There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
Could’ve sworn we’ve already run this photo of Las Vegas’s Fremont Street, submitted to us by Facebook reader Nikos Kostopoulus, but it’s not coming up in the searches, so let’s use it to cap off thi...
One man’s trash, it’s said, is another man’s treasure. While none of the cars gathered for this edition of the $5,000 challenge fall into the “trash” category, each has the potential of being a treas...
It isn’t likely that the first owner of this 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia, for sale on Hemmings.com, purchased his car for investment purposes, intent on preserving it for future generations. Life, as t...
Howard Arbiture, fed up with all the Vegas, Los Angeles, Vermont, Hartford, and New York photos we’ve been running in the carspotting series, decided we needed some Milwaukee sprinkled in there, so h...
Even restorations age – that car you redo today won’t remain pristine forever – but when the car’s removed from daily driver status, it tends not to age quite as fast. This 1966 AMC Rambler Classic 7...
Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to thw...
Thanks to reader Jack Shea, today’s carspotting comes rather close to the Hemmings backyard with a shot of Jumpin’ Jack’s Charcoal Pit and Twin-Freez in Scotia, about an hour away from Bennington. Lo...
To broaden the appeal of its compact Tempest, introduced for the 1961 model year, Pontiac added a convertible model to the lineup for 1962. Even in its debut year, the drop-top Tempest was a hit, sel...
Anybody who’s ever taken a side on the did-ZIS-really-copy-Packard debate and hasn’t ever actually traveled to Russia to examine an old ZIS in person, we present this 1947 ZIS 110 limousine for sale ...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
1958 Chevrolet Bel Air Impala Convertible. Photos courtesy General Motors. Chevrolet’s Impala has been around for a long, long time. Debuting in 1957 as a 1958 model, the Impala soldiered on (in its ...
Once more to Los Angeles, where, perhaps moreso than anyplace else in the world, the parade of people on the streets proves just as interesting as the parade of cars driving past. While we’ve always ...
Why two shots of coffee shops at night in the Fifties in the Los Angeles area (and both from the same Tumblog, Those Old Cars )? If we’re to believe everything we see in movies – and, naturally, we w...
Many thanks to the folks who, knowing of my penchant for Seventies Jeep and AMC products, tipped me to this 1972 AMC Matador two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. However, those same people also...
Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he wa...
Ford Heacock III. Photo courtesy Ford Heacock III. Established as CollectorGuard insurance in 1990 by Ford Heacock III, Heacock Classic insurance has earned a reputation for customer service among cl...
Let’s continue our visit to New York with another couple photos from the Historic American Engineering Record’s documentation of the Bronx’s Third Street El, starting with the photo above of the Ford...
Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic...
Thanks to Mark Peter Drolet on Tumblr, we came across this Jack Garofolo photo of Harlem in the 1970s, but tracking down the exact location proved a little more difficult. Florsheim Shoes and A.J. Le...
Photos via Customs and Hot Rods of Andice. The catalogs and reference books all say it shouldn’t exist, but according to both its owner and the shop that built it, the 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 that ...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. For a lot of folks, retirement looks like a lazy fishing hole or an endless round of golf. But a group of gearheads in Sun City West, Arizona, couldn’t imagine ...
Photo courtesy London Classic Car Show. Day continues to follow night, grass remains green, and the inhabitants of one car-producing country maintain that their car industry has produced the best car...
Photography by author. Back in the pre-war motoring days, few cars had heaters. Although under-dash heaters were a rare option, and dangerous as the early heaters used gasoline, even then many people...
It’s a misnomer to call any automotive restoration easy – restorations, when they’re done right, require plenty of effort and resources, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise – but some restoratio...