My friends and I loved to watch Starsky & Hutch when we were kids. Cool plainclothes detectives, David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, showing their righteous indignation toward the circumstances that su...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
Photos by author. Today’s auto manufacturers limit color choices to mainly boring-looking silvers and grays, along with equally uninspiring dark blues, black and white, but back in the 1950s new car ...
Photos courtesy Checker Motor Cars. With a stock of Checker parts in hand and official paperwork filed, the reborn Checker Motor Cars is set to begin production of its versions of the famed taxi comp...
These are dome lamp covers, but from which postwar American vehicle? Photos by author unless otherwise noted. The internet is often referred to as “the sum of all human knowledge,” but from our persp...
Mitsubishi PX33, photo by Lennart Coopmans. Most car companies don’t spend their first 44 years not building cars then take another multi-decade break from the business. Then again, most car companie...
Photo by Tom Kelly. As racers and supporters of land-speed racing at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats prepare to go to Congress with demands for the restoration of the racing venue, the international rac...
1932 BMW R11 motorcycle for sale. From the seller’s description: Since BMW first began to manufacture motorcycles after the Great War in 1924, their intent was to make a product that would sell for y...
Photo by Jannes Glas. While much of Route 66 remains in existence and in use, its decommissioning more than 30 years ago has left its fate largely to the various states through which the Mother Road ...
The Turnpike Cruising Package was only available on the Cutlass Supreme models for 1967. Artwork courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. The advent of the Turnpike Cruising Package m...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...
Jack Griffith at Amelia Island, circa 2010. Photo by Jim Cowen, courtesy Automodello. If fortune favors the bold, Andrew “Jack” Griffith must have been among the luckiest men in America. After servin...
From the seller’s description: Unimog 421, 1969, convertible, short wheelbase, full equipment. New engine, OM616 / 2,4l, Large transmission (“H” / 26 speeds) with double clutch. Among other things, s...
1910 Hudson Touring Car. Images courtesy Seal Cove Auto Museum. Seal Cove Auto Museum, on the spectacular Maine coast, occupies a unique place at the juncture of automotive history and the research o...
From the seller’s description: 1973 Dodge tradesman 100 van. Great original survivor van with 69 thousand original miles. Strong running 318 v8 with 3 speed manual on the column. Steering joint and t...
Photo by Chris McFarland. In a deal announced Thursday, January 5, Stanley Black & Decker has agreed to purchase the Craftsman brand from Sears Holdings for an initial payment of $525 million, an add...
Photo courtesy Goodwood Estate. A two-year-old European Union high court ruling became the center of controversy in the United Kingdom last month after racers there raised an alarm that the ruling’s ...
Photo courtesy Nick Arias Jr. Racing Components. Even before a high school aptitude test confirmed it, Nick Arias Jr. knew that his future would involve the “industrial arts.” Born to a railroad mach...
Photos by Jake Schreiber. It’s been a while since we’ve run an installment in the “From the Toolbox” series, but we recently received a pair of photos from reader Jake Schreiber that, quite frankly, ...
From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a very rare 1970 Buick LeSabre Custom 4 door Sedan. The car is all original and is in a great condition for being 46 years old. The engine starts right u...
Photos by the author and Mike McNessor. Though both Checker Motor and International Harvester operated in entirely different segments of the auto market, a newly discovered document from the Sixties ...
1964 AC Cobra (top); 1965 Griffith Series 200 (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an ...
Photo by Mr. Muggles. Thankfully, we’ve survived another trip around the sun, which means it’s time once again for our annual gaze into the crystal ball, which smells suspiciously of carb cleaner (re...
Photo by Tony Harrison. Three legends of drag racing in Great Britain, and the island nation’s most fabled quarter mile, have been announced as the newest class of inductees to the British Drag Racin...
From the seller’s description: 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark 4 purchased from the estate of the original owner. Garage kept since new, always driven and used (never sat) with only 53,000 original mil...