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Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Photo by Carl Grant. Of the 48 states outside of Michigan that at one point saw automobile production, perhaps none had developed its automotive industry quite as extensively as Indiana, a state that some believe Read more

Still image from video below. I’m a pushover for old driver’s education videos, and this one is entertaining. Digitized and uploaded by A/V Geeks for the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco, this film was produced in 1964. It’s called The Read more

Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Big things happened at General Motors for model year 1977, including the hugely successful redesign of the full-sized models that saw them dropping inches and pounds… up to 12 inches and Read more

The advantage of doing carspotting scenes from Bennington (to us, anyways) is that we don’t have to spend a lot of time identifying the location. For instance, these two photos from the Vermont Landscape Change program show Northside Drive in Read more

With a couple of Mille Miglias under its belt, its original engine, and a complete history – not to mention simply being one of the limited-production SMM competition versions patterned after a car driven to prominence by Tazio Nuvolari – Read more

Photo by Andrew Seaman. With smaller-than-expected cuts to the ethanol mandate released on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency signaled its willingness to surpass the ethanol blend wall, spurring many to call for a revamp of the Renewable Fuel Standard. While Read more

The 426 Street Hemi. Photos courtesy FCA. Neither the 426-cu.in. V-8 nor hemispherical cylinder heads were new ideas at Chrysler in 1962, but it was Tom Hoover and his group that married the two in an attempt to build an Read more

All photos are frame grabs from video below. The modern motor car demands equally modern roads. Here’s how it’s accomplished. “What’s wrong with this picture?” asks the narrator. Clearly, it’s that the driver of the covered wagon is poking along Read more