Photo by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Co. For the third time this summer, the public auction record for the Lamborghini Countach has fallen, after a 1974 Countach LP400 Periscopica sold for $1.87 million over the weekend. While the first Read more
Photo by the author. (Continuing the conversation from the other day about the pending generational shift in car collecting, Hemmings Director of Marketing Dan Stoner, who participated in last week’s panel discussion, penned the following.) I found myself compelled to Read more
1954 Shell Oil advertisement from the author’s collection. Back in the 1950s, the phrase “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” applied to far more than just new automobiles. As a major sponsor of racing events around the world, Shell Oil’s Read more
Just a couple years after the Sundown Drive-in on the outskirts of Canberra (Symonston, according to Google Maps) opened, this photo of a packed house that we came across in the National Archives of Australia’s collection on Flickr was taken. Read more
Granted, it’s tough to come up with uses for this 1952 Crosley CD fire truck for sale on Hemmings.com if you don’t already have an amusement park. It’s not a likely candidate for conversion into an actual fire-fighting apparatus, and Read more
The former Jacksonville Ford plant, as it looks today. Photos by Chris Brewer, unless otherwise indicated. Editor’s note: This story comes to us from Chris Brewer of Jacksonville, Florida. Chris is a contributor to the Florida Times Union newspaper, and Read more
Last Monday, a Lincoln Towncar carrying a woman and her one-year-old granddaughter T-boned an 18-wheeler after attempting to merge. The huge resulting crash, massive explosion, and raging inferno is the trifecta of horror for any driver. Or, at least it Read more
Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Performance, Misc. Auto Shows, Ferrari, Specialty, Luxury For the first time in the event’s 64-year history, the prestigious Best In Show honor at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been awarded to a Ferrari. The 1954 Read more
Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Porsche, Specialty, Racing Will Roegge has turned his camera on Jeff Zwart and provided another gem, this time documenting Zwart’s run up Pikes Peak and BBI Autosport. Bertim Besha dropped out of high school, Read more
Photo by Jeff Koch. Everything’s coming up Maranello thoroughbreds at Monterey this year. First, a Ferrari takes the world auction record Thursday night, setting the vanguard for at least a couple of other eight-figure Ferrari sales around the peninsula. Then Read more