David LaChance

Automotive writer, photographer and historian

I've been both a professional writer and a hands-on automotive enthusiast all of my life. For 12 years, I worked for Hemmings Motor News, the largest publisher of old-car magazines in the United States, serving as the editor of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine. The work gave me an opportunity to research, photograph and write about a wide variety of topics. I left Hemmings in the spring of 2017 when the magazine was discontinued, and have continued to do freelance writing and photography in the field.

Portfolio
Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
01/01/2015
The Original

A long-term loan of a 1961 Jaguar E-type shows us what William Lyons had in mind

Hemmings
What's your passion?

Among the better decisions I made during my years at the University of Massachusetts was to take a class in art history with a professor named Walter Denny. Three times a week, we'd sit in a darkened auditorium, looking at slides of artworks while Professor Denny helped us understand just what it was we were looking at.

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
10/01/2012
A Few Questions For Andrea Zagato

We talk about what makes Zagato unique, why coachbuilders got out of the volume-production business, and what the prospects for an affordable exotic look like.

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
02/01/2017
Rallying 'Round

Can mechanical difficulties keep us from making it to the finish of the America's British Reliability Run? Don't bet on it

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
The Sprite Stuff

Since the very beginning, owners have tinkered with Donald Healey's creation.

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
7 days of 7

Was the Triumph TR7 as bad as all that? A week behind the wheel gives us some perspective.

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
Junior Partner

The brilliant Merak, Maserati's baby supercar, was a Seventies success story

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
The Innocenti Story

The Innocenti name has been dormant for 20 years, but the company once could lay claim to being the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Italy, behind only Fiat.