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Big Willie Robinson’s Daytona, as it looked when acquired by Corey Owens. All photos courtesy Corey Owens. Big Willie Robinson was a larger-than-life figure in the southern California drag racing scene of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Best known as Read more

Transportation was part of the DNA of Connersville, Indiana, long before the automobile was ever conceived. Beginning in the 1830s, it was a port along the Whitewater Canal, which ran 76 miles from the Ohio River to Hagerstown, Indiana, incorporating Read more

Hemmings Motor News readers and advertisers have been its lifeblood for more than half a century – in fact, for nearly 60 years – so in 2014, when we celebrate our 60th anniversary with a retrospective issue, we’d like to Read more

Continuing to imagine how cars that were never sold to the public would have been advertised, I have turned my attentions to the original concept car, Harley Earl’s Buick Y-Job. Created in 1938, the Y-Job wowed audiences with its sleek Read more

If you will, please, ignore the men in spacesuits in front of the cars. They’re just promoting the Robert A. Heinlein-written 1950 film “Destination Moon” in 1951, presumably for an overseas release. But where? That’s where the cars in the Read more