Breese Paris roadster (L) and Breese Paris teardrop roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. As an automotive marque, Breese may be unfamiliar to even the most passionate Brass Era enthusiasts. Founded by ...
“Motoring,” a 2009 charcoal and pencil drawing by Laurie Lipton. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. Since the revamped Petersen Automotive Museum reopened in December 2015, the Los Angeles, California,...
1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures.org. The American convertible, as we all know, died after Cadillac churned out 14,000 Eldorados in 1976 and wealthy speculators latc...
Date: March 1956 Location: Park Avenue West, Ontario, Ohio Source: via Columbus Neighborhoods What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1985 Dodge Omni GLH-T , excellent original condition. Purchased from long time second owner (second owner purchased the car in late 1986). 15,6xx original miles (miles ...
From the seller’s description: 1955 Buick Super in incredible condition; this is a California car with zero rust and it drives amazingly great. Desirable options on this Super which include power bra...
Underpowered, slow, and uncomfortable, Peykans were everywhere in Iran in the 1970s. Fearless Tehran taxi drivers often drove their Peykans on sidewalks or the wrong direction on one-way streets. Pho...
Numbers-matching 1970 Chrysler 300H for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: one of 501 produced with the A-12 Hurst Corporation package. A North Carolina car since new.. This very ra...
During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...
From the seller’s description: 1962 Mercury Monterey Custom , 352 V8 with three speed automatic trans. PB, PS. This was a CA car that I purchased from the grandson of the original owners, I brought i...
Image courtesy Google Street View. It first opened as yet another garage that sold Model Ts, one of probably tens of thousands like it across the country, and for almost 100 years, the little dealers...
This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...
The author’s boat and boss on the Sacramento River near Knight’s Landing in Northern California. Photographs by Dan Stoner and Howard Custom Boats. By the early Sixties — let’s say, just before the d...
Look, we’ve been saying for years now that the world is an amazing place, if for no other reason than it has seemed to embrace classic American cars in ways we statesiders could’ve never imagined. Th...
Date: August 1970 Location: Goose Lake, Leoni Township, Michigan Source: via Vintage Trailers What do you see here?
German market 1973 Citroen GS sedan for sale. From the seller’s description: Citroen GS with 44,000 miles (71,000 kilometers), 4-speed manual. Very well-preserved German market car – very rare in the...
1923 Harley-Davidson JF. Photo by Kurt Ernst. Stage 10 of this year’s Motorcycle Cannonball will begin in Sturgis, South Dakota, and end in Billings, Montana. Leader Chris Tribbey dropped a valve on ...
Photos by denizen24. Relations between the United States and Peru took a huge nosedive when General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized power via coup in October 1968, and didn’t seem to improve much during...
From the seller’s description: Up for your consideration is a rare example of a 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo highly desirable factory Black with Red Interior. It has only 19k miles on the odometer and ...
2019 Volkswagen Beetle Final Edition convertibles, in SE (left) and SEL trims. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America, Inc., unless otherwise noted. The original Volkswagen Beetle was the symbol of a ...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Evergreen Plaza, Evergreen Park, Illinois Source: Chicago Tribune What do you see here?
Longtime single family-owned 1964 Peel P50 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Family owned vehicle bought in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada in 1968. Dad saw it in the ...
Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns — towns that did not allow blac...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Why is a nearly 40-year-old collection of speculative fiction about cars gone bad worth rediscovering? The simple answer is that we might find some solace in past cultu...
Date: 1969 Location: Broad Street, Camden, South Carolina Source: submitted by Jack Shea What do you see here?