From Facebook reader Rich Kohr comes today’s carspotting photo, which depicts the former Rosensteel Museum in Gettysburg, sometime in the 1950s. Also known as the Round Top Museum, it appears the bui...
Introduced in 1940, Buick’s Series 50 Super models featured sleek exterior styling and an interior that provided seating for up to six adults. One range up from the entry-level Series 40 Special mode...
Photo by Vincent Lammin. Other highways came before it. Others stretched farther. Others probably conducted more traffic throughout the country. But no highway gets more recognition or praise than Ro...
1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventiona...
Photo by the author. It is well known that before World War II, Ford Motor Company was never a well-organized corporation, and that in the wake of Edsel Ford’s death in 1943, things spiraled so nearl...
Fortunately for us carspotters, photos of jampacked parking lots – like this one in the collection of photos that Joe Sokola provided us – tended to make for compelling visuals and so attracted photo...
Photo by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. With the recent passage of H.R. 22, also known as the FAST Act, replica car makers now have a clear path forward for building turnkey cars, which means...
In the 1971 documentary A Dash of the Irish , we not only get expert commentary from Paddy Hopkirk on the Circuit of Ireland rally (as he says, thanks to the lack of practice days, “there are more re...
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal sha...
Before the onslaught of RC Cola, Logan’s Main Street had a lot more neon signs, as we can see from this photo from ElectroSpark’s Flickr stream, taken a about a block or two east and a quarter-centur...
Photos courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Donald Gilmore didn’t even care much for old cars before he retired, but his wife, Genevieve, figured he needed something, anything, to keep him busy after a long ...
Longtime reader Stephane Dumas suggested we take a look at the City of Toronto’s archives for a series of photos that Harvey Naylor took of Queen Street during the early 1980s, and indeed, plenty of ...
Debuting in January of 1928, Chevrolet’s National Model AB introduced new features like four-wheel brakes, a thermostat, indirect instrument lighting and Alemite fittings to make chassis lubrication ...
1947 Chrysler Town and Country. Photo by David LaChance. Appropriately, and unlike pretty much every other car, one of the most celebrated nameplates in Chrysler’s history, the Town and Country, orig...
All photos are frame grabs from videos below. A trio of Ford commercials: Together, they offer a little something for everyone. Two-Ford Freedom: “Why be stuck with one expensive car, when you can en...
Going out on a limb here with the location of these three photos. The source of the photos, one of our own classified ads for the Volvo-based special seen below, doesn’t offer the location, but there...
1939 Cadillac Sixteen seven-passenger sedan. Photos courtesy Russo and Steele. Rick Nuckolls didn’t visit McPherson College with the intent of buying an unrestored and mostly disassembled 1939 Cadill...
Photo by David Zaitz/Courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the outside of the recently revamped Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; and, if not, we’ve...
A few weeks back on Hemmings Radio, we kicked around the topic of what makes a car collectible. While rarity comes into play, perhaps the biggest single factor is relevance, which explains why once-c...
As we can see from the modern-day Street View of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and 23rd Street in Los Angeles, where this group of photos was taken in February 1956 (from the USC Digital L...
Touring, the Great Automobile Card Game. Image by the author. By definition, the word touring means to take part in a tour. When the buggy went horseless, it also took on the definition of a body sty...
Ford GP-001, the world’s oldest known jeep prototype. Photo courtesy Veterans Memorial Museum. Of the three prototypes that automakers submitted for the U.S. Army’s new lightweight scout car in the e...
A lot of those Hartford photos Joe Sokola supplied us with are stamped with the Kula Studios mark, and, indeed, plenty of them include the various Kula Studios offices, as we see with these two photo...
The gauges are lit by their own bulbs, and the rear sail panel-mounted interior courtesy lamps were employed so that you could actually see the instrument panel details that aren’t normally lit. The ...