1912 Henderson Four. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. January is typically a good time of the year to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, particularly if one is shopping for vintage motorcycles. Auction firms Bon...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...
Date: December 1958 Location: Fremont Street, Las Vegas Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Date: February 1959 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
N100001, the first Camaro built on the pilot assembly line, displayed in the GM booth. Photos by author. Though it was conceived as an industry trade show to support the automotive aftermarket perfor...
The car that won the first Indianapolis 500, the 1911 Marmon Wasp, on display in Shell’s SEMA booth. Photos by Steve Berry. Every year, the automotive aftermarket flocks to Las Vegas in early Novembe...
“Bombshell Betty,” a heavily modified Land Speed Record-holding 1952 Buick Super Riviera. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. At a length of just over 17 feet and a shipping weight approaching 3,800 pou...
Date: circa 1955 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Date: August 1968 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Date: June 1973 Location: Honest John’s Casino, Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Date: January 1975 Location: Riviera, Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Date: August 1962 Location: Fremont Street, Las Vegas Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Photos courtesy SEMA. If trade shows – beyond merely serving as a means of collecting business cards and branded swag – tend to serve as a barometer of an industry’s health, then the annual SEMA show...
Two recent photos on Vintage Las Vegas not only show Fremont Street at night – not unusual in itself, given how spectacular Glitter Gulch looked once the sun went down – but show it almost exactly 10...
We’re sure it’s no coincidence that Vintage Las Vegas posted two collections including shots of the Silver Slipper Saloon in quick succession recently, and as it just so happens both feature a decent...
Could’ve sworn we’ve already run this photo of Las Vegas’s Fremont Street, submitted to us by Facebook reader Nikos Kostopoulus, but it’s not coming up in the searches, so let’s use it to cap off thi...
My first short film I made for film school. Motorcycles are a big part of life. I wanted to make a film to show how intimate we get with the road. Most people ride to get away from the daily grind an...
1951 Vincent White Shadow, in Chinese Red. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Pre-auction estimates turned out to be a tad low for the top-selling lot at Bonhams’s Las Vegas motorcycle sale, held on January...
We can’t resist coming back to Las Vegas’s Fremont Street – pre-enclosure – time and time again. Thanks to all the neons and the flashy signs that advertised the casinos and other establishments ther...
This 1908 Harley-Davidson bid to $400,000, but failed to meet its reserve. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 25th-annual MidAmerica motorcycle auction featured five bikes that cracked the $100,...
Bildschirme, überall Bildschirme Es war ja ziemlich was los auf der CES, also der Messe, die leitend für die Branche der Konsumelektronik steht. Vor allem aber lag das daran, dass neben den Elektroko...
Under new ownership and reeling from a decline in the snowmobile market, Rupp Manufacturing needed a home-run product to reverse its fortunes in 1974. Its roll-of-the-dice gamble was the Centaur, a t...
Since our recent posts on Route 66 and the alternate cross-country routes y’all suggested, we’re paying more attention to the old route marker signs, such as the three for U.S. 91, U.S. 93, and U.S. ...
1918 Harley-Davidson board track racer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The first full week of January, 2016, will no doubt have hundreds of motorcycle collectors and investors looking for that next ...
Spend enough time, and one could probably compile a complete set of photos of the Las Vegas strip from every month of every year in the latter half of the 20th century, all through individual tourist...