Photo courtesy Brent Karpinski This week, we’ve got something special to share with you: a reader sent a letter to Muscle Machines with a pic attached and…well, we’ll let the magazine’s editor, Terry...
Date: December 1961 Location: overlooking Putnam Street, Detroit, Michigan Source: Win Brunner, via Detroit Public Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
The oldest surviving American automobile, as The Henry Ford pointed out this week, exists in the museum’s collection, and it well predates the internal combustion engine. Smoke-belching steam locomot...
As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...
Court Avenue, Bellefontaine (left) and Woodward Avenue, Detroit (right). Photos courtesy AA Roads (left) and American Concrete Pavement Association (right). Earlier this year, a handful of Michigan g...
Roy Clark’s 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Station Wagon. Photo courtesy of Leake Auctions. Known for his show Hee Haw and hits like Yesterday When I was Young , the late Roy Clark also collected car...
Image courtesy Google Street View, August 2018. Five years ago, the future for the sales and service building at the former Ford Highland Park assembly plant — where the company first implemented its...
If you’re a regular getter and reader of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter, you no doubt jumped in on (if not were entertained by) the discussion around the factory muscle that was heaped upon us...
The Packard plant in August 2018. Image courtesy Google Street View. The collapsed production-line bridge at the former Packard plant may turn out to be a trifling worry to the current owner of the p...
Image courtesy Google Street View. At one point, wrapped in a graphic depicting it sans crumbling brick or rusted steel trusses, the bridge crossing Detroit’s East Grand Boulevard served as the emble...
Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...
Date: circa 1970s Location: Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Date: September 1968 Location: Fort and Eighth streets, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...
Tally up all of the vehicles in all of the photos in all of the carspotting posts we’ve run (more than 1,500 now!), and you’re talking tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of cars, trucks, buses, an...
Date: October 1965 Location: Lodge Expressway, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
There’s an early 1980s’ CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earli...
Jessica Hartwig’s typographic map of Detroit, via Detroitography. The inclusion of Woodward Avenue on PBS’ 10 Streets That Changed America was certainly warranted, given its role in the motorization ...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
Date: September 1977 Location: Third Avenue, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Digital Libraries What do you see here?
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. What went behind the decision to downsize pretty much every American automobile in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A May 1980 New Yorker article that Curbside Classic ...
Date: 1973 Location: Franklin and Chene streets, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Date: 1951 Location: Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Digital Collections What do you see here?