Florida’s Amelia Island has long been home to the exquisite Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, the first prominent American concours of the year. Set on the ocean at the lavish Ritz-Carlton hotel, founder and chairman Bill Warner‘s four-day affair has become one of the most anticipated and enjoyable events in the old-car hobby. This year’s 16th […]

How many of us would love to stumble across a field of collectible cars like this? Each of them in ready-to-drive condition, no less? The picture came from a friend of mine who snapped it upon arrival at the AACA Hershey meet in 1969. At that time, the majority of the car show and swap […]

We got some immediate and grateful response from readers to the recent story in Hemmings Muscle Machines, illustrated with the photography of Mike Sopko, on bygone drag racing at U.S. 30 Dragway outside Gary, Indiana. (HMM #90, March 2011). Hands down, the craziest car in that story was No Big Thing, a tiny Vespa sedan […]