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A few weeks back on Hemmings Radio, we kicked around the topic of what makes a car collectible. While rarity comes into play, perhaps the biggest single factor is relevance, which explains why once-common cars occasionally become sought-after by those Read more

Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Jeffrey Ross, whose work has appeared in various outlets including the Hemmings Daily, Autoblog, Road & Track and Off-Road.com. Of all the rides and attractions to experience when visiting Disney World, few Read more

As we can see from the modern-day Street View of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and 23rd Street in Los Angeles, where this group of photos was taken in February 1956, as we can see from the USC Digital Libraries, Read more

Every now and then we see a restoration shop or specialist’s business listed in the Hemmings classifieds, but this automotive sculpture business for sale on Hemmings.com is an enterprise like no other, constructing one-off hand-built scale wireframes of popular cars. Read more

Superformance’s Corvette Grand Sport, photo courtesy Superformance. Though it seemed like it was going nowhere fast since it first came to light over the summer, the federal legislation designed to ease restrictions on builders of replica cars leapfrogged into law Read more

The SAC Fire Boid, testing at Indianapolis in April of 1955. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Ironically, the first turbine-powered Indy Car wasn’t built to run in the Indianapolis 500, though it did test at the track and was used Read more

Touring, the Great Automobile Card Game. Image by the author. By definition, the word touring means to take part in a tour. When the buggy went horseless, it also took on the definition of a body style in which people Read more