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1937 Dodge Westchester owned by Chris Lawrence of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Photo courtesy Chris Lawrence. November’s issue of Hemmings Classic Car (#122) celebrates the 100th anniversary of one of America’s greatest auto manufacturers. For this commemorative issue, we asked for your Dodge stories, and you delivered (and then some). We Read more
David Roberts in his 1969 Chevrolet Camaro vintage race car. Photo courtesy Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival. It’s hardly surprising that the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d’Elegance has enjoyed brisk growth. A big part of the reason is that the two-weekend event incorporates a running exhibition of Read more
Mechanically speaking, Stearns-Knight automobiles were one of the best engineered cars of the pre-war era, and beyond. While their styling wasn’t much different than all the other automobiles that were being produced during that period, the level of their construction and fit and finish were well above the average automobile Read more
Not as flashy as the country club-rolling Country Squire, but not as basic as the handyman special Ranch Wagon, the Country Sedan represented the Customline range in Ford’s station wagon lineup to appeal to middle-class suburban households, and outsold its brethren combined. This particular 272-powered 1955 Ford Country Sedan for Read more
Peter Boyle’s Best of Show-winning 1928 Isotta Fraschini 8A SS. Photos courtesy Lobban Photography, Inc. By the late 1920s, Italy’s Isotta Fraschini had earned a reputation for both performance and luxury among discerning (and well-heeled) American buyers. In 1928, chassis 1353, an Isotta Fraschini 8A built in highest-performance Super Spinto Read more
A fantastic modern 2014 custom, Cody Walls’s 1959 Chevrolet Brookwood wagon will be at the show. Photograph by John Jackson. If you need any more reason to be in Wildwood, New Jersey, on the first weekend of October, look no further than the inaugural Customs by the Sea car show. Run Read more
The Internet Archive Book Images collection has uploaded over 2.6 million photographs, illustrations, and visual images to their Flickr. According to the BBC, these previously unavailable images were scanned from over 600 million book pages printed from 1500 to 1922 (though some appear to be from as late as the Read more
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Among the hundreds of street rods, muscle cars, and other collector cars that crossed the Mecum auction block in Dallas this past weekend, four in particular stood out not for their selling prices but for their odometers. Collectively, the four, all mid-1980s front-wheel-drive Dodges, sold for Read more
Closer into the heart of Canberra than our previous two looks at the city’s automotive culture thanks to the National Archives of Australia on Flickr, today’s carspotting scene shows some traffic and plenty of parking along Alinga Street, looking west from just east of Mort Street. Of course, it’s not Read more
Blame it on James Bond, or blame it on a timeless design by Giorgetto Giugiaro, but Lotus Esprits of any generation never fail to catch our attention. This 1995 Lotus Esprit S4s, for sale on Hemmings.com, represents the last of the four-cylinder turbo models, as the British luxury sports car Read more