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...
While narrowing down a location for one of last week’s Hartford carspotting scenes, we had help from a few other photos in the collection Joe Sokola provided us that showed some key overlap. For exam...
Older resto, probably needs a little cosmetic work, but this 1968 Ford Galaxie XL fastback for sale on Hemmings.com still looks sharp in photos and the Q-code 340 hp 428 – the largest engine availabl...
Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg. Still image from Kickstarter video preview. Peter Gregg was one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s, and with racing partner Hurley Haywood, put the Brumos...
If you’ve been a passenger in an enclosed car or truck more than twice in your lifetime, odds are pretty good that an air freshener was dangling from a radio knob or the rear view mirror. You would h...
Things in Canada are just a bit different than things in the United States. We eat chili cheese fries, while our neighbors to the north prefer poutine; we like football, they prefer hockey. The same ...
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...
The good: This 1963 Corvair 95 panel van for sale on Hemmings.com has a good mechanical foundation and everything appears present and accounted for. The not so good: It’s rough, with plenty of rust t...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...
If you’d like to get a look at our 1980 MGB roadster, a.k.a. the Project Car with a Heart, here’s a golden opportunity. The Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine, has put our little red...
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...
In 1979, driving a one-year-old Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash was like hiding and cheating in plain sight. While entries more cleverly disg...
Peter Revson’s 1972 McLaren M20 Can-Am car. Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1966, the SCCA’s U.S. Road Racing Championship spun off a new series, created in cooperation with the ...
Photo of GM ad by author. Though the Oldsmobile ad/brochure that I blogged about a few weeks ago ( Spooky 1969 Olds Literature: Dr. Oldsmobile Creates a W-Machine. Or Two. ) featured an elaborate vin...
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 ...
Some people would probably moan at the minor deviations from stock on this 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 for sale on Hemmings.com, such as the smog pump delete performed during the restoration. Others w...
1965 Buick Riviera GS. Photos by Mathieu Heurteult, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Introduced in 1963, the Buick Riviera came to market as a personal luxury coupe long on both st...
Every generation of auto enthusiast has a decade that resonates with them, for better or for worse. While the cars of the 1970s may have been crippled by emission regulations and plagued by occasiona...
Photos by author. If you like the aggressive lines of the fastback body style as well as the spacious luxury of a full-size automobile, think Delmont. If you never heard of a Delmont, you’re not alon...
Let’s remain in the PNW for today’s carspotting scene, though we’ll have to give up aircraft carrier decks for this land-based scene in Olympia, presumably downtown, though we’ve yet to come across a...
Some cars really speak for themselves, and some cars have a lot to say when it comes to speaking for themselves. Then there’s this 1982 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista for sale on Hemmings.com, a Les D...
The Ford GTs run at Daytona. Image courtesy Ford Motor Company. Developing a competitive new racing car, based upon a production car, is an arduous task. Doing so in a little over one year borders on...
Photo via The Henry Ford. As mentioned in our recent post on Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster, a number of other significant cars came after it, including the 1934 Model 40 Speedster – the one that s...
We know the exact date of the full-size photo below – February 13, 1982 – and the exact location – the deck of the USS Enterprise. Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked came across the color version of the p...
Many a significant car existed in multiple configurations, but there can only be one existing car, and thus it can only represent one of the multiple configurations, right? Then there’s this 1932 For...