Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
A battery topper, which does just what the name implies, looks cleaner and more correct than the aftermarket battery under it. Photos by the author. Even though we have recently enjoyed record high t...
See? I’m perfectly capable of posting non-wintry street scenes during winter. Just take a look at these two additional photos from the Richfield Historical Society from the Sixties – above, dated 196...
For many of us, the fun part of owning an old car is working on it ourselves – troubleshooting mechanical problems and then getting our hands dirty repairing or maintaining the car. But sometimes it’...
Robert Carini. Photo courtesy Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. Robert Carini may not have achieved the level of fame realized by his son Wayne, star of Velocity television’s Chasing Classic Cars,...
I promise, today’s carspotting photo won’t kick off another week of snowy street scenes, but I can’t say that I won’t latch on to windows of wintry weather when I see them. So when perusing what we h...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
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...
At first blush, it may look as though every view of Barre in yesterday’s and today’s carspotting posts, which all came from the Vermont Landscape Change photo archive, depicts a different town, but t...
What’s kept this six cylinder-powered 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com from already succumbing to somebody’s desire to plant a V-8 under the hood? The largely ...
1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Photo by author. Speaking of the 273-cu.in. Mopar small-block V-8 that I recently wrote about, here’s a noteworthy car that has one. More significantly, this 1965 Plymouth Ba...
Ready for a little bit of carspotting overload? We stumbled on a set of photos from downtown Barre, all dated June 1974, all of the downtown park square area, all featuring plenty of traffic, in the ...
For 1963, the Ford Falcon Futura replaced the Falcon Deluxe atop the model’s range, and a new two-door hardtop model was introduced. While a six-cylinder was still the standard offering on Falcon Fut...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...
While we’ve included a number of photos of this 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Custom two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com for reference, we really only need one to convey the car’s story and its appe...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s Arsenal of Democracy speech, FCA this week put together a video highlighting Chrysler’s contribution to the war effort, which included buil...
Roy Lunn, the man behind Ford’s GT40 and, ultimately, its racing successes, recently was feted at an event put together in Florida that featured plenty GT40s, GTs, and Cobras. Car Guy Chronicles has ...
Since our recent posts on Route 66 and the alternate cross-country routes y’all suggested, we’re paying more attention to the old route marker signs, such as the three for U.S. 91, U.S. 93, and U.S. ...
Photos by the author. On my way to Hilton Head last month to attend the concours there I made a side trip up to Charleston to photograph this fabulous Plymouth. It’s a 1950 Suburban, a once fairly po...
Apparently the Avenue Bar, as seen in this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee photo that The Old Motor recently posted, still exists, but as the hotel bar for a national chain currently on the same co...
One of American Motors’ tributes to the legendary and durable straight-six that went on to power just about every AMC-built vehicle until the company’s end, this 1964 Rambler Classic Typhoon has surv...
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely ...
Could’ve sworn we previously ran these two images of San Francisco that Those Old Cars recently posted, but after a review of our voluminous (750-plus) carspotting archives, it appears not, so let’s ...
Does any vehicle more exemplify the Choo-Choo Customs excess of the Eighties than this 1984 Chevrolet El Camino IROC-S for sale on Hemmings.com? It’s got the Camaro nose, of course, and along with th...