Portion of the Willow Run bomber and assembly plant. Image via Yankee Air Museum video. Of its original 5-million square feet, only about 144,000 square feet of the Willow Run bomber plant — which la...
From the seller’s description: 1950 Plymouth Special Deluxe Wagon Only 2,072 Special Deluxe wagons were produced for 1950, making the car offered here an uncommon opportunity. With a manufacturer’s p...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Buick Skylark convertible Power Steering Turbo Hydra-Matic Wildcat 310 motor Correct whitewall radials AM Sonomatic radio (works) All gauges and interior lights wo...
Photo by Terry McGean. “Where will you put that thing? There’s no room on my workbench!” Dad was angry. This wasn’t the first time I appropriated his “sanctuary,” the only place in our house where he...
Partially completed 1947 Cadillac Series 61 fastback for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car must be sold as part of an estate sale. The car was in progress of a major refur...
After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...
The passenger pigeon was once the most common bird in North America, with a population estimated as high as 5 billion, but on September 1, 1914, the last surviving example – a female named Martha – d...
Date: May 1951 Location: Manhasset, Long Island, New York Source: Gottscho-Schleisner collection, via the Library of Congress, via Shorpy What do you see here?
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C. Source: Historic American Buildings Survey, via the Library of Congress What do you see here?
Photo by Amy Friedenberger, The Roanoke Times. Since opening to the public in 2000, the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum in Roanoke, Virginia, has educated visitors about the history, use and effi...
Photos by the author. In 1999, no American Motors products had entered judging at the Mopar Nationals, let alone completed for top honors. DeWayne Ashmead, however, didn’t let a thing like precedent ...
While photographing a 1969 Buick Riviera on Long Island recently for a forthcoming feature in Hemmings Classic Car magazine, the car owner, Eric Sporrer, showed me some of the many pieces of original...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...
Image via IMCDB.org. So you’ve got a car, and it’s probably been referenced in the movies or on TV somehow. Or in comics. Or in a popular song. And, of course, at every car show people want to know i...
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...
1929 Lincoln L series dual-cowl phaeton for sale. From the seller’s description: This is an excellent touring automobile. Total restoration in the 60’s. It has been a one owner car since restoration ...
Two of the various Fiat 508 C sedans that took part in the GP Nuvolari, quietly parked under fitting buildings. All photos by the author. After that very charming Desenzano Sunday, spent together wit...
Customized 1941 Cadillac Series 62 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This was built by me as a tribute car to what was being done in 1941 by shops like Coachcraft, Don Lee & ot...
Date: March 1940 Location: Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada Source: Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, via Shorpy What do you see here?
1955 Chevrolet. Still image from video below. Would you like to see a 1955 Chevy put through its paces on the test track at the GM Proving Ground? How about one pulling 16 other full-size cars to pro...