Pushbutton convertible 1960 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very Good condition 34,580 Original Miles 4 Brand New Tires New Convertible Top and Hydraulics Wh...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum, except where noted. Of the three cars in those famous June 1953 photographs of the first Corvettes coming off the Flint, Michigan, assembly line, only one st...
Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. It’s easy to conceive of history as a straight-line narrative, in which one thing inevitably leads to another and so on to create our modern world. Excep...
Chevrolet’s 1958 Bel Air Impala convertible. Photo courtesy General Motors, brochure scans from author’s collection. During the late 1940s and through to the mid-1960s, sales of convertibles were rob...
This 1936 Pierce-Arrow is one of three in the JAB Collection coming up for sale June 15. All photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions, LLC. In the past 16 years, if you were after a part or a project car...
Date: August 1989 Location: Malibu, California Source: Pepperdine Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: For your consideration is an absolutely stunning and rare 1961 Dodge Dart Phoenix 2 door Coupe . This ain’t your grandmothers 61. She is equipped with the rebuilt origi...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
Photo by Chris Bojanower. As one of our commenters pointed out, really, anything that happens in a demolition derby is by definition crazy. After all, bashing cars into other cars until they no longe...
Wisco-converted 1975 Cadillac Eldorado shooting brake. From the seller’s description: Rare and unique factory ordered through select dealers, this is a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado Shooting Brake (2 door S...
The first gas station I remember looked like this one outside of Ft. Worth, Texas. Dad filled up his ’37 Nash every Sunday morning, a 15-minute ritual. I liked the smell of leaded gasoline. Photos by...
When a sprinkler pipe burst at the National Automotive History Collection in the Detroit Public Library last February, it looked like the NAHC would be out of commission for about six months. This pa...
Date: 1979 Location: 16th Street, Denver, Colorado Source: Nathaniel Lieberman, Denver Public Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
The world’s best-known De Lorean will star in the upcoming Petersen exhibit, “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Automobiles and othe...
Date: April 1966 Location: unknown Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
Date: April 1970 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: A true time capsule! All original Pontiac 1973 Grand Prix Model “J” . 30,197mile “Survivor” in spectacular original Acrillic Laquer Regatta Blue with White Cordova top ...
Heidi Hetzer fills up Hudo , her 1930 Hudson Great Eight, at Hemmings world headquarters during her 2014-’17 drive around the world. Photo by Crystal Conwill. When we met Heidi Hetzer a couple years ...
Photo by Chris Bojanower. Like pretty much every other motorsport, demolition derbies have rules and they have winners and losers. As a result, demo derby competitors spend an inordinate amount of ti...
Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...
From the seller’s description: 1959 Pontiac Catalina Vista Hardtop . Immaculate, all original “Survivor” show car. 20,280 miles. 2 time POCI “Gold” Survivor Points Judged category 2001 & 2011. Owned ...
Reno, like Vegas, was once awash in neon signs, and while some still stand, there’s a concern about preserving those that don’t — or those that soon won’t — as Holly Hutchings of KUNR recently report...
Image courtesy Google Street View, August 2018. Five years ago, the future for the sales and service building at the former Ford Highland Park assembly plant — where the company first implemented its...
Image courtesy Google Maps. While it’s not particularly fair to say that racing hasn’t taken place at the Milwaukee Mile in recent years, the drag racing and sports car club racing that the track hos...
The Beechcraft Plainsman, had it been built, wouldn’t have just been ahead of its time, in some respects it would have been ahead of our time as well. The specs were pretty well laid out in an articl...