Date: November 1957 Location: Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba Source: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections via ManitobaMaps on Flickr What do you see here?
Documented five-speed 1975 Fiat 130 Pininfarina coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I am selling this car on behalf of my father, a European-car enthusiast based in Connect...
Photos via Jon Mello collection. On track it didn’t do that well. Over its one-year racing career, it DNFd as many times as it finished and only recorded one podium. But it’s not the racing record th...
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...
Rob Ida has carried on his father Bob’s passion for modifying and crafting hot rods, race cars, and other wheeled projects, and gained notoriety some years back for creating replicas of the famous Tu...
Mishmosh of Chevrolet, Ford, and fire truck parts titled as a 1936 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Like any proper English bastard, there’s a paradox in the parts. While...
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...
Honda celebrates the first Japanese automobile fully assembled in the U.S.—an Accord sedan—on November 1, 1982, at their Marysville, Ohio, plant. Images courtesy of Honda. There was a time when buyin...
Most of us remember getting prizes in Cracker Jacks or our cereal boxes–ignoring the tooth-rotting junk above and digging to the bottom of the box for whatever trinket was awaiting liberation beneath...
From the seller’s description: 1950 Plymouth Special Deluxe Wagon Only 2,072 Special Deluxe wagons were produced for 1950, making the car offered here an uncommon opportunity. With a manufacturer’s p...
1970 Meyers Manx. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. While Texas state officials claim to be looking into the matter, the state’s DMV has outlawed any rebodied vehicles and has started to revoke titles and...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Buick Skylark convertible Power Steering Turbo Hydra-Matic Wildcat 310 motor Correct whitewall radials AM Sonomatic radio (works) All gauges and interior lights wo...
Photo by Terry McGean. “Where will you put that thing? There’s no room on my workbench!” Dad was angry. This wasn’t the first time I appropriated his “sanctuary,” the only place in our house where he...
Partially completed 1947 Cadillac Series 61 fastback for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car must be sold as part of an estate sale. The car was in progress of a major refur...
After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...
The passenger pigeon was once the most common bird in North America, with a population estimated as high as 5 billion, but on September 1, 1914, the last surviving example – a female named Martha – d...
Date: May 1951 Location: Manhasset, Long Island, New York Source: Gottscho-Schleisner collection, via the Library of Congress, via Shorpy What do you see here?
Lifted 1979 Ford Bronco for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This Bronco was purchased new in Idaho where it spent its whole life. It was ordered with the Free Wheeling Emblems, B...
Photo courtesy LandSpeed.com. Not much exists on the alkali flats of the Diamond Valley in central Nevada. While cattle ranchers and timothy grass farmers keep to the southern end of the valley, the ...
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
Photos by author. Many of us can attest to the fact that vintage cars require periodic attention or they begin to slip into a permanent state of rest that impedes future cruising enjoyment. And since...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C. Source: Historic American Buildings Survey, via the Library of Congress What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder turbo coupe. Original California car. Original black plates. Original Palomar Red. This vehicle went through nearly a complete resto...