This 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis went to a new home for $6,000. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Once upon a time, buyers attended automotive auctions to shop for (or gawk at) the rare, the expensive a...
Volkswagen operates two museums in its home town of Wolfsburg, Germany: The ZeitHaus and the Stiftung. The ZeitHaus stands out as the most visited automotive museum in the world, but the Stiftung is ...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Via de Pignattari, Bologna, Italy Source: Ran When Parked What do you see here?
The problem with owning a perfectly restored classic car is this: using it as a regular driver is bound to induce a certain amount of paranoia. After spending more on a paint job than you did on your...
Hillclimbing Toyota-powered 1972 MG Midget for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This race car was built on a 1972 MG Midget tub. The power train is a 1985 Toyota 4AGE (1600 Twin C...
With the big annual Bathurst race coming up, let’s check out a Bathurst from nearly 40 years ago with the 1977 running up Mount Panorama. ( via ) * Who doesn’t want to experience the Pegaso’s desmo V...
We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
1948 MG TC hood ornament. Photo by Jill Reger. At its peak in the late 1960s, the automobile assembly plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, England, employed an estimated 25,000 workers, building a range ...
Photo by Snapshot_Factory. In a stark contrast to its slow-growth approach to ethanol-blended fuels over the last several years, the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed to reclassify e...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Saab Automobile, the pride of Trollhättan, Sweden, is no longer the company we long new and loved, but with many former engineers and staffers st...
1980 Datsun 280ZX 10th Anniversary Edition for sale. From the seller’s description: Oringinal owner, and garage kept since purchased. Price includes original Goodyear Wingfoot tires, Suitable for sho...
Photo by Axel Drainville. Recently proposed regulations out of both the European Union and Great Britain aim to eliminate the annual or periodic roadworthiness testing that EU member states currently...
The 1987 Porsche 928 CS prototype formerly owned by Derek Bell. Photos courtesy Bonhams. The words “company car” tend to conjure up images of de-contented Fords and stripper Chevrolets, but world-cla...
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve concei...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
Built from original parts 1962 Lola T70 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This beautiful Lola T-70 Spyder was constructed by Lee Chapman Racing in New Milford, Connecticut usin...
Photo by Richard Lentinello. Ask a bunch of students to design a car and you’re guaranteed to end up with some unconventional results. Actually produce any of those unconventional results and you’re ...
Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bot...
Date: November 1965 Location: Luanda, Angola Source: The Chicane on Tumblr What do you see here?
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As we posited in “ Earthbound Spaceship,” our Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car retrospective of the Citroen DS, this front wheel-drive Frenc...
Photos courtesy Maria Sokola. It’s tempting to think that if the old cars of Cuba survived the decades until now, they’ll be around forever. They’re timeless, right? They’re a cultural institution, w...
Everybody, it seems, has a story about how cheap cars were in the old days. From gently wrecked Ferraris, now worth millions (or tens of millions) of dollars that sold for the cost of a three-year ol...
1987 Honda CRX Si. Photo by Jeff Koch. Do you own a restored or preserved Japanese car from the decade that saw the launch of MTV and the gradual rusting of the Iron Curtain? Can you still squeeze in...
From the seller’s description: A 1977-1/2 Porsche 924, purchased new and owned by a retired colonel USA for forty years, is up for sale. As stock a model as is possible, this well-cared-for Porsche i...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...