So, you’ve crashed your brand-new Austin-Healey. Ugh. Insurance? Shrug. How about, instead, you – and the local panelbeaters – look at it as an opportunity to improve on the work of Donald Healey and...
The facility closure and event cancellation/postponement announcements have slowed down in recent days, but we’re glad to see news like this: Covercraft is using at least some of its facilities to pr...
Our entertainment options these days are, frankly, astounding, as we’ve collectively discovered over the last couple of weeks. Our forebears had a few keen diversionary doodads too, as we see from th...
I’ve lately been giving oxygen to the idea of buying something super cheap and/or free – maybe two somethings super cheap and/or free – and cutting and splicing them together to make some Moreauvian ...
Image via OldCarBrochures. Just as my desk is littered with the crumbs of too many cookies eaten in a horrifyingly violent manner, my memory is littered with the crumbs of the stories I’ve researched...
As December draws to a close, it’s time to look back on another year of Hemmings and what stories readers liked the most on our website. That’s right, here are the Top 10 stories of 2019. We’ve limit...
Now that not only a year, but an entire decade is coming to an end, you’re gonna see a lot of roundup articles rehashing old stories. We’re not above that, of course, but let’s take this opportunity ...
Visitors to the National Auto & Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana, can walk right up to the Mustang and give it close inspection. Photo credit: Richard Lentinello If there was any engineer who had an o...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
We received an email from a subscriber last month, asking to help identify the wood wheel seen here, but came up short. Can you offer any information to determine the origin of the item above? The he...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Not to admonish anybody, but every now and then we receive an otherwise great submission for the Lost and Found department in Hemmings Classic Car that we can’t use because the images are unprintable...
A rare, numbers-matching 1953 Corvette, one of the “lost Corvettes.” Photo courtesy of Dream Car Restorations. Rescued by a group calling itself Corvette Heroes, 36 Corvettes (1953-’82 and 1984-’89) ...
We get the sense (Scotty G., feel free to correct us) that architectural models don’t end up as collectible as, say, the automobilia we’re more familiar with. After all, the models pertain to just on...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
The Beechcraft Plainsman, had it been built, wouldn’t have just been ahead of its time, in some respects it would have been ahead of our time as well. The specs were pretty well laid out in an articl...
In the years since his death, Fred Rogers has been hailed as a champion for educational television, a practitioner of radical kindness and acceptance, and a balm for the ills of our modern world. He ...
This Winfield intake, Cyclone adapter (to install a Stromberg), and RayDay cylinder head were removed from a Model A in 1956. Images courtesy Evan Bailly and as noted. We are suckers for vintage spee...
Ours is a hectic, fast-paced world, in which we can only pause to research miscellany for so long before it’s time to meet another deadline. That’s why, even though we’re sure we’ve seen this wheelco...
Joe Strayhorn in Corvair #6000. Photo courtesy Dave Newell. In the months leading up to the final day of production for the Chevrolet Corvair, General Motors fielded calls from dealers, executives, a...
If anything, it seems as though the pace of prewar car photo submissions to Lost and Found has picked up since we last ran a prewar-only roundup. So get your favorite ID guide at the ready, faithful ...
Photos by Geoff Hacker, except where noted. Photo History Starting in the autumn of 1952 until the spring of 1954 I was a student at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying mechanic...
We received these photos in an email this week, along with a request for us to help identify the palletized engine featured in them. It looks to be a surplus engine that was possibly purchased at a g...
Photos courtesy John Olsson. Everybody remembers the day like it was yesterday. Careening out of control, the Fiat 600 smashed through the doors of the 1955 GM Motorama in Boston. Nobody was hurt, th...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...