Cocoa Beach, Florida, 1962
Date: February 1962 Location: North Atlantic Avenue, Cocoa Beach, Florida Source: Thomas O’Halloran photo, via Library of Congress What do you see here?
Date: February 1962 Location: North Atlantic Avenue, Cocoa Beach, Florida Source: Thomas O’Halloran photo, via Library of Congress What do you see here?
Unrestored right-hand-drive 128-mile 1958 Studebaker Champion for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Possibly the most original Studebaker and one of the most original classic cars ...
Date: May 1970 Location: East State Street, Columbus, Ohio Source: via PhotOhio.org What do you see here?
Restored and lightly customized 1950 Hudson Pacemaker convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: 5,600 miles on frame-off restoration of solid, rust-free 1950 Hudson Pacemaker convertaible ...
1939 Mercury Town Sedan (top; image by the author); 1941 Studebaker Commander Sedan Coupe (bottom; image by Jim Donnelly). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles,...
Date: circa 1960s Location: San Francisco, California Source: via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
Date: 1964 Location: Dartmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts Source: City of Boston archives What do you see here?
Date: 1972 Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Source: Carolina Power and Light Company photos, courtesy North Carolina Digital Collections What do you see here?
Restored 112-inch wheelbase 1939 Ford platform/stake truck for sale. From the seller’s description: Original rust free California truck. Meticulous frame-off restoration. Model 91-C 85 HP Flathead V8...
We’ve already taken a brief look at Ionia Manufacturing, the station wagon body supplier based in Ionia, Michigan, for the Mitchell Car Museum liquidation, but this video from Vantage Point Visual pr...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
From the seller’s description: For sale is 1958 Buick Super 8 Riviera Sport Coupe with 90,000 original miles. This car is in excellent physical condition as well as great driving condition. With it’s...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Photo courtesy FCA. Five years after closing the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Chrysler’s parent company has decided to repurpose the former home of Dodge Viper production into an exhibit space for the ...
Date: May 1967 Location: Interstate 20, Longview, Texas Source: TexasFreeway.com What do you see here?
1914 FWD Model B, the museum’s oldest truck. Photos courtesy BC Vintage Truck Museum. In April 2017, the BC Vintage Truck Museum in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, received a Canadian government gr...
Date: circa 1950s Location: Grand Circus parking garage, Detroit, Michigan Source: Virtual Motor City collection What do you see here?
Think Tesla was the first to build a heavy-duty electric truck? The Commercial Truck Company beat them by over a century. From the seller’s description: 1912 Commercial Truck Company Model A 10 Stand...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
Date: 1973 Location: W 10th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio Source: Ohio State University libraries What do you see here?
Photo by J.C. Burns. While ethanol advocates claim that a pair of recently introduced bills aimed at reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard will dismantle the program responsible for countrywide distr...
The idea was to gather in one book, as many as possible of the very unusual, the best preserved and the most representative vehicles that survive in India today. Vehicles that encapsulate the very es...
It’s been an odd winter at Hemmings Vermont headquarters. After suffering through a deep freeze in January, it looked like winter was coming to an end ahead of schedule in February – and then came Ma...
Date: December 1971 Location: Pioneer Square, Portland, Oregon Source: City of Portland What do you see here?
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. For several years it toured the country claiming a Guinness world record for “world’s most expensive automobile,” and it very well may have been, g...