Coulda sworn we had another Alaska carspotting picture to go with yesterday’s submitted photo of Anchorage, but apparently not. So instead, let’s travel to the other non-contiguous U.S. state today w...
During the early days of the Cold War, in an effort to prepare cities for a potential nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, the federal government ordered up 1,300 Civil Defense Rescue Service truc...
A National Editorial Association press release photo, dated October 31, 1935, announces, “Helen Dryden, industrial designer for the Studebaker President, is the only woman to to invade man’s domain, ...
Reader Paul Nielsen sent us today’s carspotting photo, scanned from a slide that his father, Merrill, took in either 1961 or 1962 while he was working in Alaska. “It’s of Fourth Avenue in downtown An...
Note the changes in the gas stations and the proving grounds garage over 40 years. Photos courtesy of GM Heritage Center. Have you ever seen a “fish scale gadget” used to measure required clutch peda...
Just up the road from yesterday’s shots in Swanton come this set of Northland Motors, a used car dealership and Esso station on Route 7 in St. Albans. They date to a month earlier than the Swanton ph...
Photos courtesy Gary Keto and Geoff Hacker. A few months back, we got a call from Gary Keto, who had been going through his family’s things and found a bunch of photos of some old streamlined vehicle...
Sure, the Vermont Landscape Change photo above, which dates to May 5, 1966, and depicts Kenneth and Irene Casey’s cattle farm sometime before Interstate 89 came through and apparently wiped it out, d...
Photography by the author. A few weeks ago, I traveled to the St. Augustine area of Florida to photograph six automobiles from a private collection. Of the 18 cars that make up this delectable group,...
Longtime reader and commenter Gene Herman found today’s carspotting photo over on the Old Images of Philadelphia Facebook page and with a little googling, we pegged the location as Market and Front S...
Debuting in 1962 as a personal luxury coupe under the Studebaker brand, the Avanti has enjoyed more lives than the average house cat. Studebaker’s production of the Avanti ended in 1963, but the mode...
Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles e...
From Jeff at Vintage Las Vegas comes a very un-Vegaslike photo because, unless there’s some casino owner preparing an old right-hand-drive car themed resort, it ain’t from Vegas. Instead, Jeff noted ...
Not much in the description of this 1968 Buick Riviera for sale on Hemmings.com to tell us how much work it’s taken to get it to this point, but with less than 75,000 miles on the clock, we can presu...
Photo by John Butte. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Darlene and her friends had their first opportunity to see and experience one of the newest technologies: television. Some of the six girls (Regina Fenn...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In the first two parts of Project Apollo, I discussed finding, buying, and shipping my vintage car. That part of the story had largely been out of my hands, but once th...
While narrowing down a location for one of last week’s Hartford carspotting scenes, we had help from a few other photos in the collection Joe Sokola provided us that showed some key overlap. For exam...
Things in Canada are just a bit different than things in the United States. We eat chili cheese fries, while our neighbors to the north prefer poutine; we like football, they prefer hockey. The same ...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...
One could probably trace the entire length of the now-demolished Third Avenue El as it ran through the Bronx thanks to the photos in the Historic American Engineering Record – which, if you think abo...
So let’s burn through the rest of the Third Avenue El line photos from the Historic American Engineering Record over the next couple days. Above, the caption places the location at 183rd Street ; as ...
Every generation of auto enthusiast has a decade that resonates with them, for better or for worse. While the cars of the 1970s may have been crippled by emission regulations and plagued by occasiona...
Photos by author. If you like the aggressive lines of the fastback body style as well as the spacious luxury of a full-size automobile, think Delmont. If you never heard of a Delmont, you’re not alon...
Let’s remain in the PNW for today’s carspotting scene, though we’ll have to give up aircraft carrier decks for this land-based scene in Olympia, presumably downtown, though we’ve yet to come across a...
Some cars really speak for themselves, and some cars have a lot to say when it comes to speaking for themselves. Then there’s this 1982 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista for sale on Hemmings.com, a Les D...