If you’re not into pre-WWII cars, or even if you are, you might expect the proprietor of an outfit specializing in early Fords to be at least 80 years old. After all, conventional wisdom says Model T...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
Look at the direction-changing driving lights on this 1930 Duesenberg Model J Berline at the Worldwide Auctioneers sale in Scottsdale, Arizona. Get up close to an old car and all kinds of details pop...
Death on the Ridge Road by Grant Wood, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art. “Grant Wood never said what he meant” with any of his paintings, Kevin Murphy warned. “He was really enigmatic.” When i...
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...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
Does your snowmobile have a cabin and room for passengers and luggage? It’s a 1928 Ford Model A 2 door in snowmobile configuration for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a v...
1940 Dodge D-14 DeLuxe convertible (top); 1941 Buick Special 46S Sport Coupe (bottom). Images by the author. Season Four of This or That continues this week with a pair of two-door models from the im...
1915 Buick C-4 Express (top); 1928 International SF-36. Images by the author. As the holiday season nears at a rapid pace, let’s launch Season Four of This or That with a couple of haulers – ideally ...
Images are courtesy of Mitsubishi Motors Media Services As an automaker, Mitsubishi has a relatively short history in the United States, but this diversified company has been active for nearly 150 ye...
We received an email from a subscriber last month, asking to help identify the wood wheel seen here, but came up short. Can you offer any information to determine the origin of the item above? The he...
Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
Benoist in a Delage. Photo courtesy Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The streets around the newly constructed Garage Banville in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement were and remain narrow, busy, and flat – ...
Before World War II, modifying cars was as much about what you could adapt as what you could buy. Photo of an auto dump near Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1935 by Walker Evans of the Farm Security Adminis...
Images via OldCarBrochures.com Around 1966, my wife Doris, our daughter Annette, our son Dewayne and I went to see the movie The Great Race , starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The ...
Images courtesy of Bentley Hot on the heels of its 100-year anniversary Bentley announced it will rebuild 12 exacting, period-correct replicas of one of its most famous cars, Tim Birkin’s 1929 4 1/2-...
The views from atop Corkscrew Hill are simply amazing. Here the Group 2A machines, 1955-’61 Sports Cars, make a warm-up lap behind the pace car. Photos by David Conwill. “Pebble Beach,” as Monterey C...
John Athan’s 1929 Ford roadster atop a 1932 Ford frame is historical not only for its appearance along side Elvis Presley in the 1957 film Loving You (The King’s first starring role), but because it ...
1932 Mercedes-Benz SSKL Avus recreation at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed. All photos courtesy Daimler AG. Crippled by an ailing global economy, Mercedes-Benz divested itself from racing after 1...
Co-Founder William Besserdich on the first four-wheel drive steam vehicle. Photo courtesy of the “FWD Four Wheel Drive Museum” Facebook page. The Four Wheel Drive Museum of Clintonville, Wisconsin, w...
From the seller’s description: 1927 Ford Model T In a showroom with original, correct, straight standing, never waiver from the norm typical Model T or Model A there’s a statement to be heard from on...
A 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS Zagato. Photo courtesy of the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA. For the second time, the management of the 1000 Miglia is bringing the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA to Virginia and Wash...
Owner Bill Stanley showed his ultra-rare 1935 Chrysler Airstream C6, which replaced the Airflow before it. It’s powered by a 95-horsepower straight-six flathead displacing 241.5 cubic inches. This se...
Race car driver Joan Newton Cuneo. Photo courtesy of the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s Facebook page. To honor the upcoming 100th anniversary of American women gaining the right to vote, the Saratoga ...