100 Years of Chrysler: The Original Recipe and the Early Days
June 10, 2025
BY ALEX KWANTEN / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JUNE 6, 2025 Technically, Chrysler has two anniversaries. The general public got its first look at the original Chrysler car on January 5, 1924, but the company that was Chrysler Corporation, now Stellantis after a century of highs, lows, and mergers, celebrates its centennial on June 6, 2025. That’s ...
The History of Rumble Seats
February 17, 2025
BY BENJAMIN HUNTING / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 14, 2025 The early days of motoring took a much more casual approach to safety. With automobile speeds in the late 19th and early 20th centuries being relatively low, and road traffic largely consisting of even slower horse-drawn carriages, the idea of positioning passengers at the very rear ...
Time Travel to a ’60s Dragstrip on Your Lunch Break
November 27, 2024
BY KYLE SMITH/ ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 29, 2024 / HAGERTY Motorsport and racing is on a never-ending rollercoaster of evolution that all but ensures things will never be the same for long. Well, at least for any of the ones that focus more on the podium than the experience for racers and fans alike. Southeast ...
A Model T Ford Is the Michigan DOT’s Oldest Safety Vehicle
October 2, 2024
BY KYLE SMITH/ ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED July 09, 2024 / HAGERT For a good long while, the main users of the paved highways and byways of the U.S. countryside have been cars. The transition from horse and buggy to automobile has not happened for all road users though, and to help ensure the safety of some ...
7 Facts You Might Not Know about the First-Gen Mustang
July 30, 2024
BY GRACE HOUGHTON / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED July 12, 2024 / HAGERTY April 17 marks sixty years since the Ford Mustang’s public debut at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. The original pony car immediately became a pop-culture and automotive phenom, and it remains one of the most impactful cars in history. We’re celebrating with stories of ...
70 years ago, the first Corvette was born
July 14, 2023
BY Kyle Smith / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED June 30, 2023 / HAGERTY What better birthday to celebrate right before America’s than the Corvette’s? 70 years ago, the first example of America’s sports car rolled out of the factory in Flint, Michigan. Building that first car was an interesting process. The Ford Model T might have brought ...
Junk in the Trunk: Auto history’s leading rear ends
July 26, 2022
BY Diego Rosenberg / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED July 11, 2022 / HAGERTY 11 July 2022 Despite the proliferation of video chat and Zoom calls in recent history, the fundamentals of interpersonal communication involves face-to-face interaction. When it comes to automobiles, we aren’t all that different. Manufacturers tend to design them “from the front,” as people digest ...
How did they make tires in 1961? Essentially, how they make them now
June 15, 2022
BY Kyle Smith / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED June 15, 2022 / HAGERTY / Tires are arguably one of the most critical parts of your car. Put on bad ones, and you compromise not only performance but also safety. You might assume that a component so critical is built differently now than, say, it was 50 ...
How One Man Made A Mopar Ad Real
February 23, 2022
BY Brendan McAleer / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED February 21, 2022 / HAGERTY / Color is basically dead in modern motoring. We went from the Model T’s “any color… so long as it’s black” to a ’60s Pantone catalog of hues, and now the pendulum has swung back. Fifty Shades of Greymight as well be a sign ...
Built 100 years ago, this 1921 Paige is ready for a fall color tour
November 17, 2021
BY Jeff Peek / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED October 15, 2021 / HAGERTY / Yes, it’s a museum piece. Or was, anyway. Now this 1921 Paige Model 6-66 Larchmont II Sport Touring is refreshed and ready for a fall color tour—and at faster pace than you might think. Offered on Bring a Trailer, the century-old Paige is powered ...
Back to the Future DeLorean is the newest member of the National Historic Vehicle Register
May 25, 2021
BY Jeff Peek / ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED May 21, 2021 / HAGERTY / The National Historic Vehicle Register is devoted to recording and protecting America’s automotive past for future generations, and its newest member encompasses both in one fell swoop. The Hagerty Drivers Foundation (formally the Historic Vehicle Association) has announced that the 29th car on the ...
5 Iconic Vehicles From TV You Can Drive Today
May 22, 2020
For fans of pop culture, there’s just something irresistible about the vehicles star actors and popular characters drive. People obsess over the various luxury cars of James Bond, for instance, as well as the muscle cars and racing vehicles of the “Fast & Furious” series. Our article on cruising with Cruise looked at some of the most ...
