Photography by author. If you appreciate Pontiac’s outstanding engineering and sleek style yet you prefer to own the type of collector cars that are unique and fairly rare then consider the 1967 Gran...
To be honest, I got no idea where this photo was taken. But the palm trees and the signage en Espanol and the preponderance of American cars makes me believe it can only be somewhere in Mexico. Googl...
So we came across this photo on the website of the Champlain Bridge in Montreal, but we can’t figure out for the life of us where the photo was taken. The shadows seem to indicate that we’re looking ...
Chevrolet’s Super Sport models are often viewed as high-performance, but in 1963 the SS package was more show than go, adding things like emblems, bucket seats, a center console and unique wheel cove...
Reader Gary Rynsburger sent us a link to the 1966 Chevrolet introduction video this week specifically for the camper truck chase scene toward the end, but we figured the entire thing would be worth w...
To wrap up this week of European carspotting, let’s head over to The Netherlands with two photo postcards we came across on Flickr. Above, a look at Grote Markt – now car-less – and Sint Geertruidus ...
Prices for driver-quality Volkswagen Beetles have been on an upward swing in recent years, as a once seemingly endless supply has dwindled dramatically. Worse, many surviving examples have been custo...
Not sure exactly where Porshce’s ad agency at the time shot this photo for an ad for the 911, so if anybody recognizes the bridge the Neun-Elf is on, let us know. In the meantime, there’s plenty of E...
Oddly, our sources for 1968 Mercurys show the 302 as the base V-8 engine that year (Fords could still get a 289 in 1968), but this 1968 Mercury Comet coupe for sale on Hemmings.com has a C-code 289, ...
Photo by Phil Parrish, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Though it rolled down the assembly line at Norwood, Ohio without a name or nameplate and with a simple six-cylinder engine, the car then ...
To some, the collector car hobby is about driving a classic car, a fairly broad term that encompasses a wide variety of vehicles and manufacturers. To others, the hobby is about preserving or restori...
Photography by the author. No wonder Carroll Shelby was smitten by the Ace when he first saw one. This British-built automobile has that perfect sports car look, with a simple, unspoiled shape that i...
The styling of this 1962 Plymouth Fury for sale on Hemmings.com – like pretty much every other 1962 Fury – is so compelling, it’s easy to overlook the fact that it’s a four-door (a four-door hardtop,...
Photo courtesy Nader.org. He may never have owned or driven a car, but Ralph Nader has had an undisputed influence on the development of the automobile over the last 50 years, and it’s for that influ...
Oldsmobile’s Toronado began life as a design sketch that was never intended to go beyond the “what if” stage. When approved for production, even Bill Mitchell was unsuccessful in getting the car down...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
Photo by Matt Litwin. Nobody couldn’t have predicted that the stratospheric success of the 1965 Mustang would lead to direct competition: Everybody suddenly wanted a part of the youth market that Lee...
Photos by the author. Italy’s carrozzerias were renowned for crafting beautifully shaped sports car bodies out of hand-formed aluminum, but in England, where the burgeoning sports car and racing spec...
As with all the street scenes collected by the Duke University Digital Libraries, these two from Phoenix focus on the outdoor advertising of the time and provide no date or location context. The typi...
Dodge celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1964, and its gift to Dart buyers was a newly available 273-cu.in. V-8 that boosted the performance of the division’s compact-size offering. This 1964 Dodge D...
So this 1964 Studebaker GT Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com is gonna need some sweat equity to hit the road again. That’ll probably scare off all but the most interested of buyers, and the necessary rus...
Most folks probably know David Greenless as the man behind The Old Motor, but he’s also an accomplished restorer and caretaker of pre-World War I thoroughbreds, including the 1915 Duesenberg race car...
Whenever we come across a photo labeled Chicago that doesn’t seem to depict an urban area, we immediately think it’s gotta be on Lake Shore Drive. Today’s unattributed carspotting photo, which we cam...
Pontiac pitched its 1964 Catalina as the brand’s lowest-priced full-size offering, but despite the family-friendly sticker, the Catalina still came with standard features like electric wipers, dual s...
So why be coy about the hot rodding potential of a car like this 1964 Plymouth Savoy for sale on Hemmings.com? It is a likely candidate for a Hemi or Max Wedge clone (as the seller points out), it’s ...