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Photo courtesy Saratoga Auto Museum. What’s cooler than looking at well-restored old cars? Driving them, naturally. The Saratoga Automobile Museum’s big spring car show next month includes its traditional kickoff event, the Collector’s Tour, which ranges across eastern New York for adventures in driving and dining. This year’s tour takes Read more
All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Mercedes-Benz and muscle car used to be mutually exclusive terms, although you’d never know that by looking at the plethora of AMG models available -14 models sharing five engines!- in today’s U.S. lineup. This formerly independent tuning firm, whose initials Read more
We’d venture a guess that these two photos of Rochester in the 1950s, which came from the same trove of photos that reader Rich Harris came across, were taken on the same rainy day and not far from the previous pair of photos from the trove, which would place these Read more
1975 Iso Grifo. Photos by Jeff Koch. First shown as a concept in Turin, Italy, in 1963, the Iso Grifo was the Italian automaker’s second attempt at a Bertone-styled grand tourer. Like the four-seat Rivolta IR 300 that preceded it, the two-seat Grifo, launched in 1965, relied upon a blend Read more
Lowrider on the Dixie Highway in Louisville, Kentucky. Photos by Erik Paul Howard. Though often considered an automotive subculture geographically limited to Southern California, lowriding has spread across the country, from South Central to Kentucky and from New Mexico to Chicago. That nationwide reach—along with the culture and the aesthetic Read more
AMA and MVMA specification documents. Photo by author. Nowadays, when we discuss optional equipment for vintage cars, usually it boils down to the more they have the better. They add to eye appeal at the shows, and of course, as was true in yesteryear, they can increase the resale value. Read more
Do you have a passion for the Jaguar E-Type? Would you like to learn more about the car’s history, read drive reports and comb through restoration profiles, as published in the pages of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car? For readers with an Apple iPad or an Android equivalent, Jaguar E-Type Read more
Context is everything for our carspotting photos, which is why we try to pinpoint an exact date and location for them all, whenever possible. Knowing when and where a photo was taken helps determine, for example, the relative ages of the cars on the road in different parts of the Read more
Full disclosure: This 1991 Nissan 300ZX 2+2, for sale on Hemmings.com, is owned by regular Hemmings Daily reader Don Homuth, but that has no bearing on our choosing it as a Find of the Day. As a time-capsule example of Nissan’s brilliant Z32 300ZX, the car stands on its own, Read more
1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Raindrop prototype. Photos by Darin Schnable, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. In 1958, five Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertibles were pulled from production and sent to GM’s Styling Center for modification. These design-exercise Cadillacs hinted at upcoming styling and boasted a unique humidity sensor that would close the power Read more