According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we’re in Ferndale – specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward – sometime during the Fifties. And if we che...
The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be mod...
Images via MotorCities National Heritage Area, Walter P. Reuther Library. Plans for what will be Detroit’s newest park call for plenty of trees and gardens, walkways and reflection pools, even a kaya...
More than 300 invited guests and members view 33 genuine Indy cars from 9 different decades – a full field under one roof – celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s No...
Photos by the author What could be more apt than criss-crossing the country in a motor home from the same company that sent hundreds of Conestoga wagons down the Oregon Trail? Believe it or not, this...
1994 Jaguar XJ220. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. With a Nurburging Nordschliefe lap of 7:46.36 and a 213 MPH top speed, it was once the fastest productio...
Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before – several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change pro...
Though this 1908 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com may not have been an original stunt parade car from the first half of the 20th Century, it has its own unique history – specifically as a stunt ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
Charles Kuralt’s 1984 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. According to three years of pricing history on Hemmings.com, Jeep CJ-8 Scramblers carry an average asking price of roughly ...
Photography by the author. My son recently found a vintage cassette called Cruisin’ Classics Volume II 70’s & 80’s, which was offered by Shell. Knowing that I’m always looking for automotive-related ...
Photos by author. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s Motorbooks International published a line of small hardcover books called the Osprey AutoHistory series. These compact books were 7 1/2 x 8 1/2...
Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us, showing a stretch of businesses along Farmington Avenue just east...
At what point does a restoration on a car become an “older restoration?” Perhaps that doesn’t depend so much on time passed since the restoration, but on a car’s usage since and maintenance of its re...
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he p...
Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you’ve never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl...
Photo by Randy Rundle. As with the previous installment, this tool (or more correctly, die set) comes to us from reader Randy Rundle. Though the scale is not provided, the largest die (on the right) ...
In the early 1970s, Chrysler had a significant share of the law enforcement market, thanks to offerings like the Plymouth Fury, the Dodge Polara, the Dodge Cornet and the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite...
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he own...
Oldsmobile’s 4-4-2 became a separate model on the all-new ’68 edition, rather than an option on the Cutlass. The base Sports Coupe carried a starting MSRP of $3,063, the hardtop Holiday Coupe started...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...
After years of playing whack-a-mole with electrical gremlins in my 1971 Volvo 1800E, I decided to start from scratch with a brand-new wiring harness. However, as you can tell from the nearly two-year...
Returning to the college parking lot photo series that Dean Luchaco sent us, we see just how bad the parking situation was, with not a spot left in this lot and with cars lining the street that conne...
As appealing as full-size vintage wagons may be, their compact siblings are arguably a better choice for a weekend classic car. Big enough to haul the groceries, the dog, and a few passengers, they’r...
Photo via Roy Lunn Archives, Car Guy Chronicles. To different groups of car enthusiasts, Roy Lunn represents vastly different accomplishments. There are Ford’s GT40 wins at Le Mans, for which he’s pe...