Engesa EE-9 Cascavel Mark V. Photo courtesy the Bovington Tank Museum. Collecting tanks and other military vehicles in Europe may soon become a pastime of the past, thanks to a proposed set of Europe...
These days, the concept of a full-size convertible from a domestic big-three automaker is as foreign as building a car with an estimated fuel economy of 8.1 MPG. In the early 1970s, however, five of ...
At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...
The photo above, which came from the Culture Ride Tumblog, might look a little strange, but it’s not the result of any sort of forced perspective or other camera tricks. Instead, the Beetle on the ri...
For many in the classic car hobby, their first vehicle came as a hand-me-down from a relative, or was purchased from an estate sale. Both represent an affordable way to break into the hobby, as long ...
The most commonly circulated Publix grocery store photos circulating on the Internet show its art deco-ish facades and many-colored Fifties cars in the parking lot, something like this Sarasota shot ...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. What if Carroll Shelby had the ear not of Henry Ford II but of his father, Edsel Ford? And what if sports cars became a phenomenon in the United States not afte...
One more from Tom Simpson’s Disneyland opening series on Flickr – we considered combining it with yesterday’s shot from the lot, but considering the volume of cars here, it almost seemed like too muc...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of...
1965 Buick Riviera “Clamshell” headlamps doors closed and open; images by Jeff Koch Simply put, the 1965 model year is the quintessential Riviera among collectors and enthusiasts alike. Much has been...
Plenty of places have called themselves a Disneyland for car guys, but apparently the real Disneyland for car guys was at Disneyland itself way back on its grand opening in 1955 – that is, right outs...
Amazing how a series of windows can change the whole character of a vehicle. Take, for instance, this 1962 Ford Falcon E11 Station Bus for sale on Hemmings.com, technically a Falcon and not an Econol...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well t...
The Ford Thunderbird began life in 1953 as a direct response to Chevrolet’s recently unveiled Corvette prototype. Calling in some major players in the design field, the Thunderbird rapidly developed ...
True, we don’t do a lot of new car dealership photos in the carspotting series – not enough variety to keep the troops entertained – but used car dealerships are fair game, especially when they’re as...
The Cord 810/812 was certainly one of the most influential designs, both indirectly and directly, as we see from the Oldsmobile Toronado, the SAMCO-Cord, and this 1987 Amaretta Custom Coupe for sale ...
Of all the Hartford photos in the collection Joe Sokola supplied us, we only found these three from the Forties. Above, the theater marquee shows two films released in July and September of 1945, and...
True, this 1928 Ford Model A party truck for sale on Hemmings.com is less collector car than it is a fun and innovative business idea (and, given the timespan of Prohibition, rather anachronistic), b...
One of the unlikeliest stories we’ve seen on Japanese Nostalgic Car as of late was their look back at that hazily remembered period of time in the late 1970s when Japanese cars suddenly became fair g...
Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Yarr, matey! The deck’s been swabbed, the canvas a-been hoisted, and while others like her now be in Davey Jones’s locker or still at sea, the H.M.S. Truckie sails on, co...
Parade, maybe? Whatever captivated the attention of the folks in the background of this photo, which we found on Ross Dunn’s Flickrstream, it didn’t work so well on the photographer, who managed to t...
In 1959, Oldsmobile sold 194,102 examples of its newly restyled “Linear Look” Dynamic 88, but only 11,298 of these were the Fiesta station wagon, making it the second least common body style. Today, ...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. When the founders of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum moved into the headquarters of the company that built the cars they intended...