Alice Ramsey and Hermine Jahns, c.1909. Photo courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library. “A few of our most skeptical friends told us after our return that they d...
1960 Pontiac Catalina for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Beautifully restored off frame restoration. V8 389 cu. in. with 4 barrel carburetor, power steering, power brakes, autom...
Gonna be seeing a lot of Ford Bronco retrospectives ahead of the new Bronco’s introduction this year, so let’s start with the one that The Detroit News put together this week describing the Bronco as...
Would you look at that: More photos from our readers! Which is great, because all of you who responded to our last reader photo roundup pretty much unanimously endorsed the idea of doing this on a re...
Holden Hurricane. Photo courtesy GM Media. With last month’s sudden announcement that GM will kill off the Holden brand as it pulls out of right-hand-drive markets, Australian government officials ha...
Unrestored 1947 Mercury woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Clean and near complete Woodie. It was a southern California Beach Patrol car, back in the day....
Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...
If you’re not into pre-WWII cars, or even if you are, you might expect the proprietor of an outfit specializing in early Fords to be at least 80 years old. After all, conventional wisdom says Model T...
Date: 1970s Location: Greensboro, North Carolina Source: via Farmers Cooperative Exchange Photograph Collection, State Archives of North Carolina What do you see here?
“ Drive Buddy Boy! ” by Ben Addison. The images of cars in motion that Ben Addison paints come across as both familiar and jarring. Sure, the settings, the lighting, even the cars themselves tickle a...
Original unrestored 1973 Dodge Monaco station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very good to great condition throughout. Early 70’s MOPAR wagons (and coupes) are very har...
Photo by Geoff Hacker. Jerry Gardner — The Man Jerome B. “Jerry” Gardner was born April 9, 1934, in Saugerties, New York. He was the son of the late Edward and Anna Brandow Gardner. A veteran of the ...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Museum of Art. After all the talk of streamlined rear-engine cars in America during the Thirties – all the renderings and sketches and homebuilt prototypes and Stout Scarabs...
Date: January 1963 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Dominic Pasquarella, Temple University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Ford Probe I. Photo via Christie’s. They both arose from the same economic factors and in the same general time period. They had some styling similarities, emblematic of that time period. They both r...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
With its hardtop styling, sculptured sides and limited front-end overhang, the 1960 Thunderbird was a styling masterpiece. Note how the bottom spear flows into the rear bumper. Hot on the heels of th...
I’ve lately been giving oxygen to the idea of buying something super cheap and/or free – maybe two somethings super cheap and/or free – and cutting and splicing them together to make some Moreauvian ...