Because I am cruel, I’m not bothering to wait until wintertime to run this carspotting photo from the Baltimore Sun ‘s Retro Baltimore Tumblog. According to the caption, it was taken in January of 19...
The United States Postal Service has a thing for old cars. After honoring hot rods and muscle cars with a series of Forever stamps (not to mention domestic cars of the 1950s with a variety of first-c...
From the Queensland State Archives on Facebook comes today’s carspotting photo depicting what was then the Pacific Highway in Surfers Paradise. Today, it’s the Gold Coast Highway that runs through th...
For 1966, the Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 boasted a “Fresh new look. Fashionable Interior. Rollicking Rocket action.” We’re not sure that last item was a selling point for suburban families shopping a sens...
Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. Until he saw it stripped to the chassis with his own eyes, George Schuster simply wouldn’t take anybody’s word that this old touring car was the one and the...
Photo by Christopher Najewicz. For some, buying a collector car is the easy part, but finding a place to keep it is the real challenge. For others in need of income and blessed with too much garage s...
Photo courtesy Academy of Art University. To teach old car appreciation to the next generation, basically. We’ve previously mentioned the fact that the San Francisco-based Academy of Art University r...
Aside from the wide whites and chrome wheels, this 1936 Ford Model 68 five-window coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, could pass for a carefully preserved stock example. Dig a little deeper, however, an...
As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
A pair of early Jeeps from Omix-ADA’s collection. Photo courtesy Omix-ADA. In 1992 Al Azadi founded Omix-ADA as a Jeep specialty parts vendor in a small rented warehouse. Today, the Suwanee, Georgia ...
We love it when we get carspotting submissions from our readers, and we really love it when our readers send us an entire series of carspotting photos because we can stretch that submission out over ...
It’s hard to find a two-owner car from five years ago, let alone one from before World War II, but that’s exactly how many owners this 1939 Lincoln Zephyr for sale on Hemmings.com has had. The curren...
Photo by the author. If the California state legislature’s various attempts to make laws concerning older cars this year are to be considered as a whole, then the cutoff for collector cars exempt fro...
Participants in the garb of 1916-’22 gather at the Vista House in Crown Point, Oregon. Photos by Clayton Paddison Brass Era and Vintage Era cars along with a biplane and crowds of people in period dr...
Photos by the author. Ever since the 1950s when my father bought us a Lionel train set I’ve been hooked on toy trains. I still have that Texas Special F3, complete with scratches from running over hu...
We probably should’ve run these closer to this year’s 100th running of the Indy 500, but today’s close enough. From Jim and Chester’s Garage come these two photos of a parking lot at the 1965 Indiana...
1931 Ford Model AA tanker. Photography by author. Ford’s handsome little Model A was one of the most successful and popular automobiles of all time. It had the right look, was the perfect size, and p...
Over on our Facebook page, reader Larry Gaddis sent along today’s carspotting photo depicting Sherwood Plaza in Gainesville, Georgia. Larry initially thought perhaps the photo could date to the Seven...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. It’s a Jam Handy film, so you know the first few minutes are just a setup — but we do so enjoy their creative spins on more mundane subject matters. So ma...
Jim and Chester’s posted this LA bank parking lot photo recently, and in the search for more info, we found it among a group of photos of the same bank – the Cathay Bank at 777 North Broadway – on th...
Chrysler pitched its 1956 New Yorker models as “The perfect combination of style and beauty, and a performance that is as exclusively Chrysler as is the new PowerStyle design.” That performance came ...
Parnelli Jones driving the Marmon Wasp in 2011. Photo by Jim Donnelly. When one of the Marmon Wasp’s tires blew on the brick surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 90 miles per hour, Ray Harro...
At first glance it might look like a Cuban special, but this 1954 Chevrolet for sale on Hemmings.com is actually a veteran of Le Carrera Panamericana, though the ad doesn’t mention its record in the ...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to ente...
Harley Earl with Firebirds I, II, and III. Photo courtesy GM. With almost 270 men and women among its ranks, the Automotive Hall of Fame has already recognized some of the automotive industries most ...