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We have reader salguod (Doug Schaefer) to thank for pointing us in the direction of these World War I-era panoramic photographs, which we’d almost forgotten about until researching our recent post on the Japanese Mercer racers from that time period. Read more

Or, the very limited history of the first Japanese race car drivers in the United States. As many of these stories start, I was poking around in old motoring journals and caught sight of a brief mention of two Japanese Read more

Currently, concept cars of the ’50s and ’60s = teh hotness. Then how about concept cars of the 1980s? Say, for example, the 1989 Ford Ghia Saguaro, a precursor to today’s crossovers? It debuted at the 1988 Turin Auto Show, Read more

Thanks to Kevin Gibbs, I recently got to pen one of the most interesting stories I’ve written lately. Certainly the strangest. See, Kevin wrote in asking us whether we’d heard of a fiberglass three-wheeled car from 1974-1975 called the Dale Read more

Hemmings Nation acolyte and nationally acclaimed railroad photographer Jim Shaughnessy hasn’t just witnessed the last of big American steam assaulting the Rockies. He’s now also gotten an eyeful of something that 99 percent of Earth’s population, more or less, has Read more

A fire truck is a fire truck, right? Except when it’s a triple, or a quad, or in active versus reserve duty. Dig below the surface of red paint and wailing sirens, as Donald Wood did for his article on Read more

* Okay, so I got a little stupid for six-wheelers this past week. Believe me, I could have dug much deeper into the topic, as the folks behind oto6.fr have done. Their only objective: To collect as many photos and Read more

We’re assuming the “H.Duval, 93 Rue Thiers, Boulogne/Siene” on the coachbuilder’s plate attached to this 1924 Amilcar C4 currently for sale on Hemmings.com is the same Carrosserie Charles Duval in Boulogne-sur-Seine that made a name for itself building roadster bodies Read more

Just as we here at Hemmings take pride in the Hemmings Nation of readers, commenters and contributors, our friends across the pond over at BigLorryBlog take equal pride in their Anorak Army of readers and contributors, many of whom actually Read more

Let’s try something different this week. Throughout the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve always focused on how the cars and the companies that built them can be connected. But we’ve yet to examine how the people who Read more