Like a strong foundation for a building, you need a solid base of knowledge to understand whatever it is that interests you. For us automotive enthusiasts it’s equally important to understand how all...
Last grouping of photos of the unnamed Florida university sent to us by Dean Luchaco. The first appears to be the counterpart parking lot to the one in yesterday’s photos, while the two below appear ...
From the seller’s description: For sale 1968 FORD LTD BROUGHAM, two-door hard top that is all original. The engine is a 390 ci, 270 horsepower with a two-barrel carb, C-6 automatic transmission. It h...
What makes a car rare? In some cases, it’s low production numbers, while in other cases, it may be the number of survivors remaining intact. While none of the cars below qualify as low production (wi...
Greg Lynn’s “Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation.” Image via Greg Lynn FORM. While a Peruvian developer cleans up the former Packard plant in Detroit and readies it for its next iterati...
Photos courtesy Terry Ernest. Long time Wills Sainte Claire Museum member Bill Mason’s son, Rick, emailed me earlier this year and asked if I could attend and represent the Wills Museum at his father...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Oldsmobile’s 1988 model year lineup showcased this GM division’s past and future, all sharing space on dealership lots. The veteran rear...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. What do a cartoon-turned-real-life locomotive, a balding man, cue ball, squirrel, white-tail deer, moose, bullet, baseball, bowling ball and what appears ...
Locations for the previous two West Hartford posts based on photos from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us were fairly simple to determine based on buildings in the photos that remain standing to...
A common complaint of those looking to get into the collector car hobby is the high cost of entry. Cars that were largely overlooked a decade or so back are, in some cases, now priced beyond the mean...
Feature Article from the June, 2013 Hemmings Classic Car . Photography by Jeff Koch. It was hard to escape the gravitational pull of Ford’s Mustang in the mid-1960s. This youthful and exciting car wa...
Most American car enthusiasts do a double take at the sight of a Meteor: It’s definitely a Ford, just not one that was ever sold in the U.S. Meteors were offered in Canada from 1949 until 1976 and ba...
Sure, it’s a bit sensational to show Jay Leno in the famed Hemi Under Glass wheelstander as it takes a tumble for Jay’s show, but it’s also a part of the car’s history now, something to be noted when...
From the seller’s description: 1968 Chevrolet Impala 9 passenger station wagon. Special order-396 engine, turbo hydra-matic transmission; all-original except new 4-barrel carb; 91,368 highway miles; ...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can. ...
Richard Douglas with sons Lloyd (L), Asa (C) and Zeb (R). Photos by author. Richard Douglas is a big fan of our $5,000 Challenge series, as it drives home the message that one doesn’t need to be weal...
Here we thought we’d sufficiently scoured the Internet for traffic jam photos of yesteryear, but of course the Los Angeles area has an endless supply of traffic jams, so there’s still plenty more pho...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. With a sleep-inducing introduction awkwardly read from cue cards by Murray, then-president of the American Road Builders’ Association, we wonder if the Ja...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Ford secured the Thunderbird’s future for decades to come when it debuted the second generation in 1958. This small, six-panel fold-out ...
According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we’re in Ferndale – specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward – sometime during the Fifties. And if we che...
Images via MotorCities National Heritage Area, Walter P. Reuther Library. Plans for what will be Detroit’s newest park call for plenty of trees and gardens, walkways and reflection pools, even a kaya...
Photos by the author What could be more apt than criss-crossing the country in a motor home from the same company that sent hundreds of Conestoga wagons down the Oregon Trail? Believe it or not, this...
Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before – several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change pro...