To get the Cummins Indy cars ready for their exhibition laps around the Brickyard this weekend, the Cummins folks had to replace some unobtanium parts via 3-D printing. Over the years, some parts on ...
Photos via Historics Auctioneers. Automakers can get into some unexpected business models once they leave their original niches. Some become breweries while others go on to real estate ventures. Talb...
Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...
Image courtesy Brubaker Box Fans on Facebook. Even the people behind the Brubaker Box didn’t quite know how to position the people mover. Was it a minivan before the term took hold? A surf wagon? A c...
How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
In the years since his death, Fred Rogers has been hailed as a champion for educational television, a practitioner of radical kindness and acceptance, and a balm for the ills of our modern world. He ...
Photograph by the author. Ever have a grand idea to do something to your car and, after a number of torturous, laborious, and expensive steps, it turns out to be not what you hoped it would be? I had...
1978 Milt Antonick drawing shows conventional doors. One day, Plymouth designer Milt Antonick took a full-size Dodge van home, but couldn’t fit it into his garage. Milt recalled, as we looked at his ...
Reconditioned 1965 Ford Econoline TravelWagon camper van for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 170 CI, 3 on the tree manual. Approximately 59000 original miles. These vans are extr...
In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...
Steve McKelvie let us know this week that Scott Henderson, a Great Race rally driver who notably helped save a Buick that lost its brakes from tumbling off the Mount Washington auto road this past su...
Patina-rich 1968 Citroen HY van for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: VIN# 5214646 The engine is a 1.9Liter mounted to its 3-speed transmission. Very well running engine that has b...
Mechanically refurbished 1987 Citroen C15E for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: one of two known to seller in North America. The Visa version of Citroen’s famed Truckette. Peugeot...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...
This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...
Date: August 1970 Location: Goose Lake, Leoni Township, Michigan Source: via Vintage Trailers What do you see here?
Project-status 1975 Volkswagen Type 2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Selling my nice 1975 VW Bus 15 Window Bus running project car. This would make a great shop car or for s...
“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 ...
Date: circa early 1980s Location: North Avenue NW, Atlanta, Georgia Source: Georgia State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
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...
Photo courtesy Studebaker National Museum. They range in status from iconic to mundane and in age from ancient to fairly modern. Some seem relatively straightforward while others appear almost out of...
Some old Ford factories get preserved. Others get torn down in anticipation of ambitious redevelopment projects. Though, as we see from an article in The Atlantic ‘s CityLab this week about the fate ...
Self-contained camper conversion on a 1971 Dodge Tradesman 300 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 25300 miles as I write this. Original Red Paint, looks more orange (#DT 3116), ...
I’m free, for the moment. So before they catch me and give me more happy pills, here comes weirdness. Above: Phil’s eight-legged Hudson. One could say it’s a Step-Step-Step-Step Down Hudson. Also, do...