Bill Frick may be best known as the mechanical genius behind the Fordillac and, later, the Studillac, but his automotive dreams were grander than dropping Cadillac engines in someone else’s cars. Par...
There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, o...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage constructio...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
Also while clearing out old bookmarks, we came across a few Charles W. Cushman photos we haven’t yet used in our carspotting series, including these two from Colorado Springs. Above, we see the Antle...
The phenomenon of converting used luxury cars into wreckers more or less ended with the Depression, but as we can see from this 1950 Buick Roadmaster -based wrecker for sale on Hemmings.com, the idea...
Photos courtesy ChipFoose.com, Hooker Headers, SEMA. Chip Foose’s ubiquity in hot rodding and customizing is no mere fluke of reality television. Instead, the custom car designer’s more than 25 years...
It seems like everybody had a Model T in the 1920s, but there were alternatives. Image via lov2xlr8. My wife and I have three daughters. The oldest will graduate high school in 2025. Perhaps you’ve s...
Plymouth fans looking for inexpensive transportation in 1972 had ample choices in the Valiant lineup, including a pair of two-door Dusters, a four-door sedan and a two-door hardtop sold under the Sca...
Why do we keep showing vintage films from Bonneville? Could be the stark beauty of the salt flats. Could be the famous cars and their drivers, then just amateurs in pursuit of speed. Could be the DIY...
Still image from video below. Possibly possessing the longest subtitle ever —The People From Fisher Body Who Help Bring A Modern Automobile Body “Up From Clay” – The Bodybuilders is a GM Photographic...
All those parking lot shots we run in this carspotting series with the cars so packed in tight you wonder how they get out the ones in the middle? This photo we came across on the University at Texas...
This 1973 AMC Matador for sale on Hemmings.com, a four-door sedan ordered by the government to use as an MP car, probably couldn’t be more basic with its bench seat, column-shifted automatic, lack of...
Image via Google Maps. Old Studebaker dealership buildings tend not to attract the attention of big-city mayors or generate headline news these days. One in Phoenix, however, has proved the exception...
Going back through some old bookmarks, I see we never used these three photos from the Duke University Libraries for our carspotting series. At least two of them we can positively identify the locati...
Chevy Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe rear backlight; image by Terry McGean. It was bound to happen–the factory-backed on-track battles had returned by 1986. The melee for track supremacy that took place l...
Photo from the writer’s collection. After Henry Ford almost singlehandedly created the low-priced automobile category with the Model T, the rest of the industry found itself playing catch-up with mod...
How far back is fair game for carspotting images? The loose answer: Far back enough for the cars not to be on the road now, still recent enough to inspire some nostalgia for the cars depicted within....
No question of provenance with this 1931 Chrysler Imperial CG Custom Eight limousine for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that has remained in one family since new, that received some in-period modificati...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Who says Jam Handy couldn’t produce a straight-forward advertisement for Chevrolet? We can debunk that myth right here: This is an eight-and-change-minute...
Longtime friend of Hemmings Motor News Randy Rundle, owner of Fifth Avenue Antique Auto Parts, has recently released a new technical publication about a common problem all vintage car owners have run...
Don’t know when the roundabout on Brattleboro’s north side – just off the Interstate 91 exit and near the bridge to New Hampshire – was built, but given that this set of photos that we found on Vermo...
1957 Ford Ranchero Custom. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Early Ford Rancheros have inched up in value in the past few years, and current valuation guides put the price of a concours-quality ’57 Ran...
Remember that story about Goldilocks and the three bears? The same seems to happen when one is hunting for a project car: Many are over-restored, and hence, too expensive, while an equal number seem ...