Ford’s 1990 Taurus SHO. Photo courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Recently, Ford announced it was turning its back on automobiles in North America to focus on trucks, crossovers, and SUVs. The Mustang so...
Freshly restored and show-ready 1985 Citroen 2CV Special for sale. From the seller’s description: 2CV Spécial in Bleu Azurite. The restoration of this superb late model 2CV was just completed by Burt...
Images courtesy of Bilweb Auctions We were alerted to a most impressive collection coming up to auction by our friends at Klassiker magazine. Bilweb Auctions -the company that hosted the record-setti...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. In its heyday of the 1960s, Volkswagen’s advertising was famously–and cleverly–self-deprecating, the brilliant...
Magazine ad courtesy of LOV2XLR8. Introduced for the 1975 model year, Ford’s Granada was initially intended to replace a pair of aging mid-sizers: the Maverick and the Torino. In marketing its newest...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
Mildly hot-rodded 1938 Ford De Luxe convertible , powered by a ’49 Mercury flathead V-8. From the seller’s description: Only 2743 four door Ford convertibles made in 1938. This car has a 1949 Mercury...
Old Faithful , a 1924 Ford Model T touring car from Georgia, was featured in the December 1959 issue of Hemmings Motor News . What happened to her? While reviewing prices for brass cars for the next ...
Images courtesy Volkswagen USA. It isn’t everyday that an automaker will straight-up compare one of its classic cars to a new model, even making that older example available to the media to drive — n...
From the seller’s description: 1943 Volkswagen Schwimmwagen for sale. This vehicle was manufactured by the German Army during World War 2 where around 15,000 examples were made. Today most of them ha...
Images are courtesy of Audi Tradition, print ad courtesy Production Cars.com. With the hurt that Audi is putting on Mercedes-Benz sales in today’s luxury car market, one has to wonder if any Mercedes...
1955 Lincoln Capri Coupe (top image by Richard Lentinello); 1955 Packard Clipper Custom Sedan (bottom image by the author). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles...
1970 Buick Electra 225 convertible (top; image by the author); 1970 Chrysler 300 convertible (bottom; image by Richard Lentinello). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two ...
Photo by the author. It was known that Mazda North America would not be renewing its 18-year naming rights sponsorship with California’s world-famous Laguna Seca racetrack, upon the completion of tha...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...
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...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
Still image from video below. In this vintage television ad, two young boys wearing space helmets experience from the backseat of their parents’ new Ninety-Eight what the redesigned ’59 Oldsmobile ha...
Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Own old cars, trucks or motorcycles long enough, and sooner or later a common problem arises: A needed part is no longer available. Porsche Classic has recently announced ...
1968 Honda CB750 Four prototype. Photos courtesy H&H. Introduced in 1969, Honda’s CB750 Four motorcycle brought a just-right blend of performance, convenience, and affordability to the masses. Belove...
Roy Fjastad. Image via Facebook. From the drag strip, to the salt flats, to the street, there was very little in hot rodding that Roy Fjastad didn’t touch in the course of his career. Fjastad, who di...
1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo. Photo by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. It’s not often that you can point to a specific vehicle with the knowledge that it created...
The car when we first got the Gotelli 392 Hemi located in its perch. “Although this is a Muncie M-21 trans with the stock bellhousing,” Conder explains, “you can see how the 392 (now mounted nearly 2...
Dillinger, the ’41 Buick sedanette owned by Clifford Mattis. Photos courtesy Kahn Media and the Sacramento Autorama. John Dillinger, gunned down in July 1934 by Melvin Purvis and his FBI colleagues, ...