Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Ford’s upscale Lincoln Motor Company is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance, with its well-received Con...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
Porsche 911 Safari! ’59 Dodge Coronet! Subaru SVX! ’75 Chevy Caprice! W123 Mercedes wagon! Photography by the author. The Matchbox “Gathering of Friends,” held each July in Albuquerque, has come and ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor By the late 1970s, Ford’s Mustang was no stranger to controversy. The 1974-1978 Mustang II – while a best-selle...
I took this photo of my black ’57 at the Classic Thunderbird Club International regional meet at Seven Springs around 1970 or so when we drove the Bird from New Rochelle to western Pennsylvania. Bill...
Jessica Hartwig’s typographic map of Detroit, via Detroitography. The inclusion of Woodward Avenue on PBS’ 10 Streets That Changed America was certainly warranted, given its role in the motorization ...
Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...
1958 Plymouth convertible. Still image from Internet Archive video below. In these 1958 Sid Davis productions, Driving Tips Series One and Two, many aspects of driver safety and a few regarding good ...
The lower section of the left-front fender on my 1955 TR2 needs to be replaced, but with six spare left-side front fenders on hand, it will allow that damaged fender to be repaired with authentic Tri...
1946 Paterson Vehicle Company Silk City Diner. Photos courtesy RM Sothebys. On the list of destination spots for a show-and-shine, the local diner has to be in the top-10 (on the East Coast, anyway)....
1968 Plymouth Road Runner. Ad courtesy Lov2XLR8. A casual observer may have said that Mopar had all the muscle cars it needed in 1967, but Chrysler’s market research indicated that simply wasn’t the ...
The Winner’s Circle display at the Simeone. Photo by Jim Donnelly. In June of 2008, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum opened in its current location on Norwich Drive in Southwest Philadelphia....
Photo by englemk. Typically after a devastating storm, we’ll see stories about collector cars lost due to a garage collapse. In the case of a 1949 Ford in Richmond, Virginia, however, the recent stor...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...
Magazine ad courtesy of LOV2XLR8. Introduced for the 1975 model year, Ford’s Granada was initially intended to replace a pair of aging mid-sizers: the Maverick and the Torino. In marketing its newest...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
Photography from the Hemmings archives. The tachometer’s significance beyond simply serving as an add-on accessory to instill a sporty image and enhance dealer profit was manifested in the muscle-car...
We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...
Still image captured from public domain film hosted on the Internet Archive. This educational film employs various teaching aids such as animation, component cutaways, exploded views, working transpa...
Here’s where Mike worked as a teenager. This photo was taken in the early 1960s, but the Humble station hadn’t changed. Mike was the youngest of a group of La Feria citizens who congregated most even...
Photo courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. While Indy 500 and local historians have a good idea in which grave Arthur Chevrolet likely now lies — and know for sure in which grave he doesn’t ...
Pins in the author’s collection. Photo by author. They’re small, colorful, and oh so interesting to look at. Best of all, they take up very little room to be displayed. They’re lapel pins! Automotive...
Remington typewriter. Photo by Matt. The internet isn’t always a friendly place. No matter where you navigate your browser these days, it often comes down to this: people love to argue, infused perha...
Reutter seat production for Porsche, 1961. All images courtesy Recaro. The history of Recaro seats starts in 1963 in the German automotive “capital” Stuttgart in very close range to the iconic brands...