Story and photos by Joe Essid. The last time we talked, I set priorities for the mechanical work on a 1974 Buick Apollo, the same year and model of my first car. For those novices to restoration, I h...
In 1958, Pontiac’s optional “Sportable” transistor AM radio could be slid out from the dash to be taken anywhere. It operated on its own batteries and had its own antenna. When it was returned to the...
Two old postcard photos for today’s carspotting scene, both from the big sky town of Kalispell, both of which we came across on William Bird’s Flickrstream. Above, we see the intersection of Main and...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “Glamour Bird” was on the attack in 1968, as this unusual piece of dealer educational literature shows. Not intended for public ...
As with all the street scenes collected by the Duke University Digital Libraries, these two from Phoenix focus on the outdoor advertising of the time and provide no date or location context. The typi...
While mid-seventies pickups from GM, Ford and Chevrolet are plentiful, survivors from Dodge are less so. Perhaps fewer civilians shopped for Dodge pickups, or perhaps the bulk of production went to t...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. What does it take to fill the late-November streets of Flint, Michigan, with cheering crowds of genuinely happy people? Yes, we said happy, if somewhat ch...
One benefit to leaving cars unrestored and unaltered is that they more clearly tell the stories of the people who previously owned them. Take, for instance, this 1955 Buick Special Estate Wagon for s...
The Dude’s 1973 Gran Torino. Photo via IMCDB.org. While it’s not considered much of a car movie, the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski is one of only a handful of films to inspire fes...
1931 Chevrolet Panel Truck delivers bootlegging baking supplies to a St. Louis, Missouri bakery. Image from the writer’s collection. With prohibition, breweries like Anheuser-Busch had to figure out ...
1946 Jeep CJ-2A. Photos courtesy FCA. Corporal Klinger, the Mud Hens, and Jeep. Even to Ohioans, there are no stronger associations with Toledo than these three, the latter due to the off-road vehicl...
Kinda hard to find a flaw in this 1978 Ford Granada Ghia for sale on Hemmings.com: From the photos it all appears clean and straight, with no evidence of rust, fading, or wear, and the description te...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...
So this 1964 Studebaker GT Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com is gonna need some sweat equity to hit the road again. That’ll probably scare off all but the most interested of buyers, and the necessary rus...
Most folks probably know David Greenless as the man behind The Old Motor, but he’s also an accomplished restorer and caretaker of pre-World War I thoroughbreds, including the 1915 Duesenberg race car...
Part of the capacity crowd from last night’s cruise-in. Photos by Kurt Ernst, David Conwill and Terry McGean. To some, it’s the budding of trees and the blooming of flowers (often accompanied by the ...
Whenever we come across a photo labeled Chicago that doesn’t seem to depict an urban area, we immediately think it’s gotta be on Lake Shore Drive. Today’s unattributed carspotting photo, which we cam...
Pontiac pitched its 1964 Catalina as the brand’s lowest-priced full-size offering, but despite the family-friendly sticker, the Catalina still came with standard features like electric wipers, dual s...
Photo by Michael Cote. A bill introduced in Congress this week promises to roll back current ethanol blending requirements and may even curtail the spread of E15 through the nation’s fuel supply shou...
No gas shortage in these two photos that Terry Koenig’s father took in August of 1958 and that The Old Motor recently published. Rather, the reason for the lines was the exact opposite: The Flying A ...
So why be coy about the hot rodding potential of a car like this 1964 Plymouth Savoy for sale on Hemmings.com? It is a likely candidate for a Hemi or Max Wedge clone (as the seller points out), it’s ...
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In December 2012, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, closed its doors to the public after losing nearly $1.5 million in the pr...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Chevrolet’s lineup was very exciting for 1960, and buyers were paying attention, to the tune of more than 1.6 million cars built that ye...
Two recent photos on Vintage Las Vegas not only show Fremont Street at night – not unusual in itself, given how spectacular Glitter Gulch looked once the sun went down – but show it almost exactly 10...
In an alternate universe, Chevrolet’s air-cooled, rear-engine Corvair might have evolved into a world class sports car that remained in production for five decades. In this universe, though, the Ford...