Futurliner No. 3. Photos via MAG Auctions. While a much-hyped and fully restored Futurliner consigned to auction apparently failed to sell over the weekend, another one of the 12 GM Parade of Progres...
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
Date: circa 1951 Location: Granville Street and 11th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver archives, via Those Old Cars What do you see here?
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...
Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. The original Mini is often credited for laying the foundations of the city car as we know it today. However, that ...
The 1954 model year brought about a number of changes in Chevrolet’s Advance Design light trucks. For instance, GMC first offered the Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic transmission in 1953, but ’54 wa...
From the seller’s description: 1950 Mercury Coupe Lead Sled , 255 ci Flathead V8 bored 60 over with Isky Cam and Lifters, Turned crankshaft with new main and rod bearings, Edlebrock Finned heads with...
1957 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer D-500 convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Carter four-barrel carburetor topped the 325-cu.in. Hemi V-8 block. It produced 285hp and...
Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Legendary drag racer, hot rodder, and land-speed racer Art Chrisman – whose dragster set the pattern for many other quarter-mile conquerors and who racked u...
Mercedes compact design study from 1948. Photos courtesy the Mercedes-Benz archives. Mercedes-Benz made global headlines when it presented the 190 (called w201 internally) in late 1982. To the public...
The El Camino sedan pickup kicked off in flamboyant fashion for the 1959 model year, came to an abrupt end in 1960, then resumed production in 1964 on the mid-size Chevelle/Malibu A-body chassis, whe...
The Borgward Traumwagen (Dream Car). Photo courtesy Borgward. While 1950s concept cars are typically associated with American automakers, a few European companies were pushing the design and engineer...
Feature article from the May 2012 Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car . Photography by Terry Shea Replica, clone, tribute, doppelgänger–call it what you will, but if you are going to build such a car, parti...
Most American car enthusiasts do a double take at the sight of a Meteor: It’s definitely a Ford, just not one that was ever sold in the U.S. Meteors were offered in Canada from 1949 until 1976 and ba...
As if we couldn’t tell from previous scratchbuilt trucks built by the brothers Read, Cliff and Larry, they have a fairly masterful knowledge of trucking history, down to the small but significant det...
Getting this 1958 GAZ M21 Volga for sale on Hemmings.com home might be a little tougher than just scheduling a pickup with a transporter, and there might be a little more paperwork to go with its pur...
According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we’re in Ferndale – specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward – sometime during the Fifties. And if we che...
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he p...
Rarely do we get context on the carspotting photos we dig up. Sometimes we can make pretty good guesses, and sometimes we don’t have a clue, but today’s overview of the intersection of Van Nuys and V...
The town of Montpelier seems a little less busy and less prosperous these days than when this postcard photo was taken sometime in the late Fifties. Indeed, a look at historical census records shows ...
The idea behind the Austin-Healey Sprite was a simple one: Design a basic and low-cost sports car, compact enough to be stored in a bike shed. The Sprite was launched in 1958; Mark I versions feature...
Chrysler pitched its 1956 New Yorker models as “The perfect combination of style and beauty, and a performance that is as exclusively Chrysler as is the new PowerStyle design.” That performance came ...