Photo credit: Harley-Davidson Motor Company As if Harley-Davidson’s 114-cubic inch Milwaukee-Eight engine wasn’t big enough to rip your hands right off of the handlebars, Harley-Davidson is announcin...
Date: 1995 Location: South Marquette Avenue and South 7th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Images courtesy FCA. Long before anybody’s wildest imaginations could have conceived of Chrysler (not to mention Dodge and Jeep) becoming part of a multi-national carmaking company that included some...
Italian, mid-engine, and stylish, it’s a 1980 Fiat X1/9 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is my very clean 1981 Fiat X1/9. Own and enjoy a mid-engined, rear wheel driv...
Maybe it’s from spending a week at the Scottsdale Auctions and seeing every shade of muscle car just sitting all too pretty, but we’ve got a hankering to see what it was like when these were the main...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Alma Street and West Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: via City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
Restored 1963 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The particular vehicle has had a fresh repaint in a nice dark gray. The interior is redone with new upho...
Photo credit: Barrett-Jackson Craig Jackson grew up in the auction world. The company founded by his parents and Tom Barrett started in 1971, when Craig was still young. He started running the compan...
Photo by Simopala. Up until late last year, the California Coastal Commission has pursued actions that would severely curtail off-highway vehicle use from Oceano Dunes, the state’s only coastal State...
Dates: mid-1960s, above; 1978, below Location: McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: via Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
With a successful box office run and four Oscar nominations, Ford v Ferrari proved that movie audiences do like car flicks, even if the events of the film don’t precisely match Ford’s quest to domina...
Photos courtesy the author’s collection. In November of 1964, my Uncle Al bought a 1962 Chevrolet Biscayne 2-door sedan from a Milwaukee dealer’s used car lot. The car was bottom of the line, basic b...
We’ve never shied away from preaching that old cars and trucks should be driven, so we were happy to see in some recent correspondence that Bill Bennett continued to use his 1959 Morris Minor pickup ...
1926 Rolls-Royce 20 HP Shooting Brake for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: An extremely rare 1926 Rolls-Royce Shooting Brake. According to Rolls-Royce Foundation records (which ar...
Date: 1979 Location: Madison Avenue and East 71st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York Source: via NYC Nostalgia What do you see here?
In need of restoration 1954 American LaFrance for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The engine still runs, but the truck is in need of some work to get it to the point of driving i...
Gooding & Company topped the Scottsdale auction sales chart in 2020. Not in overall sales, as Barrett-Jackson’s volume yields a total haul that dwarfs the other auction houses, but in terms of indivi...
Image via OldCarBrochures. Just as my desk is littered with the crumbs of too many cookies eaten in a horrifyingly violent manner, my memory is littered with the crumbs of the stories I’ve researched...
Camper-ified 1976 Dodge B300 Tradesman for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Classic and so fun, this tiny house on wheels sits on a heavy duty 1 ton chassis and is powered by a 36...
Bonhams has long been a staple of the mid-January Scottsdale, Arizona, auction scene, with the auction currently located at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. This one-day sale, which began mid-mornin...
Refurbished 1979 Chevrolet LUV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Clean Texas Title. Everything works and passes inspection. Truck runs so well, I used it as a daily driver for ...
Refurbished 1979 Chevrolet LUV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Clean Texas Title. Everything works and passes inspection. Truck runs so well, I used it as a daily driver for ...
The story of how Alec Issigonis and others at BMC created the Mini – along with the stories of its post-release cultural impact – are rather well known, but this 1994 documentary, “ Mini: Wizardry on...
Mid-January is auction week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this year there were eight auction companies in the region hosting sales. One of the first to run is Indiana-based Worldwide Auctioneers, which...
If you wanted the very first production 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and were ready to fork over anything less than $3,000,000, well, it wasn’t meant to be. That was the winning bid at Barrett-Ja...