Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For many a sports and racing car builder in the Fifties, Frank Kurtis’ “off-the-shelf” chassis had little equal. It provided good handling, room for bigger engines, and ...
Still from “ Mad Max: Fury Road.” Yes, everything’s upended these days. For example, though the caption above says that’s a picture from Mad Max: Fury Road, it’s actually me and the boys scouring Ben...
Date: February 1978 Location: University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Source: via UConn Library Archives and Special Collections What do you see here?
Marreau brothers 1981 Renault R20 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: With great pride, we offer one of the pioneering cars of the famous rally raid Paris-Dakar : the legendary R...
Photos courtesy Marty Martino. The Lincoln Futura, as Bill Schmidt envisioned it and as Ghia originally built it, is no more, nor has it been since George Barris and his crew built the Batmobile out ...
To borrow a line from the Seinfeld episode about the Kenny Roger’s Roasters rotisserie chicken, it’s the wood that makes it good. Check out this 1989 Jeep Grand Wagoneer for sale on Hemmings.com. Fro...
Image via OldCarBrochures. Introduction by unknown speaker: I would like to introduce our speaker tonight, Vice President of General Motors Corporations and Director of Engineering Staff, Mr. Frank W...
It’s a 1966 Morgan Plus 4 for sale on Hemmings, fresh from a restoration. From the seller’s description: 1st in class WINNER at the annual gathering of Morgan’s at MogWest in Cambria, CA in July, 201...
General Motors in the 1950s was on top of the world. It sold almost half the cars delivered in the U.S. during that decade. It offered models for nearly every economic stratum, and at the top of that...
George Walker operating the LaTosca radio-control car. Ford Media photos. Employers! Worried that your employees newly assigned to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic are just goofing off,...
Street Coupe edition 1980 GMC Sierra Grande for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very rare truck have only seen one other survivor 4WD, 350 engine, dual exhaust with cherry bomb g...
If you get our weekly Muscle Machines newsletter, you’ll notice that, this week, we’ve been inspired by early hotrodding. After all, it’s fair to say that the post-war hotrodders set the table for th...
One of our favorite micro-movements within the first generation of the Muscle Car era is the Name thing. You’ve seen great old photos of this trend: some killer Mopar wing car or Camaro or Mustang or...
Dates: 1973 (above), circa 1976 or 1977 (below) Location: UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest, San Diego, California Source: via UC San Diego Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photo by Michael Milne. While it would appear that Ralph Nader and the Corvair community have mended fences over the last several years – he appeared on stage at his Automotive Hall of Fame induction...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
All images from Hemmings Classifieds listings. It’s either the coming of spring in New England or the mounting stir-craziness we’re feeling due to social distancing that has the Hemmings staff swappi...
Factory photos courtesy of General Motors. The Grand Prix entered the personal/luxury/performance car market for 1962 and the 1966 model continued to deliver contemporary styling, powerful and smooth...
All photos by the author To the casual observer this pile of rusted metal is just that – a pile of rusted, crumpled, useless metal. But it’s more than that. Believe it or not, it’s the body of a 1935...
Documented 351-powered 1975 Ford Granada for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Indoor storage 25 years in Central Florida. Factory: 351W, auto, p/s, p/w, pdb, Bucket seats and floo...
Eric Szabo had a lot going for him, according to the few English-language accounts we’ve been able to find of his career. Moscow School of Industrial Art graduate; designer for ZIS/ZIL and NAMI; depu...
An actual commercial vehicle, not a tribute. It’s a 1949 GMC FC101 Panel Truck for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: GMC 1949 Model FC-101 Half Ton Panel Truck. A true survivor wit...
Images courtesy of the publisher Niki Lauda wasn’t supposed to be a racing driver. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the assumption was that Lauda would complete his formal education, then join th...