What exactly makes the Airstream so popular to this day? To answer that question, the National Trust for Historic Preservation spoke with Airstream restorer Matthew Hoffman about the aluminum-clad ca...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor “The shape of things to come.” Indeed, the styling of Triumph’s final sports car would remain timely more than ...
The Simeone Museum’s Ford GT40 Mk IV, constructed by Kar-Kraft. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Kar-Kraft was the independent Michigan contractor behind such legendary Ford perf...
FIVA-lauded 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype. Photo courtesy FIVA. While it makes exceptions for period-modified vehicles in its recently released Charter of Turin Handbook, the Fed...
All materials courtesy General Motors. Editor’s Note Thanks to Harold Kie for sending along the raw materials for this week’s Hemmings In-Depth: An entire advance press kit for the 1984 Pontiac Fiero...
Bookstore shelves are filled with volumes about muscle cars and the muscle-car era, but how many were written by someone who spent their entire life driving the cars, building them, and writing about...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Jeep aficionados are salivating at the prospect of the upcoming Wrangler-based Scrambler pickup truck, rumore...
Brochure from author’s collection. For Austin-Healey enthusiasts, the Holy Grail always has been and always will be the sensational 100 S. Of the 73,728 Austin-Healeys built, only 55 were 100 S model...
While photographing a 1969 Buick Riviera on Long Island recently for a forthcoming feature in Hemmings Classic Car magazine, the car owner, Eric Sporrer, showed me some of the many pieces of original...
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor A twin-turbocharged V-6 engine is at the heart of every Ghibli sedan and Levante SUV (as well as some Quattropo...
piloti, che gente. . . by Enzo Ferrari. Photos by author. Well before he became the world’s most famous carmaker, Enzo Ferrari’s main interest in life was to become a journalist. He was highly articu...
Still from Primus’ “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver.” It shouldn’t surprise most people that songs don’t really mean what they appear to mean at first glance, particularly since rock and roll began shack...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News The United States may still have been suffering the effects of the Great Depression in 1935, but that challenging economic setting only ...
I picked up this third printing of JEG Harwood’s Speed and How to Obtain It at a bookstore while traveling with the Hemmings Great Race this past June. I paid very little for it, but it is full of te...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...
Photo by author. Longtime readers of the Hemmings Daily will recall me mentioning that my parents owned a 1965 GTO when I was very young. It was Burgundy with a black interior, the 360-hp Tri-Power e...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
Brochure images from the collection of Terry Shea. It’s little remembered today, but the original Comet — sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships as a standalone model for two model years — was inte...
Photos by author. Pointblank: If you own a Volvo P1800 or are a longstanding admirer of this fascinating sports car, then you must own this book. Without question, this is the definitive P1800 book —...
Ross Paswell, convicted of auto theft in 1945. Mugshots courtesy angusmcdiarmid on Flickr. They make it look easy in the movies: Fiddle around under the steering wheel, strip some wires, and touch tw...
Prologue It was early morning and the rising sun cast a long misshapen shadow across US 1. At a glance it looked like two gents in frock coats and caps were hunched over the darkened silhouette of a ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News ; courtesy of Bruce Zahor BMW’s M3 is a car that’s spoken of in reverential tones, and if the topic of the ür-M3 arises — that being the...
Photos by Richard Lentinello. Back in the 1960s, and possibly the early ’70s, Lucas Electric Limited of England issued these test cards to assist owners of British-built cars and trucks with any elec...