The Fallen Trooper Memorial Car Show had something for just about everyone. Photos by author. Being both a retired USMC Sergeant Major and a retired Oregon State Patrolman, Rod Beach of Brooks, Orego...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
Shelby in ’66. Painting by Wallace A. Wyss. There have been Hollywood films about automakers, say Preston Tucker. And there have been Hollywood films about race-car builders. It is now confirmed that...
Hemmings file photo. Remaining photos by author. Today is an auspicious day for your intrepid West Coast editor: August 16, 2018, marks the 25th anniversary of your author’s entry into the weird busi...
Photos by Remi Dargegen. The world over, there’s probably only one Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing sporting a three-inch chopped roofline, bubbles in the top to clear the driver’s and passenger’s heads...
All images courtesy of the Shelby American Collection Located in Boulder, Colorado, perhaps America’s greatest college town, the Shelby American Collection will be holding its annual car show and par...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
1956 Cadillac View Master, built by Hess & Eisenhardt. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. There was no shortage of luxury sedan, coupe, and convertible models from Cadillac in 1956, but...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Ford’s 10-millionth Mustang, posed with Ford’s first production model. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company. On August 8, Ford celebrated the construction of its 10-millionth Mustang (including product...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
From the seller’s description: 1962 Buick Skylark – Original 2-door coupe with just over 30,000 actual miles. All-aluminum 215 cid V-8 with 4-bbl carburetor, automatic dual-path turbine trans, dual s...
A 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, one of the cars on the National Corvette Museum’s wish list. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. The National Corvette Museum (NCM), located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, strives to te...
1911 Buick Model 21 Touring (top); 1915 Dodge Touring (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but r...
From the seller’s description: 2003 Mercury Marauder One owner. 43,000 Miles. One of less than 7000 produced in black in 2003. Beautiful car, excellent condition, very well maintained by owner/mechan...
Brandon Anderson. Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Brandon Anderson learned how to drive stick in a 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle, on his family’s property in northern Indiana,...
Porsche 911 Safari! ’59 Dodge Coronet! Subaru SVX! ’75 Chevy Caprice! W123 Mercedes wagon! Photography by the author. The Matchbox “Gathering of Friends,” held each July in Albuquerque, has come and ...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA. Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” th...
Photos courtesy John Peterson, National Automobile Museum. John W. Mackay, unlike many of his ultra-rich contemporaries, wasn’t enamored with the automobile. Then again, not a lot of people were in t...
From the seller’s description: 1994 Mazda Miata M Edition with only 12k original miles! Excellent in and out. Only 3,000 produced. Limited slip diff. 1994 was the first year for the bigger 1.8 engine...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II – while a best-selle...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Chrysler 300 2 door hardtop , original survivor with one repaint in the original color years ago, Silver Turquoise Poly # 12648. Absolutely NO Rust. Chrome on fron...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. And he called it… the Cougar. Okay, so Gale Halderman might have swung and missed on the name of Ford’s sporty compact four-seater, but the design he sketched for what wou...