Disney press photo. At the height of General Motors’ dominance throughout the middle of the 20th century, executives rarely missed the opportunity to go all out at major expositions and even created ...
Customized 1981 Chevrolet Corvette for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: automatic, 350 cu in with a 750 CFM Holley Carburetor and a B&M Supercharger with MSD multiple spark discha...
Note Bill’s Aston near the top left of the photo. Photos by Bill Chizar and Steve Patience, courtesy S. Scott Callan/Velocity Press. I felt one of the first questions by the previous owners would be ...
Neal Bascomb’s new book, “Faster,” got the attention of the New York Times this week, which decided to look into which one of America’s premier collectors owns the Rene Dreyfus-driven Delahaye 145 th...
Date: circa 1980s Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Source: via University of Virginia Library What do you see here?
GM Lean Machine. Photo courtesy GM Media. Frank Winchell never liked the name “Lean Machine,” as GM called the three-wheeled concept vehicle that it showed off in 1982. To him, it was the cambering v...
Date: spring 1980 Location(s): Paris, France (above); Amsterdam, Netherlands (below) Source: Marjorie Leuschner What do you see here?
Marreau brothers 1981 Renault R20 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: With great pride, we offer one of the pioneering cars of the famous rally raid Paris-Dakar : the legendary R...
Street Coupe edition 1980 GMC Sierra Grande for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very rare truck have only seen one other survivor 4WD, 350 engine, dual exhaust with cherry bomb g...
Date: March 1983 Location: Sainsbury’s, Bath, England Source: via Sainsbury Archive What do you see here?
Date: May 1980 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Source: via City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
Date: 1983 Location: B.C. Place Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: via City of Vancouver Archives It’s a little blurry, but what do you see here?
Date: 1983 Location: Finsbury Square Apartments, Washington, D.C. Source: Dorn C. McGrath, via Smithsonian Institution Archives What do you see here?
Refurbished 1982 Airstream 24-foot RV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Airstream only sold 28′ and 31′ that year. The 24′ was a special order and there were possibly 6 manufac...
It’s an old trope that stock cars used to be stock cars, but there’s still a lot of truth to that. In between those early NASCAR days when off-the-assembly-line Hudson Twin H-Power big sixes ruled th...
Recently serviced 1988 Fiat Ritmo Abarth for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Abarth 130TC with just 38,500 kilometers. Homologation special equipped with 2.0 liter DOHC engine wi...
Traveling from the northernmost part of Europe to the southernmost part of Africa is usually an ordeal that involves plenty of advance planning, levelheadedness, and professionalism. Not so with Rich...
Date: 1987 Location: Toronto, Ontario Source: Rick Eglinton, via Toronto Public Library What do you see here?
Ford Probe I. Photo via Christie’s. They both arose from the same economic factors and in the same general time period. They had some styling similarities, emblematic of that time period. They both r...
Date: 1986 Location: 151st Street, New York City, New York Source: via NYC Nostalgia What do you see here?
T-top 1987 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Bright Blue Metallic with Charcoal Interior. Original 5.0 V-8 with Automatic Transmission. Features include Tinted...
Date: December 1981 Location: Second Avenue and Stewart Street, Seattle, Washington Source: Leslie H. Hamilton, via University of Washington Libraries What do you see here?
Repainted 1980 Chevrolet Camaro for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This two-owner car is in excellent condition. It was a true barn find with only 25,000 miles when I purchased ...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
Date: circa late 1980s Location: Pine Creek Road, McCandless, Pennsylvania Source: via Historic Pittsburgh What do you see here?