Photos courtesy Checker Cab Club. Though it’s only been around for a little more than a year, the Checker Cab Club recently scored a couple troves of rather significant documentation on the Kalamazoo...
Photos courtesy George Ormrod. I once had a 1949 Plymouth club coupe that was used in the Troma Classic feature film Space Zombie Bingo. This is a straight to DVD film I directed in my younger days. ...
Date: August 1968 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
1965 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This 4-4-2 is family owned and garaged since new, purchased by my Dad on March 8, 1965. Unabused, never wrecked or damaged, ...
Photo by the author. Scandinavian attitudes toward automotive preservation. Preserving the skills necessary for auto restoration. How scrappage programs have influenced old car collectability. The sl...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Can your camera do this? Send it to college. Film shorts along the lines of this one doubtless led to later mandatory disclaimers such as, “No persons, an...
Date: circa late 1960s Location: unknown Source: found photo via sundogrr on Flickr What do you see here?
1932 Nash Eight Series 990 ambulance by Miller. From the seller’s description: This Nash epitomized classic-era elegance with its stained glass quarter windows and hickory spoke artillery wheels. Ori...
Photos by Jeff Koch and courtesy of Lincoln. Lincoln’s Mark III was born of necessity to do battle in the lucrative personal luxury market against the Buick Riviera, Oldsmobile Toronado, Cadillac Eld...
Date: circa 1971 Location: East Second Street, Lusk, Wyoming Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: This 1954 Kaiser Darrin is number 399 out of 435, frame up restoration completed in 2015. Matching serial numbers on original engine, frame and body. There have only be...
When it comes to cars and driving, each of us dream differently. For some, bliss is a winding mountain road and an agile sports car, while for others it’s a plush, family-sized station wagon and a st...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
From the seller’s description: 1966 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible Part of a private collection. Finished in Cameo Ivory with red interior. Only two owners from new with known ownership history from ...
Date: August 1968 Location: Superior Avenue, Crystal Falls, Michigan Source: found photo via Mark Susina on Flickr What do you see here?
1963 Chevrolet Corvette. Photo courtesy Glenn Hersh. I had given my 1962 Chevrolet Impala convertible to my brother when I left for overseas. What a sweet ride that was; and I had proven that 283-cu....
Date: circa 1960s Location: Bagnell Dam Boulevard, Lake Ozark, Missouri Source: ThemThenThere on Tumblr What do you see here?
Photos courtesy GM Heritage Center. We always get amped when collections display historic race cars, even if they’re necessarily re-creations. That’s frequently the case because too many early race c...
Photos by Casey Maxon, Historic Vehicle Association. As primed as most police cars are for lengthy sustained service, with special heavy-duty options and equipment installed at the factory, they stil...
Date: circa 1971 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Source: found photo via myBelAir62 What do you see here?
1941 Chrysler Windsor Town and Country barreback for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The example on offer here, chassis number 7700759 is an exceedingly rare nine-passenger varia...
Saturday night with a Buick – volt meter at the ready. First the good news: Headway has been made with the renewed Garage Night effort Associate Editor David Conwill and I initiated last week. This p...
Date: spring 1964 Location: Luigi Chinetti Motors, 780 Eleventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York City Source: Dave Friedman via The Henry Ford on Flickr What do you see here? Editor’s Note: For the Ferrar...
Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...
From the seller’s description: This is a 2-door 1953 Ford Crestline Victoria in excellent condition inside and out with less than 6,000 miles on a restoration. Ford introduced the Crestline as the to...