The brightwork was straight and still shiny. Terry noticed, among other things, how good the grille inserts looked, since they usually don’t wear too well. Photos by author. It’s always enjoyable to ...
All original 1949 Packard Eight club sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This has 12,000 actual miles. 3 owners from new. This is one of the best preserved cars, from this ...
Photo by OZinOH. Ol’ Henry’s name remains in that of the museum he founded, but now he shares it with a few more words, as museum officials revealed last week. The decision to rename the Henry Ford M...
From the seller’s description: 1965 Buick Skylark, 2 door automatic. Garaged, covered and well maintained. No rust and never was. With approximately 65,438 miles, it has been driven an average of 1,2...
The baby Bel air by Fiat, complete with nice two toning, the ’54 1900 A Granluce Text and photos by Matteo Giacon, except where noted. Since the early days of the 20th century, idea-sharing between t...
Most art cars depend on plastic toys glued to their exterior surfaces to make a statement. Bruce Tomb’s Maria del Camino goes a little deeper, using a 1959 El Camino riddled with holes, mounted to ta...
1963 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 (top); 1964 Dodge 880 Custom (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables ...
Unrestored 1969 Lincoln Mark III and 1966 single-axle travel trailer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car was bought new on October 23rd 1968 at Paul A Ziegler Lincoln Me...
Photography by author. While rummaging through booth after booth of overpriced objects at one of my favorite antique malls a few weeks ago, I discovered a sale – a group of 1950s and 1960s Popular Me...
Photos provided by Real Deal Steel. When even folks outside of the Rust Belt discover a lack of project-level examples of a particular car without terminal rust, that typically means the market’s rip...
1951 Chrysler Saratoga magazine ad. Period advertising courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. For those of you who have never owned a 1951-’52 Chrysler Saratoga, you can’t imagine what great cars those really were...
1963 Ford Thunderbird for sale. From the seller’s description: Are you looking for what is likely the best 1963 T-Bird in existence? This is a multiple award-winning and rust free Arizona car that ha...
All original 1985 Chevrolet Caprice Classic for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: It was my uncles car who recently passed away. He purchased the car brand new and only has 72k ori...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. A year after buying my 1974 Buick, and half a year after getting it back on the road, the old Apollo wears not 50, but three shades of gray primer and still sports an i...
Refurbished 1961 Chrysler New Yorker hardtop station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is without question, one of the nicest wagons on the planet. Several factors d...
Photos by author. Today’s auto manufacturers limit color choices to mainly boring-looking silvers and grays, along with equally uninspiring dark blues, black and white, but back in the 1950s new car ...