An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
Some of the video that Tom Roche and Chris Osburn of Roche Photo Collective captured of our relaunch issue feature car! In our work producing Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine, we tend to meet some i...
Photos courtesy Beaulieu National Motor Museum. Like many a children’s tale going back to the Brothers Grimm, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang might initially come across as airy, innocent, and fantastical — ...
During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...
Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns — towns that did not allow blac...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Why is a nearly 40-year-old collection of speculative fiction about cars gone bad worth rediscovering? The simple answer is that we might find some solace in past cultu...
Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...
Photos courtesy JosefGanz.org. Though they came about €30,000 short of their crowdfunding goal, the duo behind the restoration of one of the few remaining Beetle predecessors built by Jewish designer...
Photos courtesy Lime Rock Park, unless otherwise noted. Opened in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1957, Lime Rock Park has played host to driving greats, unforgettable races, and memorable moments too num...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Hemmings archive photo. Senior designer Frank Hershey had been working on the rear fender design idea that had first come to him before the war, when Harley Earl led the field trip to Selfridge air b...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II – while a best-selle...
All images courtesy the author. When America’s favorite automotive journalist tested “one of the snappiest little cars on the road” in Buffalo, New York, he was mobbed at every stop. “The sheered off...
Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...
1968 Plymouth Road Runner. Ad courtesy Lov2XLR8. A casual observer may have said that Mopar had all the muscle cars it needed in 1967, but Chrysler’s market research indicated that simply wasn’t the ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...
Headed towards Kluane Lake. Photos by the author. We awoke groggily to sounds coming from Kevin, Jim and Bill’s side of camp. I unzipped from the bear burrito and followed my nose to find Kevin makin...
Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
The story of Richard Bosley of Mentor, Ohio, typically gets doled out in drips and drops in stories about his two hand-built cars, the Mark I and the Interstate. While it’s no biography, the booklet ...
For automotive enthusiasts, nothing could be more fascinating than to see cars being built. From piles of raw materials sitting on a factory floor to the fully assembled automobile rolling off the as...
You can’t beat the old Sears catalogs as reference material. Photos by the author. One of the neatest references for everyday-material culture of the past is a Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalog. Sea...