A while back, we ran a piece on the 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo sale brochure, and it generated a surprising amount of discussion. Much of it was centered on the highest-performance variant, the Monte...
I don’t know how many of you believe in ghosts, or care, but sometimes there is a story worth telling. This ’73 AMX Pierre Cardin is known as “the murder AMX” as owner was killed in a garage, body du...
As Mac’s Motor City Garage wrote this week, 1958’s “An Evening With Fred Astaire” was the first television program recorded on color videotape, a feat made possible in part by sponsorship by Chrysler...
It isn’t likely that the first owner of this 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia, for sale on Hemmings.com, purchased his car for investment purposes, intent on preserving it for future generations. Life, as t...
We consider them legends today, but the people racing at Bonneville in the early 1950s were for the most part just regular guys looking to go fast. Fortunately, a couple enthusiasts went out there wi...
Many thanks to the folks who, knowing of my penchant for Seventies Jeep and AMC products, tipped me to this 1972 AMC Matador two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. However, those same people also...
Let’s continue our visit to New York with another couple photos from the Historic American Engineering Record’s documentation of the Bronx’s Third Street El, starting with the photo above of the Ford...
Thanks to Mark Peter Drolet on Tumblr, we came across this Jack Garofolo photo of Harlem in the 1970s, but tracking down the exact location proved a little more difficult. Florsheim Shoes and A.J. Le...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...
Wade Kawasaki’s restored 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge. Post-restoration photos courtesy Coker Tire. Blame it on Facebook: after reconnecting with a high school friend on social media, Coker Tire president ...
Thanks to Jim and Chester’s Garage, we’ve got a pair of carspotting photos showing downtown Charleston, West Virginny, and its bustling Capitol Street. We’ve even got a date – 1973 – which gives us a...
Our friends across the pond have a wonderful description of disorder, calling it “the dog’s breakfast.” While most $5,000 Challenge installments have a common theme, this one does not. There are spor...
Bathurst has to be one of the greatest races that Americans don’t watch. Fortunately, there’s YouTube, where we can get the highlights of many great Bathurst races from years past, including this 25-...
Over on Facebook, Graham Graham copied us on this neat street scene from Orange, New South Wales, which he dated to either April or May of 1974. The street sign in the foreground pointed us to the cu...
1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Chevrolet’s Cosworth Vega could have been the car that attracted enthusiast drivers to the Vega line, and it could have shown the world...
If the Oldsmobile 4-4-2 is among the best-known muscle cars of its day, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SX may be among the most obscure. Built in 1970 and 1971 only, the SX package, code Y79, added a...
True, whoever buys this 1979 Isuzu 117XG sport coupe for sale on Hemmings.com is only likely to see another one here in the States in a plate glass window reflection, but it’s got more than just the ...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In the first two parts of Project Apollo, I discussed finding, buying, and shipping my vintage car. That part of the story had largely been out of my hands, but once th...
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its racing and performance division, TRD, Toyota put together a half-hour look back over TRD’s greatest hits, whether on the track, on the road, or off-road. ( vi...
One could probably trace the entire length of the now-demolished Third Avenue El as it ran through the Bronx thanks to the photos in the Historic American Engineering Record – which, if you think abo...
So let’s burn through the rest of the Third Avenue El line photos from the Historic American Engineering Record over the next couple days. Above, the caption places the location at 183rd Street ; as ...
When the Z/28 returned mid-1977, after a two-plus-model-year hiatus, it was packing some fairly stout components, standard issue: 11-inch clutch, Borg-Warner Super T-10 transmission, beefy driveshaft...
Debuting in spring 1970, the Grabber package added muscle car styling to the entry-level Ford Maverick, without necessarily adding performance. Featuring stripe graphics, a blacked-out grille and rea...
Debuting in spring 1970, the Grabber package added muscle car styling to the entry-level Ford Maverick, without necessarily adding performance. Featuring stripe graphics, a blacked-out grille and rea...
For decades, Volkswagen’s van-based camper was the affordable RV of choice for those with a passion for camping and long-distance road trips. Rising prices and declining sales halted U.S. imports of ...