Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1980
Date: circa 1980 Location: possibly Fredericton, New Brunswick Source: via jacdurac What do you see here?
Date: circa 1980 Location: possibly Fredericton, New Brunswick Source: via jacdurac What do you see here?
Drawings by George Lawson, via Cooper Hewitt. The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly m...
Date: circa late 1950s Location: Central Avenue, Great Falls, Montana Source: Andrew Finch collection, via Kate McCourt What do you see here?
Unrestored 1942 Plymouth Special Deluxe P14C convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This particular example was purchased in 1942 by the original owner for his daughter ...
Date: 1964 Location: Mount Snow, Dover, Vermont Source: via Travel Vermont What do you see here?
Date: November 1981 Location: South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas Source: via Corpus Christi Caller Times What do you see here?
Date: March 1970 Location: near Wallops Island, Virginia Source: NASA (via Jim and Chester’s Garage ) What do you see here?
Date: December 1961 Location: overlooking Putnam Street, Detroit, Michigan Source: Win Brunner, via Detroit Public Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
Date: 1974 Location: SE 4th Street and SE 14th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: Linda Gammell, via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
No matter how much we may like cars, do any of us really enjoy going to a dealership? Haggling, getting sucked into the four-square method, politely chuckling at the dealer’s bad jokes, all when we r...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
First off, props to Wray Schelin for taking on a circa-1945 Virgil Exner design as the inspiration for one of his student metalshaping projects. We’ve seen other such projects in the past – for insta...
Photos and images via Wray Schelin. Metalshaper Wray Schelin says he can teach an absolute beginner in metalshaping how to form a car fender in just a week, and he’s decided to back that claim up by ...
Date: 1960 Location: Hans-Heinrich-Ehrler-Platz, Bad Mergentheim, Germany Source: via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
Photo by Kurt Williams. Though the California Coastal Commission has backed off of its plan to ban off-highway vehicles from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area entirely, the county air ...
Airbagged 1953 Kaiser Manhattan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1953 Kaiser Manhatten 4 Door with a restored stock body and everthing else modified. There were 15,450 1953 – ...
Over in Italy, a lifelong Miata fan opened a hotel that gives guests access to an impressive collection of Mazda MX-5s, as Top Gear recently wrote. Guests are comprehensively outnumbered by cars. The...
Date: April 1976 Location: Welsh Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Frank Merrick, via Free Library of Philadelphia What do you see here?
Date: April 1978 Location: Third Avenue and Battery Street, Seattle, Washington Source: Werner Leggenhager, via Seattle Public Library Special Collections Online What do you see here?
Not counting horseless carriages and other early automobiles that placed their engines under and behind-ish the driver, the Pontiac Fiero is often hailed as the first mid-engine American production c...
Photo by Rennett Stowe. I’m glad to see from the comments to our most recent Open Diff that I’m not the only one plagued by background anxiety over unfinished projects. If y’all like, I could work to...
Date: circa 1980s Location: West 4th Avenue and West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
Date: March 1975 Location: Anaheim, California Source: via Anaheim Public Library What do you see here?
Date: 1982 Location: 1st Avenue and East 15th Street, New York City, New York Source: via NYC Nostalgia What do you see here?
The “bucket of bolts” 1977 Dodge Aspen station wagon had so many squeaks it was hard to talk. My wife, Grace, and daughters, Jenne (left) and Tori, endured its bone-jarring ride and rattles. Photos b...