Photos by the author. One Sunday afternoon in January 2017 my family and I were returning home from a nice visit with my mother-in-law. About halfway home my wife asked me to turn down a new road int...
Press On Regardless handout photo. Image via Randy Graves. Often described as “America’s Longest, Richest, Oldest, Meanest Car Rally,” the SCCA Detroit Region’s Press On Regardless rally, conducted e...
Galaxie-bodied full custom 1955 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a rare opportunity to own a truly unique car. It was built in 1963 by combining body ...
From left: Malcolm Durham, Leonard W. Miller, Wendell Scott, and Ronald Hines at a meeting of the Black American Racers Association. Image via Silent Thunder. With the release of the Adam Carolla-dir...
I need a vintage four-wheel-drive in my life. But do I want a truck, a wagon, or a CJ? This was the Willys lineup for 1951: Truck, Station Wagon, and CJ3B. Images via The Old Car Manual Project, and ...
Look at the direction-changing driving lights on this 1930 Duesenberg Model J Berline at the Worldwide Auctioneers sale in Scottsdale, Arizona. Get up close to an old car and all kinds of details pop...
Date: circa 1969 Location: Euclid and Penn avenues, East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Source: Harry Coughanour Jr., via Historic Pittsburgh What do you see here?
It’s a good bet that plenty of auto renderings from 1945 until, oh, 1979 or so – particularly the far-out space-agey ones of the Fifties – operated on the designer’s assumption that nuclear power wou...
Survivor-level 1975 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A life-long resident of Kansas, this 1975 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe’ is a beautiful su...
No history of rock-n-roll cars would be complete without a mention of John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce, so let’s see what GQ had to say about it. To take a Phantom V – a stately wagon once possessed by both...
1995 Chrysler Atlantic. All photos courtesy FCA Media. Dodge had the Viper. Plymouth the Prowler. It only made sense that Chrysler would gain its own retro-influenced concept-turned-production flagsh...
The folks at Citroenvie, already quite chuffed that the Citroen SM would be featured at Retromobile, are understandably disappointed that PSA’s DS division has gone around removing reference to Citro...
Images courtesy Ben J. Smith. Those who knew of engineer Ben J. Smith most likely knew of him for his retractable hardtop design for the Ford Skyliner, as we covered in our article on his life earlie...
Not long after we ran Peter Wozena’s minicar rendering, we heard from Scott Wozena, Peter’s nephew, who had another couple renderings of his uncle’s to share with us. “It makes me proud to see his ta...
Date: December 1981 Location: Second Avenue and Stewart Street, Seattle, Washington Source: Leslie H. Hamilton, via University of Washington Libraries What do you see here?
Photos by Richard Lentinello (left) and courtesy Smith family (right). Though best known for designing the complicated but functional retractable hardtop system that went into the Ford Skyliner, engi...
Lowered 1957 Rambler Custom for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Sporting the factory ” Plum” metallic paint , with Black and white accents, this car surely draws a crowd. The bod...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
Unrestored 1967 Buick Skylark for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car was stored in a garage in 1989 and was removed in 2014. The condition is impeccable for a car of this a...
Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. Last month, we set out to definitively chronicle the history of automakers offering camping packages for their vehicles, either as factory specials, options...