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Indian Scout fuel tank. Hemmings media archive image. Indian Motorcycles have been a part of American motorcycling history since the firm, then named the Hendee Manufacturing Company, built its first production motorcycle in 1901. Over its 113-year history, the brand has seen numerous successes and failures, along with several revivals Read more
1992 GM Ultralite concept. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives. Performance or optimum fuel efficiency. Since the dawn of the automobile, buyers have generally had to choose one or the other. In 1992, however, GM debuted a concept car called the Ultralite that promised numbers straight out of science fiction, including Read more
The Good News Garage MG, under restoration in the Hemmings shop. Photo by Mark McCourt. The British automotive industry isn’t what it used to be, but thanks to the enduring charm of its products, British sports cars continue to enjoy a well-deserved following on this side of the Atlantic. After Read more
The last time we rummaged through the photos over on Annualmobiles, we came across a driver’s ed car from Greenville, North Carolina, and now we see a photo from the used car lot at Phelps Chevrolet in Greenville, perhaps the same dealership where the service bays photo was taken. Phelps Read more
There’s something timeless about early woodie wagons, perhaps because they represent a time when craftsmen, not robots, built cars. Their upkeep requires a bit more commitment (and a bit more elbow grease) than with steel-bodied cars, giving owners more reason to spend time in the garage. This 1931 Model A Read more
Rivision, the 2014 Ridler Award winner. Photos courtesy of Autorama. The Buick Riviera isn’t generally the first car that comes to mind when one envisions a street rod, but perhaps that’s what makes J.F. Launier’s 1964 Riviera, named Rivision, so interesting. Last Sunday, this one-of-a-kind Buick, which blends parts from Read more
Photo courtesy Walter M.P. McCall. If you look back far enough, you can trace the origins of American LaFrance back to 1832. That was when a guy named John Rogers started building hand-operated fire pumps along the future Erie Canal near Albany, New York. We just learned via Fire Apparatus Read more
Darrell Wallace Jr’s 1967 Volkswagen Beetle. Still image from video below. Darrell Wallace Jr. has only been racing in NASCAR since 2012, but the rising star has already amassed an impressive resume in both the Nationwide Series (where he raced in 2012) and in the Camping World Truck Series (where Read more
We’ve seen just about every conceivable configuration for a gathering of multiple cars in our carspotting series so far – parking lot, parking garage, small-town traffic, bridge traffic, highway traffic – but as best as I can recall, we’ve yet to go carspotting inside a building. So let’s fix that Read more
As opposed to cars chock full o’ rust that don’t run and have convertible tops flapping in the breeze, this 1953 Pontiac Chieftain DeLuxe convertible for sale on Hemmings.com just about perfectly epitomizes what most people hope to see when looking for an unrestored old car. While it has a Read more