Eric Szabo had a lot going for him, according to the few English-language accounts we’ve been able to find of his career. Moscow School of Industrial Art graduate; designer for ZIS/ZIL and NAMI; depu...
Drawings by George Lawson, via Cooper Hewitt. The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly m...
Double decker bus? Double decker bus! It’s a 1981 Bristol Bus for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: HERES A UNIQUE ITEM!! 1981 BRISTOL DOUBLE DECKER BUS IMPORTED FROM LONDON AFTER ...
Ever wonder how school buses almost universally came to wear not just yellow but a specific shade of yellow ? Smithsonian Magazine dug up the answer, which has less to do with caprice and more to do ...
For more than 50 years, a 1948 Studebaker has resided on the second story of the Greider family’s garage near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At least, it did until this month, when it was removed for a res...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Fifty years ago, while Alan Bean watched his fellow astronauts walk on the moon knowing that he too would soon leave footprints there...
Photo courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Directors of both the Museum of Bus Transportation and that museum’s host, the AACA Museum, have said that they intend to wrap up the merger of the two mu...
The Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine this week looked into why Corvettes and astronauts from the Right Stuff era are forever linked. After Shepard joined NASA, he struck up a friendship with Genera...
Motorhome conversion 1954 Flxible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original Mount Rainier National Park Tour Bus Rare Scenic Roof Sightseer Windows: This unique and well docum...
Photos courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Since the opening of the AACA Museum more than 15 years ago, the Museum of Bus Transportation has showcased a small fleet of transit buses, school buses,...
Photos courtesy Museum of Bus Transportation. Since the opening of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum more than 15 years ago, the Museum of Bus Transportation has showcased a small fleet o...
My first ride in Greyhound’s Scenicruiser was like going to heaven. Hemmings file photo. “Can you spare a buck?” the alcohol-challenged “gentleman” asked loudly. Where did he come from? Why didn’t se...
Amid the big announcements from GM this past week came the news that the company was canceling a number of models, including the Impala, which this year turned 60. Eric Lawrence at the Detroit Free P...
In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...
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...
Stoughton-bodied 1920 Chevrolet 14-passenger bus for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vehicle mostly likely saw service in Pennsylvania ferrying passengers to and from the Fo...
For the Fourth of July, Summit’s OnAllCylinders took a look at perhaps the only vehicle to exclusively wear red, white, and blue throughout its entire production run: the AM General Dispatcher Jeep. ...
Sean Kennedy’s 1945 Chevrolet school bus hot rod — note the custom air cleaner. Photos courtesy The Vintage Tour Bus Company. After several decades in the film and entertainment business, Sean Kenned...
Images courtesy Profiles in History. “Just like driving a really big Pinto,” except Sandra Bullock’s character from the 1994 flick Speed wasn’t referring to the handling characteristics of the GM New...
Photos courtesy VeA. France’s capital city isn’t known for being particularly friendly to vintage automobiles—with a controversial old-car ban making news in recent years —but Parisians certainly app...
The remains of the Commonwealth Coach and Trolley Museum. Photos courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. On November 1, a fire destroyed the building that once housed the Commonwealth Coac...
Photo by Amy Friedenberger, The Roanoke Times. Since opening to the public in 2000, the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum in Roanoke, Virginia, has educated visitors about the history, use and effi...
School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...
Photos by Greg Keysar, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Ironically, while Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s designs emphasized streamlining and speed, the 14-passenger bus he drew up for White to sell to tour operators ...