Steve Stanford. Photo courtesy Steve Stanford Designs. The Grand National Roadster Show is still a few weeks off, but the 2016 inductees into its Hall of Fame have already been named. Of the four inc...
While we try to adhere to the under-$5,000 rule whenever possible, sometimes it’s a bit refreshing to see what else is out there in a slightly higher price range. This batch of $5,000 Challenge candi...
Photos by the author. Beyond being cute, the Crosley station wagon was a noteworthy vehicle that was literally decades ahead of its time. While its diminutive size against all the large cars that rul...
We can’t resist coming back to Las Vegas’s Fremont Street – pre-enclosure – time and time again. Thanks to all the neons and the flashy signs that advertised the casinos and other establishments ther...
Looking sharp thanks to a repaint and replicated graphics, this 1975 Pontiac Ventura SJ Sprint hatchback coupe for sale on Hemmings.com still sports its original white split-bench interior as well as...
This 1908 Harley-Davidson bid to $400,000, but failed to meet its reserve. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 25th-annual MidAmerica motorcycle auction featured five bikes that cracked the $100,...
1925 Bugatti Type 35 at Gooding’s 2013 Monterey sale. Photos by author. It’s said that winning a significant lottery jackpot is the surest way to financial, moral and spiritual ruin, but just for onc...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; Studebaker photo by Richard Lentinello While most British car enthusiasts think of the pre- and post-war sports cars when someone menti...
Not long after running the first look at a downtown Milwaukee parking lot at Wisconsin and Sixth, The Old Motor turned up a second shot of the same lot, revealing a second Schlitz billboard looming o...
The burden of owning an original car — for some people, at least — is that they can’t just willy-nilly add or restore items, and repairs have to be extremely deliberate. But stepping back a bit from ...
Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
Photography by the author. More than a dozen years ago, when I was younger and more beautiful and working for another magazine, I spearheaded a couple of new-car comparisons that were real eye-opener...
Finding a Checker cab in unused, low-mileage condition is sorta like coming across an unopened package of those giant multicolor Christmas light bulbs from the Fifties or a still sealed 40-year-old t...
XKC 011, a 1952 Jaguar C-Type. Photos by Matt Howell, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Jaguar’s XK 120 C, commonly referred to as the C-Type, put the racing world on notice when it ...
Frontenac performance equipment; image by the author Until recently, Chevy and Ford battled for supremacy annually, both at the showroom and on race tracks. This decades-long rivalry, in turn, has le...
It might not be a loaded-to-the-gills 4-4-2, but this 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com – which has benefited from some refurbishment, but apparently hasn’t re...
GM really rolled out the red carpet – literally! – in November 1954 in Flint, when it came time to build its 50 millionth car. Fortunately, the company also made sure plenty of film cameras were roll...
Perched near the top of Plymouth’s 1966 model range, just below the VIP, the Fury III was a car that owners could proudly show off to the neighbors. It stands to reason that many were preserved, thou...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
A battery topper, which does just what the name implies, looks cleaner and more correct than the aftermarket battery under it. Photos by the author. Even though we have recently enjoyed record high t...
See? I’m perfectly capable of posting non-wintry street scenes during winter. Just take a look at these two additional photos from the Richfield Historical Society from the Sixties – above, dated 196...
For many of us, the fun part of owning an old car is working on it ourselves – troubleshooting mechanical problems and then getting our hands dirty repairing or maintaining the car. But sometimes it’...
All photos courtesy FCA. Pretty much as we predicted last year, FCA waited until this year to celebrate Jeep’s 75th anniversary, only going so far back as the Willys Quad and MA prototypes of 1941 in...
Robert Carini. Photo courtesy Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. Robert Carini may not have achieved the level of fame realized by his son Wayne, star of Velocity television’s Chasing Classic Cars,...
I promise, today’s carspotting photo won’t kick off another week of snowy street scenes, but I can’t say that I won’t latch on to windows of wintry weather when I see them. So when perusing what we h...