’s a fool’s errand to compare two or more designers, if not due to the subjectivity of aesthetics, then certainly due t...
El Mirage-raced 1939 Ford Model 18 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: It was built right after the Second World War by Art Lellis and Jerry Moffatt. Lellis and Moffatt owned one...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
1951 Ford 8N with Funk six-cylinder conversion. Photos courtesy of Mecum Auctions. Swapping in a big engine for more horsepower isn’t always about hot rodding. Sometimes it’s a matter of putting food...
The Coatesville Invitational Vintage Grand Prix brings classic cars in (rapid) motion to the historic downtown of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Images courtesy Ryan P. McWilliams/Hi-Test Photography. “L...
1940 Ford, excerpt from ad below. Image courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. One memory that I will never forget is about my father’s 1940 Ford Opera Coupe. It had the jump seats in the rear which, when not in u...
The Dadamore might never have progressed beyond the drawings of an eight-year-old boy, but it still caught the attention of AMC Canada President Bill Pickett. Old Cars Canada has the full story on ho...
Photo by the author. Do the little things add up? That’s the question racers and spectators at various Bonneville Salt Flats racing events will get to ask starting later this year when the Save The S...
Photos by Robert Conant. I was born in January, 1940, and I spent the World War II years on my father’s lap reading the automobile ads in the Saturday Evening Post. As a result, I knew the cars of th...
Photos by the author. The Hemmings Great Race presented by Hagerty traveled through Mufreesboro, Tennessee, for lunch on Monday, June 26, and the stage’s finish line was located in the historic Canno...
Image courtesy The Race of Gentlemen. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, especially knowing the naysayers will be quick to crow, “I told you so.” But that’s exactly what Mel Stultz, founder...
The Gentleman Racer this week took a look at all the various re-bodied Cobras, either by Ford itself or by coachbuilders such as Ghia. * Will cars soon be relegated to museum curiosities, or will the...
The backbone of the Los Angeles Roadster Show (LARS) for nearly 60 years has been the Deuce Roadster. Donald Cummings brought his perfect, early-style ’32 Ford down from West Linn, Oregon this year’s...
Fifties-era East Coast hot rodded 1928 Ford Model A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: East Coast Hot Rodding legend, the late Mr. Fred Steele, founder of the Ty-Rods Car Club a...