Lincoln’s Continental disappeared from the market following the 1948 model year, and wouldn’t make another appearance until 1956, when Continental reemerged as a stand-alone marque. For those seeking...
The collection of Hartford photos that Joe Sokola provided us included a few from New York City, and given the lack of additional context, we have to assume that our regular Hartford photographer too...
Image via Google Maps. Old Studebaker dealership buildings tend not to attract the attention of big-city mayors or generate headline news these days. One in Phoenix, however, has proved the exception...
Going back through some old bookmarks, I see we never used these three photos from the Duke University Libraries for our carspotting series. At least two of them we can positively identify the locati...
Of all the Hartford photos in the collection Joe Sokola supplied us, we only found these three from the Forties. Above, the theater marquee shows two films released in July and September of 1945, and...
Crazy, right? Mercury’s Wrist-Twist steering couldn’t have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac’s Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steeri...
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...
Yes, we know, plenty of folks are itching to turn this 1940 Willys coupe for sale on Hemmings.com into a gasser, just add fiberglass body and go. But the cowl-forward condition it’s in now – similar ...
Who knows how many backyard tinkerers built MI Specials from the plans distributed by Mechanix Illustrated and old used Fords, but it’s always neat to see another one turn up, mostly for the little v...
Anybody who’s ever taken a side on the did-ZIS-really-copy-Packard debate and hasn’t ever actually traveled to Russia to examine an old ZIS in person, we present this 1947 ZIS 110 limousine for sale ...
Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he wa...
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. I...
Photo by John Butte. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Darlene and her friends had their first opportunity to see and experience one of the newest technologies: television. Some of the six girls (Regina Fenn...
Think your rush hour traffic is bad? Check out this rush hour traffic from Los Angeles from the Forties. USC’s Digital Library, where we came across the photo, notes that it was taken at 5:00 p.m. on...
Yet another film that could be summed up with “don’t drive like a jerk.” But this one introduces the “screw jay,” which proves that jaywalkers can be jerks, too. All photos are frame grabs from video...
Thanks to Hollywood, pretty much everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there’s some iconic landmark in view. But even without all those landmarks, the wide avenues full of towering palms and the blue s...
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...
Photos by the author. Beyond being cute, the Crosley station wagon was a noteworthy vehicle that was literally decades ahead of its time. While its diminutive size against all the large cars that rul...
All photos courtesy FCA. Pretty much as we predicted last year, FCA waited until this year to celebrate Jeep’s 75th anniversary, only going so far back as the Willys Quad and MA prototypes of 1941 in...
Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chron...
Earliest proposal by ex-GM designer George Lawson was called the Tin Goose, had pivoting, skirted front fenders. Tin Goose sketches appeared in early ads (below), but later ads showed Alex Tremulis’s...
From the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page comes this probably not-so-silent night-ish view of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from the late 1940s. Even if we didn’t have the cars to confirm that er...
From the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page comes this probably not-so-silent night-ish view of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from the late 1940s 1952. Even if we didn’t have the cars to confirm th...