Toronto, 1973
Date: 1973 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Source: Toronto Public Library What do you see here?
Date: 1973 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Source: Toronto Public Library What do you see here?
Convertiblized 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a 1978 Lincoln Town Coupe that was made into a fully servicable power top convertib...
1930 Bugatti Type 46 faux cabriolet. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Accessible to students studying automotive design, the classic-car collection of San Francisco’s Academy of Art University has gen...
The RE Olds Transportation Museum. Image via Google Street View. Lansing, Michigan, is best known outside the automotive world as being the state capital, a designation it received in 1847 on the fee...
1972 Ford Maverick Grabber. Photos by Jeff Koch, unless otherwise noted. On April 17, 1969, Ford introduced a new compact two-door sedan with sleek fastback styling, designed to counter the sales thr...
Coker’s headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photos courtesy of Coker Group. Founded by Harold Coker in 1958, Coker Tire was a pioneer in supplying period-correct tires for the collector-car hobby...
Prewar Bugatti, original artwork by Wallace Wyss. Having had the unique experience of driving my Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing out of a burning building, I can add a little advice on protecting your c...
Single-family 1980 Buick LeSabre for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a one family owned car. It was special ordered and bought new by my brother in 1979 at Braley & Graha...
My parents’ 1937 Nash LaFayette took me on my first vacation. We stayed at a motel—actually, a long string of lakeshore cabins—in 1949. The lake and our cabin smelled of dead fish. Photo by Mark J. M...
From the seller’s description: “They’re only original once” 1953 Mercury Monterey , Unrestored, original, AACA HPOF Senior award. Very low original mileage; 255 cubic inch ‘flathead’ V-8 with three s...
The New York Times reported this month that the current Allard replica scene will soon double with an entry from Sydney Allard’s family, who are none too happy about the existing replicas. * New Zeal...
Streamlined trains and divided highways, but oddly no airplanes, represented state-of-the-art transportation in 1941. If you’ve seen those blue “Eisenhower Interstate System” signs with the General-t...
Restored 1933 Divco for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1933 Fully Restored Divco/Twin Coach Helms Bakery Delivery Van is for sale. From the 1930’s to the 1950’s Helms Baker...
The KiMo Theater in downtown Albuquerque on Route 66. Photo by Karen Blaha. Where Route 66 passes through downtown Albuquerque and takes the name Central Avenue, the neon signs of the tourist-laden r...
Image courtesy FCA. You are a rational and intelligent human being. You are able to make sense of the world around you, solve problems methodically, and pay your taxes every year. However, if you’re ...
Curtis Wright Model 1 (left) and Airstream Silver Cloud (right). Photos courtesy Dal Smilie. Somehow it seems fitting that, though the earliest-known factory-built Airstream featured entirely wooden ...
Unrestored 1955 Plymouth Belvedere four-door for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 4 dr sedan 2 tone with sport tone trim showing only a bit of 63 yr old patina in that some of the...
Some days we all need a little break from reality. So forget your bills, forget your job, forget yourself, and make that day today, because it’s time to drag the waters of my Photochops bookmarks fol...
Image courtesy Google Street View. For decades, the former Phoenix Motor Company building in downtown Phoenix presented a blank face to the world. Windows and doors boarded up and stuccoed-over, it s...
Date: circa 1967 Location: Interstate 75, Atlanta, Georgia Source: J.C. Lee photo, via The Old Motor What do you see here?
1954 Packard convertible. Photos by Nancy Gates, courtesy AACA Museum. In days of yore, gigantic, lumbering beasts roamed the landscape, pausing only to feed their insatiable appetites, or (occasiona...
1957 Willys Pickup (top, image by Jim Donnelly); 1958 Chevrolet Apache 31 (bottom, image by Terry McGean). Editor’s comment: Please note that the This or That column is not a comparison report betwee...
Date: September 1973 Location: Martinez, California Source: AP photo, via NPR What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: This is a 1966 ( Chrysler ) Imperial LeBaron Sedan in beautiful condition. This vehicle has only 7,979 miles and has always been garaged. It has the original black pain...
Still from AACA Library video of 1965 Glidden tour. With about half of the films in the AACA Library’s collection now digitized, the library’s staffers have organized a film series to not only showca...