Hagerty’s Hershey Swap to Street Challenge Holds Court

Since 1955, the Antique Automobile Club of America’s Hershey Region has been host to the AACA’s Eastern Division Fall Meet, which grew rapidly and organically into the world’s largest automotive swap meet.  Your correspondent first attended in 1970 (yes, I am the...

Detroit Autorama

For a long, long time, American gearheads have held the tradition of hot rodding and customization close to their hearts. It’s prevalent at just about any show you can attend in this country, from the smallest weekly cruise-in to the most prestigious of concours...

An Ode to Harley Earl and the Concept Car

For more than a few generations of car enthusiasts, it has gone without saying that the new year will bring about beauties and beasts from all corners of the car industry. When the season for international auto shows begins, we are inundated with all makes and models,...

The Little Microcars That Could (Almost)

I confessed in an article recently that, despite my aversion to ‘cutesy cars’, I am madly in lust with the Fiat 500, both classic and moderns iterations. The Fiat 500, along with the Mini Cooper, and to an extent, the Volkswagen Beetle, are symbols of classic...

This Week in Motorhead History: Volkswagen Beetles vs the U.S. Navy

by Carl Weyburn The first Volkwagen Beetle to arrive in the United States was unloaded in New York in 1949, one of just two sold here that year.  But by 1964, just 15 years later, Beetles were a ubiquitous sight on US roads and a fleet of 60 cargo ships were bringing...

This Week in Motorhead History – The Jaguar XK-E Turns 55

“An earth-shaker from Great Britain” is how the influential writer Ken Purdy described the original Jaguar XK-E, a car stunning in looks and performance when it made its debut on March 21, 1961, and a car that remains stunning in looks and performance to this day. How...