Reader Gary Rynsburger sent us a link to the 1966 Chevrolet introduction video this week specifically for the camper truck chase scene toward the end, but we figured the entire thing would be worth w...
One of the vehicles contesting next month’s Peking-to-Paris race will be a 1968 AMX looking sufficiently beefy and campaigned by rally veterans Jim Valentine and Jonathan Lodge. What’s more, they’ll ...
To wrap up this week of European carspotting, let’s head over to The Netherlands with two photo postcards we came across on Flickr. Above, a look at Grote Markt – now car-less – and Sint Geertruidus ...
Prices for driver-quality Volkswagen Beetles have been on an upward swing in recent years, as a once seemingly endless supply has dwindled dramatically. Worse, many surviving examples have been custo...
Not sure exactly where Porshce’s ad agency at the time shot this photo for an ad for the 911, so if anybody recognizes the bridge the Neun-Elf is on, let us know. In the meantime, there’s plenty of E...
To some, the collector car hobby is about driving a classic car, a fairly broad term that encompasses a wide variety of vehicles and manufacturers. To others, the hobby is about preserving or restori...
After yesterday’s Paris carspotting exercise, we decided to stay in Europe and head over to Madrid, where this fairly well-circulated photo of Calle Gran Via was taken in 1956, showing quite the ecle...
Photography by the author. No wonder Carroll Shelby was smitten by the Ace when he first saw one. This British-built automobile has that perfect sports car look, with a simple, unspoiled shape that i...
Though he found it at a site dedicated to photos of cars in the Sixties, Ronan at Ran When Parked believes this photo of Paris’s Place de la Concorde dates to the late Fifties, and we’re not inclined...
Volvo’s two-door sport wagon, the 1800ES, was the final variation of its 1800 model line. Launched in 1972 and built for just two model years, the 1800ES, designed by Jan Wilsgaard, blends the stunni...
Photo courtesy Nader.org. He may never have owned or driven a car, but Ralph Nader has had an undisputed influence on the development of the automobile over the last 50 years, and it’s for that influ...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, in the past five years or so Sunbeam Tiger prices have climbed into the stratosphere, and Shelby Cobra prices have been there for a long, long time. This 19...
Photographer Tom Blachford’s Midnight Modern series expertly pairs mid-century modern architecture found throughout Palm Springs, California, with automobiles representative of the mid-century era, a...
Photo by Todd Ehlers. Preliminary figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week call for adding 300 million more gallons of ethanol to the nation’s fuel supply next year, ...
1976 Lamborghini Urraco P300. Photos by Wes Duenkel, courtesy Lane Motor Museum, unless otherwise noted. Italy has long had a love affair with motoring (on four wheels or two), as demonstrated by bra...
Czech manufacturer Tatra has always specialized in building innovative, if not eccentric, vehicles. Though never officially offered for sale on these shores, the Tatra T613 is a perfect case in point...
Photos by the author. Italy’s carrozzerias were renowned for crafting beautifully shaped sports car bodies out of hand-formed aluminum, but in England, where the burgeoning sports car and racing spec...
1953 Aston Martin DB3S/5. Photos courtesy Bonhams unless otherwise specified. It was built for Aston Martin owner David Brown (the DB in Aston Martin’s nomenclature), but soon after commandeered by t...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News There was a period -say, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s- that Honda’s mainstream cars always seemed to be a bit better tha...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...
Most folks probably know David Greenless as the man behind The Old Motor, but he’s also an accomplished restorer and caretaker of pre-World War I thoroughbreds, including the 1915 Duesenberg race car...
Part of the capacity crowd from last night’s cruise-in. Photos by Kurt Ernst, David Conwill and Terry McGean. To some, it’s the budding of trees and the blooming of flowers (often accompanied by the ...
Photo by Michael Cote. A bill introduced in Congress this week promises to roll back current ethanol blending requirements and may even curtail the spread of E15 through the nation’s fuel supply shou...
Subaru’s first production boxer engine, the EA-52. Photos courtesy of Subaru. Subaru was not the first automaker to adopt a horizontally opposed “boxer” four-cylinder engine for its automobiles, but ...