Rust-free V-6-powered 1988 Toyota pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is my 1988 Toyota Pickup 4X4 with the V6 (3VZ-E) engine and 5 speed manual transmission. I h...
Story by Jack Koobs de Hartog and Jürgen M. Wilms. Current photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Co. Much has been written about the genesis of the AMX/3 program and it is widely reported...
From the seller’s description: Chevrolet 1955 very rare 210 sport coupe (equals no post), w/factory 265 V8 (rare), 2-spd Powerglide (rare). Recently replaced brakes, wheel bearings, fuel tank, batter...
The Ant Farm, the same art collective that installed the Cadillac Ranch, involved another Cadillac in their 1975 performance art piece, “Media Burn,” captured in the above photo by John Turner. Turne...
One off-camera flash bracket + one quarter = instant screwdriver. A pair of Vise-Grips would have worked to hold the quarter too, but we didn’t have those either. Photos by author. While on the road ...
Date: circa 1955 Location: Main Street, Flin Flon, Manitoba Source: Vincent Murphy. “My old home town. An isolated mining town in northern Manitoba. Few cars until the highway to the south was comple...
Unrestored 1977 Pontiac Can Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2 Owner, 46k Original / Titled miles,, Fully documented w/ Original Window sticker, Original order form, Origin...
Photo by Chris McFarland. In a deal announced Thursday, January 5, Stanley Black & Decker has agreed to purchase the Craftsman brand from Sears Holdings for an initial payment of $525 million, an add...
1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom SS 427 (top); 1969 Mercury Marauder X-100 (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a featur...
1987 Buick GNX, number 547. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To give the popular Buick Grand National a fitting end-of-production send-off, the GM division planned a production run of 500 “super Grand...
Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. The widely recounted story goes like this: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., impressed by Renault’s win in the 1906 French Grand Prix, asked the automaker to build 10 scaled-...
1950 Ford Custom Tudor. Photo courtesy Art Bruns. Back in the early 1950s I was particularly attracted to the 1949-’51 Fords. When the new 1949 Ford was first introduced I thought it was the most mod...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Half-Dome, Yosemite National Park, California Source: Rondal Partridge, Library of Congress, via Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
Driveable dream 1977 Chrysler Newport for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The basics – 151,300 miles, 400 4-bbl, 4 door sedan, light package, manual windows and door locks but po...
Photo courtesy Goodwood Estate. A two-year-old European Union high court ruling became the center of controversy in the United Kingdom last month after racers there raised an alarm that the ruling’s ...
Photo courtesy Nick Arias Jr. Racing Components. Even before a high school aptitude test confirmed it, Nick Arias Jr. knew that his future would involve the “industrial arts.” Born to a railroad mach...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/ Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras,...
Date: circa 1959 to 1960 Location: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Source: Architect of the Capitol on Flickr What do you see in the parking lot here? UPDATE: Flipped the photo back around. Now the UF...
Dean Batchelor’s completely handbuilt 1956 Silver Bomb for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Silver Bomb represents one of the first American Special creations with proven succ...
Graham Hill drives his Lotus Type 49 to victory in the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsports. Throughout much of the sport’s history, the evolution of the Formula 1 racing car has ...
Photos by Jake Schreiber. It’s been a while since we’ve run an installment in the “From the Toolbox” series, but we recently received a pair of photos from reader Jake Schreiber that, quite frankly, ...
From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a very rare 1970 Buick LeSabre Custom 4 door Sedan. The car is all original and is in a great condition for being 46 years old. The engine starts right u...
Photos by the author and Mike McNessor. Though both Checker Motor and International Harvester operated in entirely different segments of the auto market, a newly discovered document from the Sixties ...
1964 AC Cobra (top); 1965 Griffith Series 200 (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 us, in an ...