While the Ford Escort did an admirable job in rallying in the late Sixties, the company still found itself outclassed in the Monte Carlo by the likes of Porsche and Renault with its Alpine, so to com...
At first glance it might look like a Cuban special, but this 1954 Chevrolet for sale on Hemmings.com is actually a veteran of Le Carrera Panamericana, though the ad doesn’t mention its record in the ...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to ente...
Vintage trucks have an undeniable appeal, and this 1948 Ford F3, for sale on Hemmings.com, is certainly no exception to the rule. With a known history that dates back to its delivery in July of 1948,...
For a slightly-above-mid-level Nash sedan, this 1951 Nash Statesman Custom for sale on Hemmings.com has a good amount of flash – particularly on that dashboard – and compelling proportions. Nor are t...
When you’re hundreds of miles from your destination and in the midst of territory that’s both beautiful and remote, what kind of motorized companion do you want? One that’s reliable, no doubt, and ea...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...
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...
Even without any provenance attached to it, this 1954 Oldsmobile 98 custom for sale on Hemmings.com is a good glimpse at how regular Joes went about customizing their rides in the late Fifties. It mi...
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...
Two old postcard photos for today’s carspotting scene, both from the big sky town of Kalispell, both of which we came across on William Bird’s Flickrstream. Above, we see the intersection of Main and...
One benefit to leaving cars unrestored and unaltered is that they more clearly tell the stories of the people who previously owned them. Take, for instance, this 1955 Buick Special Estate Wagon for s...
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...
No gas shortage in these two photos that Terry Koenig’s father took in August of 1958 and that The Old Motor recently published. Rather, the reason for the lines was the exact opposite: The Flying A ...
Two recent photos on Vintage Las Vegas not only show Fremont Street at night – not unusual in itself, given how spectacular Glitter Gulch looked once the sun went down – but show it almost exactly 10...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try...
While researching the origin of the postcard photo that Jim and Chester’s Garage posted above (Newfound Gap right on the Tennessee-North Carolina border just off Route 441 ), we came across plenty mo...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
Also while clearing out old bookmarks, we came across a few Charles W. Cushman photos we haven’t yet used in our carspotting series, including these two from Colorado Springs. Above, we see the Antle...
The phenomenon of converting used luxury cars into wreckers more or less ended with the Depression, but as we can see from this 1950 Buick Roadmaster -based wrecker for sale on Hemmings.com, the idea...
Why do we keep showing vintage films from Bonneville? Could be the stark beauty of the salt flats. Could be the famous cars and their drivers, then just amateurs in pursuit of speed. Could be the DIY...
At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...
One more from Tom Simpson’s Disneyland opening series on Flickr – we considered combining it with yesterday’s shot from the lot, but considering the volume of cars here, it almost seemed like too muc...
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of...