Jim Benjaminson’s grandfather, Andrew Widme, purchased his first car in July of 1912 – a used 1910 Mitchell built in Racine, Wisconsin. Grandpa Widme paid $700 for the car (which sold new for around ...
I took this photo of my black ’57 at the Classic Thunderbird Club International regional meet at Seven Springs around 1970 or so when we drove the Bird from New Rochelle to western Pennsylvania. Bill...
As an old computer returns to its original owner, we wonder: Are old-car fans so different from vintage appliance fetishists? Photo by Rama. Are you a tech fetishist? I am not. Computers have, tradit...
Photos by author. My start in this business happened to coincide with the release of the Fourth-Gen Firebirds and Camaros. During those early days, one of my coworkers gave me this 1993 Camaro Z28 ho...
Still image from video below. If you were a kid in the 1970s, watching the following vintage SSP Racers commercials will instantly have you revisiting your childhood, but be warned, the jingle from t...
Here’s a small sample from my modest Stewart Warner Green Line gauge collection. Photos by author. While there’s still plenty to do in the garage during winter, the really cold weekends are spent in ...
1973 Hurst/Olds press photo. Art courtesy of Owen Griesemer and GM. If you think you’ve amassed every piece of literature that exists for your car, you may be surprised to learn that there’s probably...
Sure, I want all of them…but would that be sensible? Photo by author. When I was a teenager, I thought there was no such thing as owning too many vintage cars. They looked great, were easy to work on...
Summer returned to the UK for just a couple of hours this afternoon, not that I noticed as I had made my descent once more into the other-worldly void that is The Carchive. There I bravely battled fi...