1934 Ford Model 40 DeLuxe roadster. Photos courtesy Auctions America. When it comes to vehicles selling in an auction’s top-10, a Ford Model 40 generally isn’t the first model that comes to mind. Whi...
The model-building work of brothers Cliff and Larry Read continues to astound. Courtesy Gene Herman, we’ve received a few more writeups on how the brothers take inexpensive scale models and turn them...
Reader and contributor Don Homuth recently sent us a link to an Oregonian article on old grocery stores in the Portland area, and the three best carspotting images from the article all happen to date...
Photo by John Penrice. At its peak, Studebaker operated out of more than a hundred buildings scattered across South Bend, each dedicated to a particular auto manufacturing need. Renovating every one ...
There were five hand-built Scout prototypes, all completed early in 1960. Each had a prototype number stenciled on the windshields and on the body. Four numbers have been verified in period images, E...
Photography by author. Over the years, you’ve likely put a diligent effort into making your vintage vehicle look its best. If you’re sharing your pride and joy with someone via photos, keep in mind, ...
Unlike most of the Hartford photos in the collection supplied to us by Joe Sokola, today’s four come with a date – April of 1968 – and we can fairly easily determine the location as Bushnell Park (mu...
A few of the American cars on display at the soon-to-be-opened Route 66 Car Museum. Photos courtesy of Springfield Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, unless otherwise noted. Like many collectors, Guy M...
It’s shockingly easy for a once-major road to go forgotten, as we see from a Los Angeles Times article this week about California’s Ridge Route Road, supplanted by Highway 99 and later Interstate 5 a...
Image courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. The picture tells a thousand words. Dad grins knowingly as his India Ivory over Matador Red Bel Air Sport Sedan pulls the steep grade. His wife and daughter...
Based entirely on the license plates and the campaign posters for Gabriel Piemonte, we can say with certainty that these two photos which we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital Colle...
Sure, any new RV is likely capable enough of making a cross-country trip this summer without any issues. But apparently so can this 1972 Ford Econoline E200 Sportsmobile for sale on Hemmings.com, whi...
Before there was a Hemmings Motor News at 222 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont, there was a Sibley Machine Shop. Today, the Sibley Shop houses Hemmings own automotive museum, which also contains a ...
Think back, back to the summer days of 2014, when we first ran a couple Vermont Landscape Change photos from Burlington’s North Avenue, showing an old dealership and a car-choked suburban-ish street....
Lincoln’s Continental disappeared from the market following the 1948 model year, and wouldn’t make another appearance until 1956, when Continental reemerged as a stand-alone marque. For those seeking...
One good thing about the collector car hobby is this: Somewhere, there’s a car that appeals to everyone with a passion for four wheels. Shopping at an entry-level price point typically limits the sel...
1954 Mercury Sun Valley, from factory sales literature. During the dream-car days of the 1950s, it seemed as if anything could have found its way onto the car of the future. Oftentimes, some subtle v...
Two shots of California that bookend the Eighties today. Above, from the Shorpy Fan Tumblog, a circa 1981 look north along Hyde Street in San Francisco with Alcatraz in the background, an iconic cabl...
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try...
The collection of Hartford photos that Joe Sokola provided us included a few from New York City, and given the lack of additional context, we have to assume that our regular Hartford photographer too...
For 1965, Pontiac’s Grand Prix arrived looking bigger and bolder, with its “venturi” shaped body riding on an expanded 121-inch wheelbase. The standard “premium gas” engine under the GP’s hood was th...
Photos by author. If you’re into antique cars, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to tell one car from another, especially if it was produced prior to the 1980s, or even the mid-1970s. Buick had...
When shopping for a used vehicle, there’s no such thing as having too much information about its past. After reading the seller’s narrative of this 1991 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado, for sale on Hemm...
While researching the origin of the postcard photo that Jim and Chester’s Garage posted above (Newfound Gap right on the Tennessee-North Carolina border just off Route 441 ), we came across plenty mo...
Correct, this 1961 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country for sale on Hemmings.com is far from stock, though it’s not your typical hot rod. To begin with, the builder selected a blend of Mopar parts fr...