Date: circa 1951 Location: Granville Street and 11th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver archives, via Those Old Cars What do you see here?
1963 Chevrolet Impala, Owner Lee Cordova of Alcalde, New Mexico, 1998. Photo by Jack Parsons, courtesy New Mexico Digital Collections. In the mid-Eighties, MTV descended on the northern New Mexico ci...
Chris Amon (R) with Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1967. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Best remembered for his win in the Ford GT40 Mk IIA with co-driver Bruce McLaren in the 1966 24 Hour...
Images courtesy of the author’s collection. Starting with the 1966 model year and continuing on into the early ’70s, a recurring magazine-ad motif for Ford’s personal-luxury Thunderbird centered on p...
1990 Ford Mustang GT hatchback for sale. From the seller’s description: If you’ve been longing for a Fox Body Beauty then your search is over. This 5.0 has always been garage kept and covered. The lo...
Tucker 1044, at rest in its former Ohio home. Photos courtesy Mark Lieberman. Mark Lieberman knows a thing or two about Tuckers; he’s owned three, two of which have gone on to set record prices in pr...
Hot August Nights in downtown Reno, 2014. Photo by Marcello Rostagni, courtesy Hot August Nights. Since 1986, Hot August Nights (HAN) has been drawing hot rod and custom car fans from around the glob...
Lamborghini P140 prototype. P140 photos by Ronan Glon. Lamborghini needed to replace both the Countach and the Jalpa in the late 1980s. While the Countach was a range-topping, V12-powered flagship, t...
From the seller’s description: 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass S for sale on Hemmings.com. with 442 and Hurst Olds upgrades. Original 350 cu. in. engine and new 200-4R transmission. Bucket seat interior came...
Hemmings archive photo. One would presume that a company that not only built the Yugo but also withstood international sanctions and a NATO bombing campaign and nevertheless continued to build cars c...
Photography by author. One additional item I found at the flea market, in the pile of boxes destined for the dumpster that I discussed in An emergency automobilia and tool rescue effort, was deservin...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “ Born from Jets ” tagline of the mid-2000s may have seemed fresh at the time -if a bit far-fetched for the then-GM subsidiary- but ...
From the seller’s description: 1937 GMC Open Touring Bus , 6 cylinder, Oldsmobile engine. Seats 15- 20 passengers. Been in storage under cover since 2005. At that time, it had new tires, brake shoes,...
An M4 Sherman tank, displayed on the grounds of the Normandy Tank Museum. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In 2013, military vehicle collector Patrick Nerrant opened the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, Franc...
1933 Ford Model 40 three-window coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Take a good look at this beautiful, extremely solid and rare “Henry Steel 3 Window Coupe” in the final s...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...
With the Elite, Lotus took a big step up-market. Launched in 1974, the Type 75 Elite (not to be confused with the Type 14 Elite of 1957) was more luxurious, and more expensive, than any previous Lotu...
Some people fill their garages with old cars to restore. Joel Baker fills his with 20-foot-tall fiberglass muffler men of multiple configurations, many of which he’s documented as part of his America...
Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. The original Mini is often credited for laying the foundations of the city car as we know it today. However, that ...
From the seller’s description: There were just 1001 Town & Country convertibles built in 1949 and it is estimated that approximately 130 remain. This numbers matching 1949 Chrysler Town & Country con...
1946 Nash Ambassador. Photo by the author. Charles Nash, by most accounts, got along all right with Charles Durant. He just knew he couldn’t continue to work with the man who’d brought him into the a...
Photography by author. In “A Dog’s Life,” an episode of the classic TV show The Honeymooners, Alice adopts a dog from the pound without Ralph’s knowledge. Foraging for a snack in the icebox, neighbor...