In 1950, the automotive and racing monthly “Speed Age” presented achievement awards to people from motorsport who’d done notable things during the just-concluded season, in keeping with annual custom. The watches that the honorees were presented were made by Univeral Read more…
Remember Miss Belvedere, the ‘57 Plymouth that the fine folks of Tulsa buried when it was new, then unearthed two years ago? Yes, it emerged rusty and crusty, but the effort to preserve the car is ongoing, and for our Read more…
So through the Making of Modern Michigan photo archive, which we highlighted recently, we’ve since found another couple of photo archives: the Portage District Library’s and the much larger Wayne State University Walther Reuter Library’s Virtual Motor City Project, which Read more…
News comes today that the Obama administration and the House have reached some sort of agreement or compromise on cash for clunkers, and the vague news reports make it seem like this compromise has somehow paved the way for this Read more…
See the giant hot-spot around the back of the car, where the sun is reflecting? Yowza! We’ve seen it a million times: car show photos shot at noon. Tired of your car-show shots looking lousy? It may not be your Read more…
By now, you’ve all heard the news of Pontiac’s death sentence, made official earlier this week. We’ve seen plenty of tributes to the best and worst Pontiacs, and all sorts of dining-room-table historians come out of the woodwork to explain Read more…
It’s been a while since we highlighted the ever expanding Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, in which we can reliably find some cool odd stuff, such as the 1934 Goliath Atlas that dave_7 discovered in the Lane Motor Museum. Thought the Read more…
Heading down to Long Island to spend the Easter holiday with the family, I stopped off in Long Island City, Queens, that Saturday, April 11, because my good friend Ducati Lou was putting together an informal get-together of Ducati motorcycles. Read more…
Quick, what type of engine powered the Aerovette? Having a hard time deciding whether it was a four-rotor Wankel or a small-block V-8? Understandable: It used both. See, it started life as the XP-882, a mid-engine design with a 400-cu.in. Read more…
Don’t blame us. We’re not the ones who took the bottle of shoe polish and smeared “Rat Rod Special” across the windshield of this horribly scarred 1958 Chevrolet station wagon. We presume that this wretch, which managed to make it Read more…