We do love a good mystery. And when it’s backed up by a neat story, nay, legend, count us in, kid. And so it is with the legend of a certain ’56 Chevy post coupe that ran the San Francisco Bay area b...
Photo by tpsdave. We’re continuing to post closures, postponements, and cancellations due to the coronavirus, including the recent announcement that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will not host an I...
Date: March 1958 Location: Ellis and Taylor streets, San Francisco, California Source: Robert Durden Color Slide Collection, via San Francisco Public Library What do you see here?
Date: May 1962 Location: Turk and Leavenworth streets, San Francisco, California Source: San Francisco Public Library on Flickr What do you see here?
Date: 1974 Location: San Francisco, California East Commerce Street, Lewisburg, Tennessee Source: via vintagetravellove What do you see here? UPDATE (21.October): Thanks to preston murrey and Erik be...
Date: 1974 Location: San Francisco, California Source: via vintagetravellove What do you see here?
Photo by Mark Heard. For decades, Lombard Street – the so-called “crookedest street in the world” – has served as one of the essential tourist stops in San Francisco, as instantly recognizable as the...
Date: 1961 Location: El Camino Real/Interstate 80, San Francisco, California Source: via Stephan What do you see here?
One of our favorite features of the Muscle Machines weekly is this historic photo thing we’ve been doing for awhile now. And, by the number of responses, we think you all agree! Couldn’t be happier a...
An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
Date: circa 1960 Location: Valencia Street, San Francisco, California Source: via Eric Fischer What do you see here?
Date: circa 1960s Location: San Francisco, California Source: via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
Date: circa 1948 Location: Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California Source: SFPD, via John Sanchez What do you see here?
Date: August or September 1964 Location: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California Source: Clint Sundholm photo, courtesy Gary Sundholm. “Taken while on a family trip from Austra...
San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...
Date: circa 1980 Location: somewhere in San Francisco Source: Ralf K on the Hemmings Nation Flickr Pool What do you see here?
Date: circa 1960s Location: somewhere in San Francisco Source: Framepool.com What do you see here?
Date: 1952 Location: Sacramento Street and Mason Street, San Francisco, California Source: Shorpy What do you see here?
Photo courtesy Academy of Art University. To teach old car appreciation to the next generation, basically. We’ve previously mentioned the fact that the San Francisco-based Academy of Art University r...
100% drone footage of dancing cars "King of the Streets" Low Rider Show in San Francisco. Many people from the Low Rider show and Lowrider community been sending me messages every other week since th...
Depth of Speed was born from a desire of story, travel and a love of anything automotive related. Next year my wife and I will be taking to the streets to uncover and document the greatest stories fr...
Two shots of California that bookend the Eighties today. Above, from the Shorpy Fan Tumblog, a circa 1981 look north along Hyde Street in San Francisco with Alcatraz in the background, an iconic cabl...
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage constructio...
Today’s pair of carspotting photos, which came from mybelair62 on Tumblr, come with no context, so we’re left with what we can see in the photos and our imaginations. So let’s start with what we can ...
Could’ve sworn we previously ran these two images of San Francisco that Those Old Cars recently posted, but after a review of our voluminous (750-plus) carspotting archives, it appears not, so let’s ...