Images courtesy Old Car Manual Project. The first-generation Chevrolet inline six has long lived in the shadow of the Ford flathead V-8 – so much so that many don’t realize that it’s a different crea...
Admittedly, we only know for sure that the above photo comes from Scottsdale, specifically Fifth Avenue, and we only know for sure that the below photo dates to the 1960s, but both, which we came acr...
Photo by 77krc. A pilot cash-for-clunkers-style program that the state of California started in 2014 may soon expand statewide and mandate a minimum number of old cars to scrap in exchange for buying...
Photo courtesy Antique American Independent Automobile Association. While last year’s Military Vehicle Preservation Association Bankhead Highway Convoy perhaps set precedents for covering every possi...
Dawn breaks over Turn 12 at PIR and down the main straight. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senat...
This 1951 Muntz Jet for sale on Hemmings.com definitely won’t make for an easy restoration – after all, there’s no manual for restoring a limited-production car like this that received an unorthodox ...
1961 Buick Invicta instrument panel; image by the author. Buick’s full-size lineup for 1961 had been dramatically restyled–a crisp, sleek look, thanks to the elimination of what they called the Delta...
Crazy, right? Mercury’s Wrist-Twist steering couldn’t have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac’s Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steeri...
Sometimes, the right weekend car isn’t a car at all. Somewhere between restored and resto-modded, this driver-quality 1952 Ford F1 pickup, for sale on Hemmings.com, sports a considerable amount of wo...
According to the Showvans blog, the recent Cleveland Autorama’s show-within-a-show dedicated to custom vans was the largest indoor van show in more than 30 years. Also shows how far custom vanning ha...
Man, ever since the Romulans started showing up, these carspotting photos started to get real difficult. Let’s press on regardless, though, with a pair of parking lot shots, above from photographer T...
It’s not perfect, and it’s the opposite of flashy, but this base 1977 Chevrolet Nova four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com – equipped with a six-cylinder engine, automatic transmission, bench seat...
From Alden Jewell comes perhaps the most jam-packed carspotting image we’ve had in a while, one sure to keep y’all busy for days to come, and one that we’re pretty sure we haven’t previously run. The...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...
To some, the appeal of the collector car hobby is bringing a tired car, perhaps just a few skinned knuckles away from being sold for scrap, back from the brink. To others, the allure lies in the driv...
In an effort to get us “off the Hartford train,” reader Greg Beaulieu directed us toward Nova Scotia’s online photo archives, particularly the photos that depict downtown Barrington Street in the ear...
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainte...
There’s some downtown revitalization planning going on here in Bennington lately, which probably doesn’t mean much to 99 percent of you, but nevertheless benefits 100 percent of you via these carspot...
Small parts and hardware organizers like these can be purchased from various sources. Photos by author. If you’ve read my blogs over the past few years, you know that some of them deal with my organi...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
Note what you don’t see on this 1937 Cord 812 for sale on Hemmings.com: badges, cloissones, and other decoration from years and years of participating in shows and scooping up awards. That’s because ...
Though this 1966 Pontiac Grand Prix for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t originally come with a four-speed, a) it’s what the owner wanted, b) it’s probably what a good chunk of potential buyers would like...
Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside...
From the various reviews online, the 1967 flick “Hot Rods to Hell” probably isn’t worth tracking down for the cinematic value, but it does at least offer some decent carspotting, as we see from the a...