All photos by the author To the casual observer this pile of rusted metal is just that – a pile of rusted, crumpled, useless metal. But it’s more than that. Believe it or not, it’s the body of a 1935...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
Photo by GmanViz. Though Craig Corbell said he got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, he’s decided to drop the project altogether and put the rights for ...
1937 Delage D8 Aerosport — Image courtesy of the Studebaker National Museum. As we enter the last month of the first quarter, the Studebaker National Museum, located in South Bend, Indiana, has opene...
Photos by Geoff Hacker, except where noted. Photo History Starting in the autumn of 1952 until the spring of 1954 I was a student at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying mechanic...
Roughly 20 Duesenbergs spanning the company’s 16 years of production will be on display (on a rotation basis) at the Gilmore Car Museum through Fall 2019. All images courtesy of the Gilmore Car Museu...
Brandon Anderson. Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Brandon Anderson learned how to drive stick in a 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle, on his family’s property in northern Indiana,...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Built in 1929. Restored once (incorrectly) in the Seventies. Has seen some weather-related damage since. Needs a second restoration. While that descripti...
Google’s satellite view tells the same old tale: New houses encroaching on an old junkyard. Hat tip to KSL-TV for breaking this story. As the 1920s aviation craze gave way to the harsh realities of t...
Preserved 1936 Cord 810 Westchester for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: What you are looking at is my matching engine 1936 Cord 810 Westchester. It also retains its 1936 step bor...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...
Argentine Ruben Vinyolas crafts some spectacular scale Model Ts with many functioning parts including… a running engine? Mac’s Motor City Garage has more. * The last major renovation to a stretch of ...
The Mormon Meteor Duesenberg. Photos by David LaChance. Next month, an event commemorating the racing successes of some of America’s most storied carmakers will feature an appearance by a landmark Du...
1937 Cord 812. Photo by Jeff Koch. Eighty years ago, the Cord epitomized the car of the future. Now, thanks in part to legislation intended to encourage low-volume replica car builders, the Cord may ...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...
Note what you don’t see on this 1937 Cord 812 for sale on Hemmings.com: badges, cloissones, and other decoration from years and years of participating in shows and scooping up awards. That’s because ...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
In 1929, the race to make a feasible, mass produced front-wheel-drive car had been won by the Cord L-29 as it beat out the Ruxton. Front-wheel-drive vehicles had proven successful in the racing indus...
Gute Zeiten für altes Blech Die Preise für alte Ferrari und Porsche gehen derzeit durch die Decke (jaja, wir schreiben dann noch was über den neuen «Weltrekord»). Und sie ziehen praktische alle Sport...