It was late spring 1969. This teenage farm boy had just experienced an event that was almost the equivalent of losing his virginity. School was out and I was helping a neighbor put up a fence across ...
Right-hand-drive 1987 Toyota Corolla for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This original Japanese imported AE86 is finished in brown exterior with custom interior. Paint is driver ...
Date: December 1961 Location: overlooking Putnam Street, Detroit, Michigan Source: Win Brunner, via Detroit Public Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
In the new feature film Ford v Ferrari , Matt Damon, who hails from Massachusetts, tries his hardest to “talk Texan” in his starring role as Carroll Shelby. I knew Carroll for the last half century o...
SSR-chassis 1950 Chevrolet pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Sits on 2004 Chevy SSR chassis sporting a 325 ci Vortec V8 with 300 hp and 335 lb/ft torque Vrated 205/50 Ha...
1982 Honda Motocompo scooter, ready for riding. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. By Honda’s original sales projections of 10,000 units per month, its three-year experiment building the Japanese-market...
Date: 1974 Location: SE 4th Street and SE 14th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: Linda Gammell, via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Looking for a pit bike or something to explore the local trails? Here’s a 1970 Honda Trail 70 for sale on Hemmings.com. Also known at the CT70. From the seller’s description: Christmas is coming! And...
Photo via Colani.org. Somewhere out there a metal figurine of a naked woman — her hair windswept back, her body prone but struggling for purchase against some hard-to-overcome force, and her left han...
All photos by Drew Phillips Every year at the Los Angeles Auto Show, local mega dealer Galpin Autos takes over a small space between the two main exhibit halls of the LA Convention Center and turns i...
1972 Citroen DS21 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Yes, I love my Citroen and you will too. The main reason I am selling is that my left arthritic ankle does not like the clut...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Volkswagen is now rolling out the eighth generation of its global best seller, the Golf, some 45 years after t...
1972 Dodge Charger SE for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1972 Dodge Charger SE, original 318 engine and transmission. Weekend driver. Always garaged, ZERO RUST, PERFECT BODY. Or...
No matter how much we may like cars, do any of us really enjoy going to a dealership? Haggling, getting sucked into the four-square method, politely chuckling at the dealer’s bad jokes, all when we r...
16-valve swapped 1981 Volkswagen Caddy for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This classic Mark 1 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup is in nice overall condition with many tasteful and fun up...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
Photos by Michael Chetcuti. In June of 1969, under codename E18, BMW engineers took delivery of an aggressively styled mid-engine coupe for development and testing. Except the car wasn’t theirs, wasn...
I don’t even know where to begin with this blog post, because my mind is blown by the fact that a website like Kyusha Shoes exists. It’s not just a database of photos of old wheels, but a searchable ...
1915 Buick C-4 Express (top); 1928 International SF-36. Images by the author. As the holiday season nears at a rapid pace, let’s launch Season Four of This or That with a couple of haulers – ideally ...
One of nine coachbuilt examples made for President Harry S. Truman, this 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Limousine is for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Coachwork by Henney Motor Co. ...
First off, props to Wray Schelin for taking on a circa-1945 Virgil Exner design as the inspiration for one of his student metalshaping projects. We’ve seen other such projects in the past – for insta...
We were talking about the hot rod revival that took place in this country some 25+ years ago (we’re not gonna call it “rat rod,” mmm’kay?) and it got us to thinking: there’s a lot more of a connectio...
Oh, wow. How often do you stumble across a snapshot that so perfectly wraps up everything amazing about America in the early ’80s? Pulling one of the greatest race cars ever built, on a flatbed trail...
Once upon a time, when you sold a car, that was the end of it. You said goodbye, it was traded in, you exchanged cash for a title from a newspaper ad, and you never saw it again. Or so I thought. Isn...
Alaskan postal service 1984 Jeep CJ-8 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1 of only 230 custom made by Jeep for the Alaskan Postal Service in 1984. This has the original 258 inli...