From the seller’s description: 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Salon Two Door Coupe , This is one of the nicest Olds. you could find. I am the 2 nd owner excluding a dealer. As you will see in the pi...
There’s an early 1980s’ CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earli...
Unrestored 1930 American Austin coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Rare 1930 American Austin Bantam 5 window coupe. No mileage since total restoration. Body and fenders in...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
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...
Big-block-swapped 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Originally a Georgia car that started life as a six cylinder, three speed, to a meticulous, full fra...
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...
Date: 1980 Location: East Illinois Street, Chicago, Illinois Source: Charles William Brubaker photo, via University of Illinois at Chicago Digital Collections What do you see here?
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...
Pair of Subaru Brats and collection of related parts for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A fellow patron had been collecting and repairing Subaru Brats with his uncle and claims ...
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...
From the seller’s description: 1988 Lincoln MK Vll Bill Blass Series. Yes ,only 7989 original miles. Original owner purchased this vehicle new.Clear safety in 2017,never winter driven,non smoker , no...
Hemmings archive photo. Senior designer Frank Hershey had been working on the rear fender design idea that had first come to him before the war, when Harley Earl led the field trip to Selfridge air b...
From the seller’s description: 1946 Plymouth Deluxe Business Coupe , Chevron Blue over gray interior, 80k miles. A Nebraska car nearly all of its life, with a brief period in South Dakota during the ...
Robert Moses had all sorts of grand plans for Manhattan’s road network, none grander than the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). However, as Curbed pointed out in this 2016 article, the efforts of a...
Photo by Thomas Geersing. You can’t save them all, of course. Cars, though made of durable materials like steel and glass, are ultimately impermanent things and all of them — even the ones we cherish...
Date: circa early 1980s Location: North Avenue NW, Atlanta, Georgia Source: Georgia State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Twin-turbo 1991 Autech Zagato Stelvio for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car was built by Zagato in Milan Italy for Autech a subsidiary of Nissan. There where supposed to b...
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...