While on the hunt for photos of his first Buick Apollo, Joe Essid came across a photo he thought would be of interest to our carspotters. Captioned only with “MGM Grand Hotel, Nevada, Oct. 1980” by h...
A great candidate for a rolling restoration or a driveable dream, this 1972 AMC Javelin SST for sale on Hemmings.com falls somewhere on the spectrum in between gnarly AMX and basic six-cylinder aroun...
Still from House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology video. In a hearing on the recently introduced bill crafted to exempt competition vehicles from the Clean Air Act, a government researcher...
1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche and Volkswagen collection made headlines when 16 (of 17) cars offered at auction in Amelia Island sol...
1958 Toyota Toyopet Crown, in left-hand drive. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. When the first Toyota Toyopet Crowns landed on the docks in Los Angeles in the late summer of 1957, no one on h...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
While poking around for more on the Lakewood Center photo that appeared in a recent LA-centric carspotting post, we came across this one and had to believe we’d already used it; the colors and the pa...
There’s a little bit of work left to be done on this 1970 Datsun 510 for sale on Hemmings.com, but that’s nothing compared to the restoration work the seller’s already completed, from floor and rocke...
Photo courtesy Oldsmobile, via Steve Moskowitz. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile across the country when it was new took skill, mechanical aptitude, and courage. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile acro...
Pandora, my 2000 BMW R1100R. Photo by author. Spring came early to Vermont this year, and with 60-degree temps in the forecast, I opted to wake Pandora, the name I’ve taken to calling my oft-troubles...
The Hannover plant in 1959. Photos courtesy Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. On March 5, 1955, Volkswagen broke ground on a new factory in Hannover-Stoecken, Germany, and just over one year later, on ...
Like many photos taken for EPA’s Documerica series, this one of South Charleston’s downtown area – specifically Seventh Street, looking east, which we came across on Jim and Chester’s Garage – uses a...
A while back, we ran a piece on the 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo sale brochure, and it generated a surprising amount of discussion. Much of it was centered on the highest-performance variant, the Monte...
1953 Muntz Jet roadster. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Earl “Madman” Muntz was renowned as a used-car and cheap-television pitchman, but even his sales...
I don’t know how many of you believe in ghosts, or care, but sometimes there is a story worth telling. This ’73 AMX Pierre Cardin is known as “the murder AMX” as owner was killed in a garage, body du...
The location for all four of today’s carspotting photos: Hartford’s Main Street, conveniently given away by the presence of the Crown Theater, which we’ve seen before in the photos supplied to us by ...
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...
Ask fair-weather enthusiasts to name the first hybrid automobile, and the answer is likely to be the Toyota Prius, which debuted in the Japanese market in 1997, or the Honda Insight, which hit the ma...
An aerial view of the event. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd. Tennesee’s Chattanooga Cruise-In started out several years back as an informal open house at Coker Tire headquarters and Honest Charley Speed Sh...
Never fear, Northeasterners and Rust Belters: Despite the snowy backdrop for the photos of this 1968 Ford Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com, it hasn’t been driven in the snow in at least 34 yea...
As Mac’s Motor City Garage wrote this week, 1958’s “An Evening With Fred Astaire” was the first television program recorded on color videotape, a feat made possible in part by sponsorship by Chrysler...
Buick’s limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it’s certainly not a bad-...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
By William Hall. Photos by the author and Tom Heinrich. Lyn St. James climbs into the cramped cockpit of the 1964 Alfa Romeo TZ 1 and takes a few moments to familiarize herself with the instruments a...
Could’ve sworn we’ve already run this photo of Las Vegas’s Fremont Street, submitted to us by Facebook reader Nikos Kostopoulus, but it’s not coming up in the searches, so let’s use it to cap off thi...