1940 La Salle Series 50 convertible. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. General Motors has been around, in one form or another, since 1908. In its 108-year history, brands and models have come...
Photos courtesy Maria Sokola. It’s tempting to think that if the old cars of Cuba survived the decades until now, they’ll be around forever. They’re timeless, right? They’re a cultural institution, w...
Everybody, it seems, has a story about how cheap cars were in the old days. From gently wrecked Ferraris, now worth millions (or tens of millions) of dollars that sold for the cost of a three-year ol...
Documented from new 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a true, two-owner since new, 49,000 mile Custom Victoria Convertibl...
1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This was a low-mileage, four-owner motorcar that has just completed a two year complete concours restoration on an origi...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...
Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America Museum. Held annually during Meet Week in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the AACA Museum’s “Night at the Museum” gives visitors a chance to s...
Photo via Detroit Free Press ; brochure image via lov2xlr8.no. If success has many fathers, then Colin Neale had many children. As a longtime designer for both Ford and Chrysler and a close associate...
On the right is our Miro-Flex Model 18 Miro-Flare. On the left is an unmarked version. Note the holders for flags positioned between the reflectors. Nobody wants to imagine a breakdown, especially at...
1971 Chevrolet Vega 2300 Hatchback Coupe. Photo courtesy GM Media. When I was 20 years old I was employed as an assembler at the Chevrolet Engine Plant in Tonawanda, New York. I started out working i...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Bellaire Boulevard and Rice Boulevard, Bellaire, Texas Source: City of Bellaire archives, courtesy Bill Starr What do you see here?
Spirit of America package 1974 Chevrolet Impala for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is an extremely low-mileage example, with original paint and interior. Dual exhaust w...
Date: circa 1950s Location: Edmondson Village, Baltimore, Maryland Source: Baltimore County Public Library, via Baltimore Heritage What do you see here?
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
From the seller’s description: We are proud to offer for sale a rare 1966 Lincoln 4 Door Convertible VIN # 6Y86G413847, one of a limited production run of 3180 produced in 1966. We acquired this car ...
1954 De Soto Coronado. Brochure and ad scans from author’s collection. During the boom years of the immediate postwar era, auto manufacturers were doing their best to create ads that touted their new...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
Unrestored 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Sold New to J.A Pellerin of Santa Clara California, Delivery date of 3-11-67. The second owner Ron purchas...
Restoring his 1957 Pontiac Safari for the road probably would have gotten it more use at cruise-ins and other old car gatherings, but Alan Freed had it restored as it was built – as a Hy-Rail, intend...
Field mouse. Photo by Martyn Fletcher. Last week, I decided that the two-year-old cabin air filter in my truck had served out its useful life and was due for replacement. Swapping it out was an easy ...
From the seller’s description: 1960 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible. The car spent much of her life in California; I purchased her from a seller in Maui early in 2014. This is a solid car in very good...