Back in January, Christian Meunier took over as Nissan’s U.S. chief of sales and marketing, and a week into the position he challenged the company’s ad agencies to come up with better advertising. What was wrong with the brand’s ad Read more
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News. Pop quiz: when was the first MG sedan built? MG sedan! you may say, but MG built sports cars! It’s true, and the first MG sedan — saloon, in the Read more
Ford is building 300 copies of the F-150 MVP Edition to celebrate the Kansas City Royals winning the 2015 World Series Championship. The special trucks, of course, are all produced at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant. The 2016 Ford F-150 Read more
There’s some downtown revitalization planning going on here in Bennington lately, which probably doesn’t mean much to 99 percent of you, but nevertheless benefits 100 percent of you via these carspotting photos we liberated from one of the planning reports Read more
Check out Uncle Jimmy’s shiny red 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible that would solidify a muscle car zeal in 9 year old Paul Kilker that continues to this day.
So check it out: The thoughtful original owner of this 1962 Lotus Elite for sale on Hemmings.com thoughtfully disassembled the entire car 50-something years ago, saving its eventual restorer that big time-consuming step. And almost everything has remained with the Read more
First-generation 1970 Toyota Corolla. Photos courtesy Toyota. In November of 1966, Toyota launched a new model in the Japanese market, slotting in below the popular Corona. Called the Corolla, it was Toyota’s affordable response to the “motorization boom” that saw Read more
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car show limited to restyled pre-1952 automobiles, Read more
Small parts and hardware organizers like these can be purchased from various sources. Photos by author. If you’ve read my blogs over the past few years, you know that some of them deal with my organizational efforts in the garage Read more
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manufacturer, he’d run the idea Read more