Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Devoted fans of GM’s Pontiac Motor Division still mourn the 2010 death of the 83-year-old brand, an unfortunate result of the company’s ...
1958 Lincoln Premiere; image by the author. The Lincoln marque can invoke a variety of opinions regarding its status in the domestic luxury car market, especially the Continentals. First-person accou...
Images courtesy of Renault, unless noted. The New York Times and National Public Radio broke a story on March 1 that Musicologist Mark Clague of the University of Michigan, who is in the process of r...
In 1929, the race to make a feasible, mass produced front-wheel-drive car had been won by the Cord L-29 as it beat out the Ruxton. Front-wheel-drive vehicles had proven successful in the racing indus...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Despite an on-again, off-again production run that spanned decades, the Marcos GT remained truly unique in the sports car world. Here wa...
If you’ve been a passenger in an enclosed car or truck more than twice in your lifetime, odds are pretty good that an air freshener was dangling from a radio knob or the rear view mirror. You would h...
All art and photography courtesy of HotRod Jen. We first met “HotRod” Jen Thomas (née Skidmore) back in November of 2013 when writing a piece for Speedobilia in Hemmings Muscle Machines (issue #125) ...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News It’s fascinating to look at Ford’s lineup for the 1980 model year and to realize that only two of the eight nameplates are still in use toda...
We spotted an interesting item that was recently sold on an online auction site, a Willys-Knight Moving Piston Sleeve Cutaway Demonstrator model. The model has a knob on the back of the unit for rota...
Photos courtesy National Packard Museum. Since 2001, the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, has hosted an annual antique motorcycle exhibit, many of which have drawn top honors from the Antique...
The Savoy Camera from the 1961 Mercury-Comet Prize-O-Rama contest; image by the author Pop quiz: What’s the fastest means to get foot traffic into a dealership? A mass mailing claiming that the count...
1951 Vincent White Shadow, in Chinese Red. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Pre-auction estimates turned out to be a tad low for the top-selling lot at Bonhams’s Las Vegas motorcycle sale, held on January...
The (presumably abandoned) Litchfield Garage in Rio, Illinois. Photo by Pete Zarria. Have you ever run a successful auto repair business? Are you good with people? Do you think you have what it takes...
Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...
This 1908 Harley-Davidson bid to $400,000, but failed to meet its reserve. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 25th-annual MidAmerica motorcycle auction featured five bikes that cracked the $100,...
Photography by the author. More than a dozen years ago, when I was younger and more beautiful and working for another magazine, I spearheaded a couple of new-car comparisons that were real eye-opener...
Frontenac performance equipment; image by the author Until recently, Chevy and Ford battled for supremacy annually, both at the showroom and on race tracks. This decades-long rivalry, in turn, has le...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
Under new ownership and reeling from a decline in the snowmobile market, Rupp Manufacturing needed a home-run product to reverse its fortunes in 1974. Its roll-of-the-dice gamble was the Centaur, a t...
1910 Royal Pioneer. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In addition to the 25th-annual Mecum MidAmerica Motorcycle Auction taking place in early January, collectors of vintage two-wheeled iron will be ...
VX-6 cadmium battery additive; image by the author Although there may be two certainties in life, as the old joke goes, the number is far greater when it comes to the automobile. In fact, if you real...
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely ...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Arguably influenced by the Jaguar E-type and a runaway sales success from the moment it hit U.S. shores, Datsun’s Z car inspired a generatio...
Cox Chaparral slot car kit; image by the author This is it; the big race. Your car is perfectly positioned on the grid for maximum launch. The gearing, tires and motor have all been checked and reche...
Images are from the brochure collection of Mark J. McCourt Porsche is one of a handful of European automakers – Mercedes-Benz and Volvo being other notables- that has, for decades, offered a European...