Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America Museum. Held annually during Meet Week in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the AACA Museum’s “Night at the Museum” gives visitors a chance to s...
The anodized aluminum caps in question. It’s been a while since our last From the Toolbox segment, and this one comes to us from reader Dave Wood. Dave is asking for help identifying something that’s...
In the early 1980s, this was the first book that I read to learn about how cars work and how to service them. Published by Goodheart-Willcox Co. of Chicago, this 1970 edition belonged to my father wh...
1954 De Soto Coronado. Brochure and ad scans from author’s collection. During the boom years of the immediate postwar era, auto manufacturers were doing their best to create ads that touted their new...
Field mouse. Photo by Martyn Fletcher. Last week, I decided that the two-year-old cabin air filter in my truck had served out its useful life and was due for replacement. Swapping it out was an easy ...
Photos courtesy Checker Cab Club. Though it’s only been around for a little more than a year, the Checker Cab Club recently scored a couple troves of rather significant documentation on the Kalamazoo...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Can your camera do this? Send it to college. Film shorts along the lines of this one doubtless led to later mandatory disclaimers such as, “No persons, an...
One has to wonder how so many carmakers get away with appropriating reusing existing names in the automotive pantheon. By dint of their size and access to lawyers, probably. As we ponder that, the Hi...
Images from the brochure collection of the author. An old Hyundai on Hemmings? Hear us out. Few today would question that this South Korean automaker is now a major player in the American new-car mar...
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. Since 2012, Mark Lizewskie has been the executive director of the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and as a board member for The Elegance at Hershey, he’s been a fami...
A majority of Americans and American Manufacturers could see the handwriting on the wall in 1945. The war would soon be over, but nobody knew exactly when. War-time scrap metal and newspaper drives w...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. If you owned one of these foldouts back in the 1980s, you may have been one of the lucky few who had purchased a 1983 Hurst/Olds. The book...
“In a world crammed with impact, your voice has to be heard over all others.” No, we’re not talking Don LaFontaine here. Rather, the beaming face of Lorne Greene, the charming, wise, tough-as-nails b...
Granddad’s 1920 Model T C-Cab. Photo courtesy David Lowry. My late grandfather was a Ford man for as long as I can remember, and even before that. He had a laundry business in Pasadena, California, a...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Our Summer Destinations Series continues with yet another plug for painstakingly detailing your automotive pride and joy, then loading up the crew and dri...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Ooh, that body lean is making us a bit queasy… 1974 represented the last model year for Volvo’s 140 series, which dated back to the August 1966 i...
Front view. Photography by author. While digging around in the basement the other day, my first Pinewood Derby racer resurfaced. Upon reading that sentence, those of you who were in the Cub Scouts li...
Images courtesy of the author’s collection. Starting with the 1966 model year and continuing on into the early ’70s, a recurring magazine-ad motif for Ford’s personal-luxury Thunderbird centered on p...
Photography by author. One additional item I found at the flea market, in the pile of boxes destined for the dumpster that I discussed in An emergency automobilia and tool rescue effort, was deservin...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The “ Born from Jets ” tagline of the mid-2000s may have seemed fresh at the time -if a bit far-fetched for the then-GM subsidiary- but ...
Some people fill their garages with old cars to restore. Joel Baker fills his with 20-foot-tall fiberglass muffler men of multiple configurations, many of which he’s documented as part of his America...
Photography by author. In “A Dog’s Life,” an episode of the classic TV show The Honeymooners, Alice adopts a dog from the pound without Ralph’s knowledge. Foraging for a snack in the icebox, neighbor...
1933 Auburn advertisement, courtesy of OldCarAdvertising.com Certain parts have entered the collective consciousness as quintessential automotive hardware above and beyond their status as original eq...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The first-generation Toyota Celica got a fairly frosty reception when it arrived in 1971, unlike its near instantly-popular fastback 240...