Reminiscing – Firebird Dreams
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400. Magazine ad from editor’s collection. These stories usually start out with tales of how the writer had to work long and hard at all manner of menial jobs until he saved eno...
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400. Magazine ad from editor’s collection. These stories usually start out with tales of how the writer had to work long and hard at all manner of menial jobs until he saved eno...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Chicago, Illinois Source: via The Old Motor What do you see here?
Tally up all of the vehicles in all of the photos in all of the carspotting posts we’ve run (more than 1,500 now!), and you’re talking tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of cars, trucks, buses, an...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Christown Mall, Phoenix, Arizona Source: courtesy Gordon E. Herschel What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1962 Pontiac LeMans , convertible, 38,000 Miles, factory 4-speed, 4-bbl white with red interior. very low ownership from new! No Rust, no accidents, no problems! This i...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For nearly 50 years, the curious Cheetah Transporter has remained in a state of flux, unfinished amid a transition to a long-wheelbase disc-brake version designed to mak...
Date: October 1965 Location: Lodge Expressway, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: I’m assisting an AACA Car Club Member in listing his ’68 Buick LeSabre Convertible for sale. This car is an all-original survivor car with only 55k miles. It’s been own...
Unrestored 1963 Lincoln Continental for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Alrighty. I put it up for sale last year…took it down…drove the car some more. It’s time to put it back up...
“Bus” was different and a lot of fun to drive…unless I got stuck in mud, sand, or snow. It was the late ’60s, Woodstock was happening, and everyone displayed the “peace sign.”All photos courtesy the ...
TheDieselDartGuy showed up on the AACA forums recently to show off the Nissan six-cylinder diesel-powered 1974 Dart he bought new, one of a handful converted shortly after they left the factory to de...
Date: circa 1960s Location: O’Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland Source: OldDublinTown What do you see here?
Original paint 1962 Ford Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Kept in original owners Museum from 1980 until I purchased in 2010 Best Color Combo, Incredible Origin...
Date: 1967 Location: Meiji Jingu Park, Tokyo, Japan Source: via Japanese Nostalgic Car What do you see here?
Date: circa 1960s Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source: via The Oldie But Goodie What do you see here?
Big-block-swapped 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Originally a Georgia car that started life as a six cylinder, three speed, to a meticulous, full fra...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Date: circa 1960s Location: somewhere on the Long Island Expressway, New York Source: submitted by Nicholas James Randall What do you see here?
Robert Moses had all sorts of grand plans for Manhattan’s road network, none grander than the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). However, as Curbed pointed out in this 2016 article, the efforts of a...
Photos courtesy The Woodstock Bus project. When Bob Grimm paid Bob Hieronimus $1,000 in 1968 to paint up an 11-window Volkswagen bus for the former’s rock band, Light, neither could imagine that it w...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Many automakers diversified their advertising content for the same car to reach more potential buyers, and Pontiac was no differen...
From the seller’s description: 1962 Buick Skylark – Original 2-door coupe with just over 30,000 actual miles. All-aluminum 215 cid V-8 with 4-bbl carburetor, automatic dual-path turbine trans, dual s...
Date: circa 1960s Location: North 9th Street, Springfield, Illinois Source: Springfield Rewind, via John Weinhoeft What do you see here?
Restored four-speed 1961 Oldsmobile F85 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The result of a recently completed 3 yr. professional rotisserie, every nut and bolt restoration. Orig...