The earliest post-World War II designs from the Big Three were futuristic looking from a 1940s perspective, but quickly came to look outdated as 1950s industrial design left Streamline Moderne behind for the jet age. Similarly, reliable prewar mechan

THERE’S AN OLD saying in the automobile business: You never want to be too far behind styling trends, or too far ahead. Finding that sweet spot between styling that’s too conservative and too advanced is critical, and the Mitchell automobile is a goo

Today’s motorsports enthusiasts point to Bonneville as a swath of salt bed that’s home to sensational land speed records man once thought impossible. When Pontiac unveiled its “action styled” Bonneville in 1957, this new model featured a sleek silhou

BOB DRAKE REPRODUCTIONS 800-221-3673 Fix unwanted holes or add strength to mounting hole locations with these new weld-in patch kits. Each 200-piece kit features 18-gauge steel repair disc patches of eight different sizes, ranging from 5/16-inch to 1

Imagine discovering a one-of-a-kind PPG Indy Car World Series Pace Car while shopping dealers of pre-owned vehicles for a daily driver. In early 2020, that’s exactly what Mike Blaze did. Then he bought it! The production engineer from southwestern Pe

DANG I did it again! I inadvertently folded myself into the front passenger seat of my restored 1966 Morris Minor convertible. It happened right in the middle of a town on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand where we have a house. Neighbors were

The credit for the technique doesn’t belong to the automotive firmament but instead, to the aviation pioneer Alexander P. de Seversky, who in 1923 figured out a way to refuel one U.S. Army Air Service biplane from another one buzzing alongside, fille

I TURNED 18 in late 1977. Ordinarily it would have been just another birthday, especially considering I had my driver’s license less than a year, but it was significant in that I was hired as a valet parking attendant at The Manor, a well-known fine

Gregg D. Merksamer, publicity and media relations chair of the Professional Car Society, dropped us a line after reading about the Chrysler mobile barrier used at Yonkers Raceway in the December issue of HCC. Being just 15 miles from the world’s olde

RETREAUX” IS A TERM that ought to get more traction. It’s a blend of “faux” meaning fake and “retro” meaning in the style of an earlier time. The actual meaning is closer “fake vintage,” though. There are certain things that weren’t available in earl

Ray Pile was a part of the immediate post-World War II generation of hot rodders. During the war, he was a waist gunner in Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacking Nazi-occupied Europe and afterward he returned to his home in Southgate, Californ

Maybe you rummaged around in a drawer and found your grandfather’s ancient cereal-premium decoder ring. Or maybe it was a cardboard box in your attic, where you rediscovered your very first G.I. Joe, the 12-inch variety. The simple things that serve

Unless you were driving on California’s highways in the late Fifties to early Sixties, odds are you’ve never laid eyes on a car like this before. That’s because, according to its owner Roger Clements, this is the only restored example of a genuine 19

Using the word “rare” to describe some vehicles built in the postwar era, particularly after the mid-Fifties, usually conjures the adage, “It’s rare because nobody wanted it when it was new.” While it may apply to select vehicles of then-questionable

SPONSORED BY GULLWING MOTOR CARS When barn-find aficionado supreme John Fardone was summoned by his good friend Rich Riley of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to help dig out a prized Plymouth muscle car stashed away over four decades previous, he was amaze

Whether it’s called Hershey, the Hershey Meet, or by its formal title of AACA Eastern Fall Meet, the annual all-in-one vintage vehicle festival has been a staple of the hobby for generations. Few events boast anything like Hershey’s more than a dozen

If you were to guess which market segment dominates today’s new vehicle sales, we’re betting most of you would answer sport utility vehicles. The question, however, is what percentage of sales have SUV captured? North of 30 percent? Perhaps 40 percen