History & Heritage

The stories, timelines, and turning points that shaped American classic cars.

1964 Chevelle 300 and Malibu — trim level comparison
History & Heritage

300, 300 Deluxe and Malibu: The Trim Ladder Story

Patrick Walsh · · 6 min
John Greenwood Spirit of America C3 Corvette with red white and blue Stars and Stripes patriotic livery and wide body fender flares racing at Le Mans at night
History & Heritage

Greenwood Corvette Spirit of America: the wide-body that raced the world

Patrick Walsh · · 9 min
Craftsmen hand-forming an aluminum body panel over a wooden buck in a 1930s coachbuilder's workshop, the vanished craft of true coachbuilt luxury
History & Heritage

The Death of True Coachbuilt Luxury

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
The 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS purpose-built race car with magnesium body on the starting grid at Sebring surrounded by mechanics in period overalls
History & Heritage

Corvette SS at the 1957 Sebring: the race car that shaped what came next

Wayne Coburn · · 8 min
1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu — Colonnade coupe on suburban road
History & Heritage

The 1973 Colonnade Redesign

Tom Ramirez · · 7 min
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 - judged meet documentation review
History & Heritage

The Chevelle SS Story: Super Sport Heritage

Tom Ramirez · · 8 min
1963 Chevrolet Chevelle press preview — GM proving ground event
History & Heritage

The 1964 Press Launch Story

Nora Beckett · · 6 min
Chevrolet Corvette C3 side profile showing shark-inspired body curves and aggressive fender flares, the Mako Shark II design DNA
History & Heritage

C3 Corvette Shark Design Language

Tom Ramirez · · 8 min
Vintage Chevrolet C10 -- half-covered barn find under a tarp
History & Heritage

The Legacy of the C10 in American Truck Culture

Nora Beckett · · 6 min
A 1956 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1963 C2 Sting Ray coupe at a GM design facility, representing the evolution Zora Arkus-Duntov drove over his 22 years shaping the car
History & Heritage

Zora Arkus-Duntov biography: the engineer who made the Corvette matter

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min
1964 Pontiac GTO
History & Heritage

The 1964 Pontiac GTO: How a Tempest LeMans Started the American Muscle Car Era

Mike Sullivan · · 5 min
A stripped-down prewar Ford roadster hot rod sitting low and nose-down on a cracked dry lakebed with desert hills behind, sepia archival tone
History & Heritage

The Dry Lakes: Where Hot Rodding Was Born

Gary Nowak · · 8 min
1957 Chevrolet Corvette C1 roadster in Venetian Red parked at a 1950s diner — top down, chrome period details
History & Heritage

C1 Corvette History Overview

Wayne Coburn · · 8 min
1969 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 Deluxe SS — sleeper at a stoplight
History & Heritage

The 1969 300 Deluxe SS: Chevelle's Sleeper Muscle Car

Mike Sullivan · · 8 min
1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III — green personal luxury coupe, formal grille
History & Heritage

Continental Mark III and IV vs Eldorado: Round Two

Sarah Whitfield · · 5 min
1953 Cadillac Eldorado convertible in two-tone paint outside a mid-century home, embodying the longer-lower-wider postwar luxury boom
History & Heritage

The Postwar Luxury Boom and the “Longer, Lower, Wider” Era

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
1968 Chevrolet Corvette C3 Mako Shark era design in side profile on an American highway at sunset, showing the low wide body with tunneled rear quarter windows and pronounced fender bulges
History & Heritage

The C3 Corvette: Mako Shark Era (1968-1982)

Tom Ramirez · · 12 min
1908 Cadillac reassembled from scrambled parts at Brooklands — Standard of the World test
History & Heritage

Cadillac vs Lincoln: The Origins of the Rivalry

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min