Photos by author. After Tim Havens brought his 1957 S-120 International Civil Defense Rescue Vehicle to our August 18 Cruise-In and drove off with Favorite Truck honors we had to know more. So we tra...
1951 Dodge Power Wagon wrecker for sale. From the seller’s description: This truck was bought new by Dearth Chrysler Dodge in 1951 and was their dealership wrecker until they retired it, had it resto...
Restored 1956 International Metro delivery van. From the seller’s description: Original California van that was 99 percent rust free at start of restoration in 2012 and completed in 2016. Rare automa...
While the Toyota 2JZ isn’t quite the ubiquitous engine swap as the SBC or the LS, the straight-six still manages to make its way in between the frame rails of a good diversity of cars, trucks, and ot...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
1932 Nash Eight Series 990 ambulance by Miller. From the seller’s description: This Nash epitomized classic-era elegance with its stained glass quarter windows and hickory spoke artillery wheels. Ori...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle ...
SPAAMFA’s 2012 National Muster. Photo courtesy of Dan Jasina. What do fire apparatus do? They spray water by the ton onto raging flames, or extend ladders so that panicked victims can be plucked from...
From the seller’s description: 1937 GMC Open Touring Bus , 6 cylinder, Oldsmobile engine. Seats 15- 20 passengers. Been in storage under cover since 2005. At that time, it had new tires, brake shoes,...
An M4 Sherman tank, displayed on the grounds of the Normandy Tank Museum. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In 2013, military vehicle collector Patrick Nerrant opened the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, Franc...
The weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the crowd. They started trickling in to the Blue Hill Fairgrounds early on a soggy Saturday morning – a handful of Corvettes, a Ford Model A, a Model T, a 197...
1940 Ford Siebert ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: When the Flathead V8 was introduced in 1932, the coachbuilder that would be best remembered for its contributions ...
As if we couldn’t tell from previous scratchbuilt trucks built by the brothers Read, Cliff and Larry, they have a fairly masterful knowledge of trucking history, down to the small but significant det...
In the early 1970s, Chrysler had a significant share of the law enforcement market, thanks to offerings like the Plymouth Fury, the Dodge Polara, the Dodge Cornet and the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite...
1931 Chevrolet Panel Truck delivers bootlegging baking supplies to a St. Louis, Missouri bakery. Image from the writer’s collection. With prohibition, breweries like Anheuser-Busch had to figure out ...
The phenomenon of converting used luxury cars into wreckers more or less ended with the Depression, but as we can see from this 1950 Buick Roadmaster -based wrecker for sale on Hemmings.com, the idea...
Aimed at commercial customers, DKW’s Schnellaster series came in a variety of formats, ranging from compact pickups though panel vans. Window vans, like this 1957 DKW Schnellaster Kastenwagen 3=6, fo...
Other vehicles designed and built by Ferdinand Porsche going back to the turn of the century have adopted the Porsche name in the years since, but the first to actually wear the Porsche name, accordi...
Photos courtesy of Historics at Brooklands. A two-seat convertible sports car hardly seems like a sensible choice for police work, but from the 1930s into the 1960s, British automaker MG provided a v...
During the early days of the Cold War, in an effort to prepare cities for a potential nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, the federal government ordered up 1,300 Civil Defense Rescue Service truc...
Photos courtesy Gary Keto and Geoff Hacker. A few months back, we got a call from Gary Keto, who had been going through his family’s things and found a bunch of photos of some old streamlined vehicle...
The good: This 1963 Corvair 95 panel van for sale on Hemmings.com has a good mechanical foundation and everything appears present and accounted for. The not so good: It’s rough, with plenty of rust t...
Photos courtesy Viking-Cives. If you are driving down a two or three-lane highway in New York State during this snow season and you see a trailer starting to jack-knife behind a plow truck, don’t wor...
Pride of Prescott – 1931 Seagrave Ladder Truck. Photo by Jeff Koch Professional vehicles, particularly fire apparatus, lead a charmed life. Or so we think. We typically see them being constantly wash...
Ford offered Marmon-Herrington four-wheel drive conversions on select vehicles from the 1930s into the early 1960s. There’s a reason the company isn’t a household name, however: Not only was four-whe...