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Photos courtesy Bantam Jeep Historic Festival. Our look at the Bantam Reconnaissance Car’s 75th anniversary and its attendant celebrations earlier this week was by no means meant to serve as a comprehensive history of the first jeep – plenty of Read more

Why do exact dates and locations matter so much in our carspotting series? After all, isn’t it enough to just enjoy the old cars and try our hands at identifying them based on scant details and partially revealed forms? Sure, Read more

Before I came to Hemmings Motor News, I wrote about new cars for a living. That meant driving a lot of them, in some cases two or three examples per week, ranging from the mundane to the sublime. Ask me Read more

L88 cutaway by David Kimble, image courtesy GM Media. Larger automobile engines have been built. Smaller engines have made more horsepower. A variety of other engines have won more races. Yet few V-8s have offered massive displacement to performance-hungry hordes Read more

The 1990 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo donated by John J. Case.  Photos courtesy Simeone Museum. By the late 1980s, the Nissan (formerly Datsun) Z had morphed from low-cost and light-weight sports car into a semi-luxurious grand-tourer. The 1990 Z32 version, Read more

  Editor’s note: Ryan Chirnomas is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington, D.C. In this series, he examines the intersection of those fields by looking at design patents—which protect aesthetics rather than functionality—of the forgotten and forgettable Read more