When we left off last time, the car was running better, I had removed all of the trim, lights, locks, handles, and side glass, and it was headed out to Syracuse, New York, to spend some time at my un...
Motor Medic doubled my 1951 Mercury’s oil mileage. But my teen brain reasoned it was cheaper to buy 10-cent cans of oil and store them in the trunk. “Stop that, you’re stinking up the neighborhood!” ...
Date: 1966 Location: The 405, Los Angeles, California Source: George R. Fry, via UCLA Library Special Collections What do you see here?
Photos courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Brandon Anderson didn’t come up short for superlatives when describing the latest donation to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. As well he should: The ...
Date: March 1958 Location: Ellis and Taylor streets, San Francisco, California Source: Robert Durden Color Slide Collection, via San Francisco Public Library What do you see here?
Date: December 1964 Location: Urey Hall parking lot, UCSD, San Diego, California Source: Charles H. Graves, via UCSD Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photo by the author. In the annals of automotive history lie the names of thousands of dead carmakers. While most of them remain long-forgotten, some still carry enough cachet for occasional attempts...
Date: November 1964 Location: Cahuenga Pass, Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California Source: via Los Angeles Public Library What do you see here?
A rendering of what part of the proposed museum would look like. The plan includes a functional drive-in restaurant patterned on Burge’s, one of the turnarounds on the Modesto cruise route of the ’50...
Slant six-powered 1980 Chrysler LeBaron for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The early owner of this car was Georgia Belle and decals were applied after the car was painted severa...
Refurbished 1964 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 64064 original miles (700 on new motor) Factory air Color: Viper Red Runs great and a real pleasure to dri...
Refurbished 1968 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 64064 original miles (700 on new motor) Factory air Color: Viper Red Runs great and a real pleasure to dri...
Nothing lasts forever. For more than 80 years, Chrysler executives – through one corporate parent after another – have refrained from resurrecting the Airflow name despite its intrinsic value and the...
Over the holidays, it seems some thieves in Moscow decided to treat themselves to a Christmas present: Stalin’s ZiS-115 armored limousine. Local media say the vehicle belonged to the head of security...
“The is sorted — safely cared for (and regularly improved) by its current owner, its wings spread so that it may fly through foul Flagstaff winters, where only vehicles with tire chains dare tread,” ...
Date: 1968 Location: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York Source: George Zimbel, via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
All images via Packard Proving Grounds. During World War II, Packard opened up its proving grounds in Shelby Township, outside of Detroit, for testing one of the few vehicles at the time sturdier and...
Hemmings archive photo. It goes without saying that the collector car hobby is built on nostalgia and memories. And yet, young or old, our memories are not infallible. Individually speaking, that is....
Date: 1983 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Source: Robert Alan Clayton What do you see here?
Date: 1974 Location: 4th St. SE and 13th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: Linda Gammell, via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Long before the OPEC gas crisis of the 1970s, Americans who owned cars in the 1940s were limited to the amount of gasoline they could buy due to the consequences of World War II. Starting in early 19...
Unrestored 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: While it was considered a ‘family car’ because of the full size and 4 doors, this 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 is ...
Date: November 1983 Location: Sunrise Mall, Corpus Christi, Texas Source: via Caller-Times What do you see here?
Reproduction body 1957 Byers SR100 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: newly built Byers SR100 body fitted to a modified Corvette C3 chassis. This package was prepared with the f...
Date: May 1962 Location: Turk and Leavenworth streets, San Francisco, California Source: San Francisco Public Library on Flickr What do you see here?