Bird-watching from afar: Name this specimen
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
1969 Pontiac GTO convertible (top); 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report between...
1959 Mercury Park Lane convertible (top, image by Richard Lentinello); 1960 Buick LeSabre convertible (bottom, image by the author). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two...
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...
We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...
Photo by Cliff. Following a decade of inactivity and a multi-million-dollar sale, the former GM assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, which once employed as many as 7,000 workers, will soon be red...
1905 Packard Model N Runabout (top; image by author); 1910 Elmore Model 36 Demi-tonneau (bottom; image by Terry Shea). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but...
All images courtesy GM Media. “If you don’t look back at your car after you park it, you own the wrong car” (anonymous). ———————- I couldn’t believe my good luck. A junior high friend invited me to j...
1982 Buick Grand National Regal (top); 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo SS (bottom); images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that...
Portion of the Willow Run bomber and assembly plant. Image via Yankee Air Museum video. Of its original 5-million square feet, only about 144,000 square feet of the Willow Run bomber plant — which la...
The Henry Ford. Photo by Jim Culp. Calling it “one of the most historical and game-changing partnerships” in the history of the institution, The Henry Ford officials on Tuesday announced a $5-million...
In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren’t for sale, the things that people for one reason or anothe...
Perhaps not the easiest way to remove graffiti from a Moskvitch 412, but a group of street artists in Russia ingeniously turned it into a piece of “disappearing” street art with some clever paint wor...
Ad courtesy of Roger Peroutka. Rarely have auto manufacturers had advertising created to showcase the talent of their engineers, and the concept cars they built. But this ad from 1952 showcases two G...
Photos by Jason Robinson, courtesy GM. More than 100,000 documents and artifacts related to Flint carriagebuilding and early General Motors history have made their way to the newly reopened Flint fac...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
We had expected to see a lot more automotive tributes to Chuck Berry following his death last weekend; after all, cars were an integral part to the mixture of influences he used to conjure up rock an...
1969 Hurst/Olds 455 (top); 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables ...
Photo courtesy ChromeCars. At one point its owners abandoned it by the roadside, considering it worth less than the gas no longer in its tank. More than 50 years later, one of the nine known Futurlin...
1979 Chevy Camaro Z28 (top); 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enab...
Text and photos by Jim Garrison. It is a common misconception, even in the Kalamazoo community, that Checker Motors went out of business when they stopped making taxicabs. In fact, the case is quite ...
From the seller’s description: 1972 Camaro Z28, from it’s current owner and restorer… Time for this lovely car to get into the hands of someone who will use it and show it. It is too nice to just sit...
Text courtesy Joe Essid. Photos courtesy Marty Martino and GM Media. Marty Martino, owner of Martino Productions, should be known by now to Hemmings readers for his work on restoring several 1950s GM...
Futurliner No. 3. Photos via MAG Auctions. While a much-hyped and fully restored Futurliner consigned to auction apparently failed to sell over the weekend, another one of the 12 GM Parade of Progres...
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...