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Daniel Decker (L) and Phil Wheeler, the National Corvette Museum’s latest hires. Photo courtesy National Corvette Museum. In the past two years, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has received donations of 25 cars, emphasizing the need for a dedicated and full-time maintenance and preservation department. After years Read more
Photos by Hemmings staff, including Judi Dell’Anno, J. Daniel Beaudry, Ed Heys and Kurt Ernst. Editor’s note: As print (and digital) editors with a passion for older vehicles, we tend to look at new cars with a certain ennui. We’ve seen a million waterfall grilles, Hofmeister kinks, faux intakes and Read more
Introduced in prototype form at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, the Acura NSX sent a clear message to the automotive world that Honda was serious about building a world-class sports car. In production form, its mid-mounted 3.0-liter, 270-horsepower V-6 used titanium connecting rods and forged pistons, permitting an 8,000 RPM Read more
* A few months back we saw the Fiat S76 Beast of Turin erupt back to life, and this week we got to see it in action for the first time in more than a century, in a Stefan Marjoram short film following the Beast up the hill at Goodwood. Read more
Chevrolet reintroduced the Camaro 1LE package in 2013 to transform the Camaro SS into a track-day special, rivaling the 2012-2013 Mustang Boss 302. Though the road-race inspired production Camaro has received positive reviews, it seems like the “1LE” reference has fallen as flat as the matte black paint on its Read more
* Most motorcycle enthusiasts have surely seen one or two of Richard and Phyllis Milne’s pictures of Floyd Emde alllllmost making it to the top of a hillclimb on his Indian in 1948. The whole sequence of photos, though, which The Old Motor published this week, shows how that top Read more
Lincoln’s Continental concept on display at the 2015 New York International Auto Show. Photos by author. Though we enjoy a fair amount of editorial latitude with the Hemmings Daily, one unwritten rule of thumb is this: thou shalt not cover new cars very often. I’ll admit to being on the Read more
Interesting series of images we came across over on the MIT Libraries Flickr page, all taken by one Nishan Bichajian and showing an unnamed intersection from above, with a steady stream of cars and trucks barreling through without any sort of traffic control device apparent in the photos. We picked Read more
This 1976 Chevrolet Caprice Estate for sale on Hemmings.com would have merited a Find of the Day writeup all on its own, given the forests of Dinoc trees felled for all that woodgrain (and, of course, the original interior and mostly original paint). Towing a color-coordinated and era-appropriate boat, though, Read more
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s. The last time the New York Mets bullpen cart appeared in the limelight, the team had just clinched the division title in 1986 and a Shea Stadium erupted in celebrations. Stadium vendor and fan Eric Bennett slipped into the bullpen, nabbed the cart, and began to drive Read more