There’s a lot to glean from this half-hour film that the American Roadbuilders Association produced in 1957 to help smooth the road, so to say, for the coming Interstate Highway System. While the tra...
Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...
Rugged cars meant to last decades and be easily repairable by just about anyone were just the ticket for Africa, thought Tony Howarth, whose 2CV-powered Africar showed promise but didn’t reach produc...
As we continue to mourn the untimely loss of builder, racer, personality, host and all-around gearhead talent, Jessi Combs, she’s come up in conversations and references all over the place. And a thi...
As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...
There's no denying that the C4 Corvette is, at this point, as symbolic as the Testarossa when it comes to synthwave/outrun aesthetic. Paweł Wodek of Go Harder Media put aesthetics, a killer soundtrac...
We spend a whole lot of our waking hours, here at Hemmings, talking about the new kids. The younger generations. Passing the baton. What’s gonna happen with all the stuff we love so much, after we’ve...
Photo via NHRA. Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, died earlier this month at the age of 89. If you’re not a hardcore drag racing fan (or if you weren’t paying close attention to the story ...
Ever wonder how school buses almost universally came to wear not just yellow but a specific shade of yellow ? Smithsonian Magazine dug up the answer, which has less to do with caprice and more to do ...
Coming from Renault itself, this documentary on the Renault 5 is admittedly tilted to portray the 5 in a positive light. That said, it was a successful small car that spent nearly a quarter century o...
Anybody living along the Lincoln Highway, keep an eye out for an UltraVan making its way westward. * Some of the mutant cars on the playa at Burning Man are simple conglomerations, others are stateme...
Henry Ford, undoubtedly, helped to shape the automobile industry and the peoplescape of southeast Michigan with his offer of a $5 per day wage in 1914. It more than doubled the existing wages and led...
What’s more awesome than an early Fox-body Mustang? An early Fox-body Mercury Capri, of course! And to celebrate the auction we’re hosting of one very cool and very red-pleathered, t-topped, low-mile...
As pointed out in this Vox video exploring what made Route 66 America’s favorite road, the highway has essentially been defunct for twice as long as it was an active part of American transportation r...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
When we were looking around and talking about our lead story this week, we got to talking about the idea of the parts-getter. The swapmeet hauler. The pickup truck. And when we listed the rare-as-hen...
The Ford Taurus, as Tofer discusses in this video on the origins and development of the Eighties hit, may very well have saved the bacon of a carmaker then shedding a billion dollars a year, but it w...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...
OK – full disclosure, here: we may have tested your patience last week with a truly terrible movie. But look, there’s some beauty in a bad movie. If you can suspend reality for an hour or so and let ...
For perhaps the best coverage of the recent Citroen centennial bash, we have to look no further than Citroenvie! a huge conglomeration of Citroëns of every model. The assembly of Traction Avants alon...
In Episode 2 of In the Shop with StanceWorks, Mike takes us "From Then to Now" with a brief look back at the history of his E36 and its current condition as its prepped for a complete build overhaul....
Do we have a treat for you, this week: a terrible movie! Look, there’s an art to a bad movie. It takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to actually endure it from one end to the other, but li...
Dieter Deswarte doesn’t care about the Lada’s development, where it was built, how much power its engine was good for. Instead, as we see in his short film, “ Lada,” he’s more concerned with where th...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
So, this week, we’ve been all about the Riviera: 1st-gen, 2nd-gen and all the rest. Well, there might’ve been a few years there in the ’80s we could probably forget about, but hey – Z Cavariccis and ...