Date: circa 1970 Location: Astrodome, Houston, Texas Source: Clint Sundholm photo, courtesy Gary Sundholm. “Taken on one of dad’s many business trips, the Astrodome the focal point. He would have bee...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Date: August or September 1964 Location: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California Source: Clint Sundholm photo, courtesy Gary Sundholm. “Taken while on a family trip from Austra...
1966 Mercury Park Lane two-door hardtop for sale. From the seller’s description: This beautifully optioned classic is completely original, unrestored, rust free and remains in very good to excellent ...
Photo courtesy Library of Congress. From the beginning, the architects of the National Historic Vehicle Register intended to not only document some of the country’s most important vehicles, but also ...
The late day sun illuminates the grille and the concours-quality detailed front suspension of this 1969 Buick GS 400, but the importance of this photo for this article is how the side has reflected t...
Photo courtesy Ford Media. For the first few years, Ford manufactured average-priced cars and a few expensive cars: Models A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. In addition, there were experimental models that...
Garage-find 1970 Mercury Marauder X-100 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 92,691 original miles 8-cyl. 429cid Good condition, some rust around wheel wells. Original paint, most...
San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...
389-cu.in. Tri-Power V-8 beneath the hood of a 1964 Pontiac GTO. Photo by author. On July 5, automaker Volvo Cars announced that every vehicle it launches after 2019 will be powered — in part or whol...
1918 Ford Model TT stake bed. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company, unless otherwise noted. Announced on January 11, 1917, and introduced to the public six months later, Ford’s one-ton truck chassis — ...
Typical soap box derby stock cars. Photo by thegforcers. Formulas and templates dominate pretty much all forms of racing, and soap box derby racing is no exception. The stock car template in soap box...
The day that I fell in love with Chrysler products was the day that my dad pulled into our driveway in our brand new yellow and white 1957 Plymouth Savoy sport coupe. I was just 6 years old at the ti...
Original unrestored 1980 AMC Concord DL for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 258 ci “6” Automatic transmission, power steering, power front disc brakes, COLD A/C, tilt wheel, recl...
Photos courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Kaela Petkovits grew up in her father’s Checker taxis as he drove the streets of Seattle in the Eighties and dreamed of having her own to drive somed...
Photo courtesy BridgetMGTD. Even though cars are nothing more than machines, their growing complexity has led plenty of drivers, mechanics, and enthusiasts to believe there’s something more going on ...
Let’s face it – a dollar, or in this case 5,000 of them, doesn’t buy what it used to. Often, the toughest part of penning the regular $5,000 Challenge series is finding cars from our classifieds with...
1965 Pontiac Bonneville 2-door hardtop for sale. From the seller’s description: This car is very original and only has 39k miles on it. The interior is all original except for the carpet which was re...
1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. By 1938, Packard had been out of the truck manufacturing business for 15 years, but a brief collaboration with t...
The Coatesville Invitational Vintage Grand Prix brings classic cars in (rapid) motion to the historic downtown of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Images courtesy Ryan P. McWilliams/Hi-Test Photography. “L...