From the seller’s description: Beautifully restored 1942 Nash Ambassador 6 Slipstream Sedan. Great value for a all around restored car with very nice paint, interior, wood grain, glass and excellent ...
Photos courtesy Virginia Historical Society. While researching an upcoming story on the Kline Kar, I found some information about the car on the Virginia Historical website. The automobiles were manu...
Date: 1970 (above); October 1956 (below) Location: unknown (above); Harrison Street and Taylor Avenue (below) Source: Seattle Municipal Archives on Flickr What do you see here?
Just out of restoration 1966 Lincoln Continental convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I acquired this car in April of 2010. This car has been in restoration for almost...
Photo by the author. Just about everybody in Wednesday’s Congressional subcommittee hearing addressing the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act seemed to agree that nobody wants to bring an ...
Date: circa 1962 Location: Cherry Street between Seventh and Eights avenues, Seattle, Washington Source: Seattle Municipal Archives on Flickr What do you see here?
Photos by Greg Keysar, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Ironically, while Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s designs emphasized streamlining and speed, the 14-passenger bus he drew up for White to sell to tour operators ...
Date: circa 1970s Locations: Alaskan Way at Columbia Street (above); University Street and Alaskan Way (below) Source: Seattle Municipal Archives on Flickr Aside from the glum chum, what do you see h...
From the seller’s description: Believe this to be a numbers matching 1959 Plymouth Belvedere 2 door hard top . 318 V8 automatic w/ pushbutton on the dash. Power steering, brand new wide whites from U...
Unrestored 1962 Pontiac Parisienne for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 283 ci V8 2 spd powerglide automatic Power Steering, Power Brakes. This is a totally original car just out ...
1971 Chevrolet Nomad station wagon for sale. From the seller’s description: A unique opportunity to own a very low mileage mostly original Chevelle Nomad Wagon. In storage for almost 20 years in Taco...
AMC’s Plymouth Road headquarters in July 2009 (left) and October 2016 (right). Images courtesy Google Street View. Despite earlier discussions entertaining the possibility of demolishing the Detroit ...
1973 Pontiac Grand Am. Brochures from author’s collection. I’ll admit up front that I’ve always preferred vintage two-door performance cars to those with four-doors. That said, it doesn’t mean that I...
1961 Oldsmobile Starfire convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: The Starfire was the top-of-the-line Oldsmobile in 1961, and available only as a convertible. Performance cars were just ...
Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...
1933 Duesenberg Model SJ sweep panel phaeton by LaGrande, the auction’s top seller. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy Auctions America. It’s probably no surprise that a major automotive auction held ...
Still image from video below. My son recently got his driver’s permit, which means a few nights per week we take a ride with him at the wheel so he can practice for his license test in December. Fort...
From the seller’s description: Rare 1955 Mercury Montclair Sun Valley (glass top). Only 1787 of these were made in 1955, the last year of the Sun Valley. Estimated 175 or less remaining. Highly colle...
From the seller’s description: 1958 Ford F100 Van . Excellent original condition. Rust free California car. Built in San Jose. 6 cylinder, 3 on the tree. Original engine and drive train. New seals an...
Rob Ida’s Tucker Torpedo body. The wooden buck was based upon a 3D scan of the original scale model. Images courtesy Rob Ida unless otherwise noted. Before there was a Tucker 48, there was a Tucker T...
Photography by author. Virgil Exner was gone, past his expiration date as Chrysler’s chief stylist. Granted, he wasn’t the only one who penned cars for Chrysler, but some of his early work, such as t...