Photo by stopnlook. If the first car race happened as soon as two primitive automobiles lined up next to one another, then the first performance modifications came shortly after that very contest. Mo...
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
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...
Image courtesy Ceramicspeed. One of the most talked-about designs in the world of human-powered two-wheelers right now isn’t another e-bike or fat bike, surprisingly. Instead, it’s an innovative chai...
Photo by David-O. RVing started long before the advent of the motor vehicle, but as Terence Young argued for the Smithsonian’s newsletter this past week, it “crossed a bridge” in 1915 when Roland and...
Jaywalking simply didn’t exist before the automobile, so how did it — both the term and the crime — come about? According to this deep dive into the history of jaywalking, it was actually a concerted...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
It’s a good bet that the 1921 Ballot straight-eight that John Ballard Engineering recently assembled for a customer may be the last time anybody will take on such a project. Fortunately, Ballard docu...
Gear Wrench, a subsidiary of the Apex Tool Group located in Sparks, Maryland, produces a lot more hand tools than their patented ratcheting wrenches. Recently released new items include chrome molybd...
I rated this 1938 Graham 97 Supercharged, bodied by Saoutchik, a condtion 1 car for its excellent restoration with no discernible faults. Photos by author. One of our primary areas of coverage here a...
Still image captured from public domain film hosted on the Internet Archive. This educational film employs various teaching aids such as animation, component cutaways, exploded views, working transpa...
As an old computer returns to its original owner, we wonder: Are old-car fans so different from vintage appliance fetishists? Photo by Rama. Are you a tech fetishist? I am not. Computers have, tradit...
1963 Dodge 330, 426 Max Wedge. Photography by the author unless otherwise credited. Though there may be snow on the ground where you are, just like there is where I live, the 2018 cruising/show seaso...
The fuel gauge on my Ford A/B speedster is from a World War II P-51-B Mustang fighter plane. Unfortunately, it stopped working just in time for the car’s maiden run. When you’re building cars—especia...
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...
Photo courtesy MACS worldwide. The EPA established rules concerning the purchase of automotive refrigerant as part of the United States Clean Air Act. When enacted in 1992 as section 609 of the law, ...
My ’31 Ford speedster often gets neglected during the cold, dark winter months, but this time will be different. Here it is with its hood and radiator removed to make it quicker and easier for me to ...
Photo by Terry McGean. “Where will you put that thing? There’s no room on my workbench!” Dad was angry. This wasn’t the first time I appropriated his “sanctuary,” the only place in our house where he...
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...
Photos by the author. Daily driving a 1988 Volvo 244DL is more fun than it should be. Five speeds, air conditioning, lumbar support, and an engine that will run forever. Like many cars of the era, ho...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. Most Route 66 travelers have probably seen – even snapped photos of – the 1968 Pontiac Catalina in Glenrio, Texas. Few, however, probably know the whole story behind the Pontia...
The Rambler Rebel’s basic design program was innovative and set the tone for the future of a distinct class of automobile. The car itself also had very innovative components, among them electronic fu...
1955 Morris Minor Traveller. All images by author. Project cars are inherently a compromise. For more performance, you ultimately give up something that the factory engineers spent countless dollars ...
No restoration project is truly complete without a set of the factory-issued tools that originally came with the car. Through the years the tools are usually the first item that gets misplaced and lo...
In the last few minutes of direct sunlight, this photo was taken. Notice the intense directional light and how the grille and front suspension details pop. The exposure info is F8 aperture with a 1/8...