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...
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...
From a 1941 Ethyl Gasoline Corporation ad, via Plan59. Living in the suburbs in the late 1950s, author Betty Friedan preserved her writing time by having a taxi transport her children to school. Frie...
Changing Gears: The Development of the Automotive Transmission by Philip G. Gott The automatic transmission is the most complex automobile component ever created. Although I understand the foundation...
“Ask the Man Who Owns One: An Illustrated History of Packard Advertising” by Arthur W. Einstein, Jr. Imaginative advertising sells. And few automobile companies were better at the task of getting the...
“Ask the Man Who Owns One: An Illustrated History of Packard Advertising” by Arthur W. Einstein, Jr. Imaginative advertising sells. And few automobile companies were better at the task of getting the...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
Books courtesy of Cornell Babcock. Photos by author. First printed back in the late 1950s, this digest-size softcover book was part of the Modern Sports Car Series published by Sports Car Press in Ne...
Ayrton Senna was one of Formula 1’s shining stars in the modern era, and his ten-year career atop the highest rung of the motorsport ladder was filled with both triumph and tragedy. A new book, Ayrto...
In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa ...
Review by John L. Jacobus. This is a book about an Ed Roth fanatic, an amateur hot rodder and gearhead, namely Jeffrey A. Jones of Bakersfield, California, who created a clone of Ed Roth’s famous Mys...
We were south of Chicago on I-80, in triple-digit temperatures and bumper-to-bumper traffic, when my fuel-injected 1977 Volkswagen Scirocco sputtered, coughed, and then died in the center lane. The w...
Words and photographs by Peter Doherty. I have a little paperback book on my bookshelf that somehow has survived nearly 50 years of life changes and house moves. The publication date inside says 1966...
Photos courtesy of Airstream, Inc. By far the most iconic travel trailer on American (and international) roads, the Airstream brand has been with us since the company’s first models were built by Wal...
Photography by author. As I’ve said in the past, sometimes good car stuff turns up where you least expect it to be. My latest fun find was at my local library’s book sale. I know: big surprise to fin...
Like a strong foundation for a building, you need a solid base of knowledge to understand whatever it is that interests you. For us automotive enthusiasts it’s equally important to understand how all...
Photos by author. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s Motorbooks International published a line of small hardcover books called the Osprey AutoHistory series. These compact books were 7 1/2 x 8 1/2...
eDaily Book Review How sad is it that very few books on Oldsmobile have ever been published? Being one of America’s greatest brands, and having lasted 107 years, you would think publishers would have...
They are considered the most coveted Porsches ever created. Be it the nimble little 550 Spyder, the 356 Carrera or the stunningly beautiful 904, the one common element that binds them together is Por...
Longtime friend of Hemmings Motor News Randy Rundle, owner of Fifth Avenue Antique Auto Parts, has recently released a new technical publication about a common problem all vintage car owners have run...
Scans of book from author’s collection. Back in the spring of 1971 I was in my freshman year of high school and one of our English assignments that semester was to read a book of our choice and write...