Plenty of places have called themselves a Disneyland for car guys, but apparently the real Disneyland for car guys was at Disneyland itself way back on its grand opening in 1955 – that is, right outs...
The Ford Thunderbird began life in 1953 as a direct response to Chevrolet’s recently unveiled Corvette prototype. Calling in some major players in the design field, the Thunderbird rapidly developed ...
In 1959, Oldsmobile sold 194,102 examples of its newly restyled “Linear Look” Dynamic 88, but only 11,298 of these were the Fiesta station wagon, making it the second least common body style. Today, ...
This 1951 Muntz Jet for sale on Hemmings.com definitely won’t make for an easy restoration – after all, there’s no manual for restoring a limited-production car like this that received an unorthodox ...
Sometimes, the right weekend car isn’t a car at all. Somewhere between restored and resto-modded, this driver-quality 1952 Ford F1 pickup, for sale on Hemmings.com, sports a considerable amount of wo...
From Alden Jewell comes perhaps the most jam-packed carspotting image we’ve had in a while, one sure to keep y’all busy for days to come, and one that we’re pretty sure we haven’t previously run. The...
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainte...
We’re sure it’s no coincidence that Vintage Las Vegas posted two collections including shots of the Silver Slipper Saloon in quick succession recently, and as it just so happens both feature a decent...
Every car has a story, and we can’t help wonder about the tale behind this 1951 Nash Statesman Super, for sale on Hemmings.com. The Nash Statesman wasn’t a limited-production car, nor was it the kind...
Aimed at commercial customers, DKW’s Schnellaster series came in a variety of formats, ranging from compact pickups though panel vans. Window vans, like this 1957 DKW Schnellaster Kastenwagen 3=6, fo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Howard Arbiture, fed up with all the Vegas, Los Angeles, Vermont, Hartford, and New York photos we’ve been running in the carspotting series, decided we needed some Milwaukee sprinkled in there, so h...
We consider them legends today, but the people racing at Bonneville in the early 1950s were for the most part just regular guys looking to go fast. Fortunately, a couple enthusiasts went out there wi...
Let’s be honest: Back in the 1950s, no one bought panel vans as daily drivers. Instead, they were generally snapped up by plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and business owners needing a re...
Why two shots of coffee shops at night in the Fifties in the Los Angeles area (and both from the same Tumblog, Those Old Cars )? If we’re to believe everything we see in movies – and, naturally, we w...
Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he wa...
While the AACA Library’s working to digitize its existing film collection, as we learned this past week, it already has quite a few neat videos on its YouTube page, including the one above of the 195...
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul...
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 1...
Let’s stay in St. Petersburg and in 1958 and with ElectroSpark’s found photos for today’s carspotting exercise, starting with the above image looking east on Central Avenue. Might it be December in t...
It’s been a few years, but we did mention Webb’s City in St. Petersburg once before, and today we’re going to carspot the carspotter, perched above the cars in the Webb’s City parking lot in search o...