Unimogs aren’t generally considered as race fodder, but they are nigh-indestructible and as we see from this story on Engine Swap Depot, they’ll go faster with bigger and more powerful Mercedes engin...
Jeff Teague and his AMX/4 rendering. Like any of us, Jeff Teague could have become anything he wanted, but with a father as passionate about cars – particularly older cars and auto design – as legend...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...
Since starting this series in 2014, we’ve received more than a few requests to broaden our horizons and include motorcycles in the $5,000 Challenge. As someone who once counted a bike as his only mot...
Date: circa 1951 Location: Granville Street and 11th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver archives, via Those Old Cars What do you see here?
Images courtesy of the author’s collection. Starting with the 1966 model year and continuing on into the early ’70s, a recurring magazine-ad motif for Ford’s personal-luxury Thunderbird centered on p...
Tucker 1044, at rest in its former Ohio home. Photos courtesy Mark Lieberman. Mark Lieberman knows a thing or two about Tuckers; he’s owned three, two of which have gone on to set record prices in pr...
From the seller’s description: 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass S for sale on Hemmings.com. with 442 and Hurst Olds upgrades. Original 350 cu. in. engine and new 200-4R transmission. Bucket seat interior came...
From the seller’s description: 1937 GMC Open Touring Bus , 6 cylinder, Oldsmobile engine. Seats 15- 20 passengers. Been in storage under cover since 2005. At that time, it had new tires, brake shoes,...
An M4 Sherman tank, displayed on the grounds of the Normandy Tank Museum. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In 2013, military vehicle collector Patrick Nerrant opened the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, Franc...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...
Some people fill their garages with old cars to restore. Joel Baker fills his with 20-foot-tall fiberglass muffler men of multiple configurations, many of which he’s documented as part of his America...
From the seller’s description: There were just 1001 Town & Country convertibles built in 1949 and it is estimated that approximately 130 remain. This numbers matching 1949 Chrysler Town & Country con...
1946 Nash Ambassador. Photo by the author. Charles Nash, by most accounts, got along all right with Charles Durant. He just knew he couldn’t continue to work with the man who’d brought him into the a...
The 1954 model year brought about a number of changes in Chevrolet’s Advance Design light trucks. For instance, GMC first offered the Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic transmission in 1953, but ’54 wa...
Photo courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. Not all youth project cars like the one sponsored by the Crosley Automobile Club end in success, which was why the members of the club, upon the completion of ...
1933 Auburn advertisement, courtesy of OldCarAdvertising.com Certain parts have entered the collective consciousness as quintessential automotive hardware above and beyond their status as original eq...
From the seller’s description: This 1972 Chrysler Town & Country 9-passenger Station Wagon (fondly known as “The White Whale”) is a complete time capsule. I was looking for a perfect, original 70s wa...
Photos courtesy of Airstream, Inc. By far the most iconic travel trailer on American (and international) roads, the Airstream brand has been with us since the company’s first models were built by Wal...