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2015 Great Race, day one – outside the hotel in Kirkwood, Missouri. Photos by Matt Litwin. Editor’s note: Hemmings senior editor Matt Litwin is on the road with the 2015 edition of The Great Race. Look for regular updates from this year’s trek across Route 66, from Kirkwood, Missouri to Read more
The 1964 Ford GT concept. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In January of 2015, Ford announced that an all-new Ford GT supercar would be hitting dealer showrooms in late 2015 as a 2016 model. In June, at Le Mans, it confirmed the worst-kept secret in the automotive world: in 2016, Read more
Still image from video below. New car introductions were quite a bit different in 1960 than they are today, and to roll out its space-age 1960 models, Ford spared no expense. Complete with its own musical score and revelers bedecked in formal attire, this short video is a glimpse at Read more
In my newspaper days, I always appreciated how certain newsroom photographers had a knack for going out and getting great shots from everyday occurrences, and the photo above, published in July 1965 in the Greenville Daily Reflector, illustrates that knack. East Carolina University’s Digital Collections, where we came across the Read more
In 1967, if you wanted the most luxurious wagon your friendly neighborhood Ford dealer offered, you’d have driven away in a Country Squire. The top-of-the-line Country Squire was the 10-passenger model with third-row facing fold-down seats, like this car featured in Hemmings Motor News back in 2006. To move a Read more
Photos courtesy Mitch Medford, Bloodshed Motors. In the old George Romero zombie flicks, the living dead shuffled around like narcoleptic grannies in their bunny slippers. More recent movies have the undead jumping, climbing and running as fast or faster than those fighting them off. Mitch Medford’s zombi-fied electric Mustang falls Read more
Best-in-Show Pre-War went to the 1913 Mercedes 37/95 owned by The Nethercutt Collection. Photos courtesy San Marino Motor Classic. The idea of a supercar, developed without regard to cost to produce the maximum performance attainable from a road-going automobile, is nothing new. While today the term is defined by the Read more
A 1933 Auburn 12-165 Salon Speedster on display at Pebble Beach in 2014. Photo by Kurt Ernst. In the not-too-distant past, attending the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the primary reason that automotive-minded visitors flocked to California’s Monterey Peninsula each August. Sure, there were auctions to attend and, perhaps, vintage Read more
Brochure images are from the Hemmings archives Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser was one of the first models that established the company in the USA, starting in 1957, and the FJ40 variant would have an incredible 23-year production run, beginning in 1960. Those capable workhorse FJs didn’t have the mass appeal Read more
We know that this Cadillac-powered 1951 Allard K2 for sale on Hemmings.com shows well, given the long string of awards it’s already won. We’d suspect it would also do well on road rallies and other long drives too, given the disc brake and five-speed installations; after all, what good do Read more