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...
Czech manufacturer Tatra has always specialized in building innovative, if not eccentric, vehicles. Though never officially offered for sale on these shores, the Tatra T613 is a perfect case in point...
Photo by Matt Litwin. Nobody couldn’t have predicted that the stratospheric success of the 1965 Mustang would lead to direct competition: Everybody suddenly wanted a part of the youth market that Lee...
SS 100. Photos courtesy of Simeone Automotive Museum. In addition to its automobiles, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has an extensive collection of automotive literature, da...
Photos by the author. Italy’s carrozzerias were renowned for crafting beautifully shaped sports car bodies out of hand-formed aluminum, but in England, where the burgeoning sports car and racing spec...
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...
1953 Aston Martin DB3S/5. Photos courtesy Bonhams unless otherwise specified. It was built for Aston Martin owner David Brown (the DB in Aston Martin’s nomenclature), but soon after commandeered by 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...
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News There was a period -say, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s- that Honda’s mainstream cars always seemed to be a bit better tha...
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...
1992 Benetton Ford chassis B191B-06. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1991, Michael Schumacher was at the very start of a Formula 1 career that would later see him capture seven championship titl...
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...
Leo Beebe at Le Mans in 1966. All photos courtesy of Ford Motorsport. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings reader and contributor Frank Comstock, a friend of the late Leo Beebe. “Comin...
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 ...
Dodge celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1964, and its gift to Dart buyers was a newly available 273-cu.in. V-8 that boosted the performance of the division’s compact-size offering. This 1964 Dodge D...
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...
Electric cars at Snug Rock, Yonkers, New York circa 1900. Photo from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, courtesy of Automobile Driving Museum. Electric cars, it seems, are all the rage th...
Used car pricing from a May 1948 Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. Old newspapers have always been a great window into seeing what life was like at a time many of us weren’t even a glint in our father’s ey...
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 ...