Santa Pod Raceway over in England is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and released a snazzy little promo video, but we thought it’d be more appropriate to take a look at this home video fro...
Most of the yearbook carspotting photos posted to Annualmobiles come from dealerships, but here we see The Pit Stop, a speed shop in Pasadena, Texas, with all sorts of goodies to offer. * What is a t...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In part one, I looked at the reasons I decided to hunt down a rather mundane car from the Malaise Era, a ’74 Buick Apollo coupe that had features my first car, also a ’...
Ronan Glon’s Ran When Parked has plenty more European carspotting gold in addition to yesterday’s two scenes from southeastern France, including these three from the touristy coastal Dutch town Schev...
Text by Jeff Koch; photography by Jeff Koch and Thomas A. DeMauro. At BMW, evolution is a way of life. Three decades separate the first 2002s and the last of the still-ubiquitous E30-generation 3-ser...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Brief glimpse of racing at El Mirage in 1946 that Mac’s Motor City Garage posted this week, but it includes some rather noteworthy cars in the hot rodding pantheon. See how many you can name. * For t...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Hemmings writers really should be more careful with the $5,000 Challenge. In my case, that regular feature of the blog led me to buy a car I’d never imagined owning aga...
We may have been doing this carspotting thing for too long if, when we come across a photo like the one above depicting the Joest-Porsche 908/03 heading back to the paddock during qualifying for the ...
Looking sharp thanks to a repaint and replicated graphics, this 1975 Pontiac Ventura SJ Sprint hatchback coupe for sale on Hemmings.com still sports its original white split-bench interior as well as...
The burden of owning an original car — for some people, at least — is that they can’t just willy-nilly add or restore items, and repairs have to be extremely deliberate. But stepping back a bit from ...
Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
GM really rolled out the red carpet – literally! – in November 1954 in Flint, when it came time to build its 50 millionth car. Fortunately, the company also made sure plenty of film cameras were roll...
At first blush, it may look as though every view of Barre in yesterday’s and today’s carspotting posts, which all came from the Vermont Landscape Change photo archive, depicts a different town, but t...
What’s kept this six cylinder-powered 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com from already succumbing to somebody’s desire to plant a V-8 under the hood? The largely ...
Ready for a little bit of carspotting overload? We stumbled on a set of photos from downtown Barre, all dated June 1974, all of the downtown park square area, all featuring plenty of traffic, in the ...
After decades of being passed over by collectors, Datsun 240Zs appear to be getting some of the respect they deserve. While current buyers favor Day One cars, the truth of the matter is this: by the ...
While we’ve included a number of photos of this 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Custom two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com for reference, we really only need one to convey the car’s story and its appe...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s Arsenal of Democracy speech, FCA this week put together a video highlighting Chrysler’s contribution to the war effort, which included buil...
While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Ja...
Photos Courtesy: Jeff Koch. It started innocently enough–with a boy and his bicycle. “In 1970, my bike was a Raleigh Chopper. It was orange and black–the same color as this Oldsmobile. I’ve kept it a...
Continuing our dip into the Historic American Engineering Records overview of the Bronx’s Third Avenue El, we’ve got a look at either side of the 180th Street station, with cars parked on both sides ...
One fine candidate for driveable dream status is this 1973 Imperial LeBaron four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. It’s got a few cosmetic issues, a little rust, and a handful of power accessori...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-bu...
1972 AMC Javelin AMX print ad, courtesy Production Cars. In 1971, Mark Donahue delivered American Motors’s first Trans-Am championship behind the wheel of a Javelin AMX. The manufacturer wasted no ti...