Modified 1978 Cadillac Seville for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: MOTOR Engine: Olds 350- bore .030, custom Jans supercharged pistons, crank .010 / .010 nitrited, Mellings high ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Why Dr. W.H. Crothers stuffed his 1901 De Dion-Bouton away on the second floor of a barn for decades, one can only speculate, but the fact that he did set the stage for a For...
Photo by Alexander Rabb. In larger cities, automobile rows stretched as long as a mile, chock-full of automobile dealerships with their neon ablaze, service stations with rotating signs, and parts st...
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 ...
Date: April 1977 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Source: found photo via Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1964 Mercury Park Lane Convertible , 62,107 Original miles, top of the line Mercury Parklane Convertible. 390 Automatic, Power Windows, Power Seats, Original Convertibl...
Police package 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Genuine police package 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury with original 440 engine and HD 727 trans. These cars ar...
Date: March 1957 Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, via MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
Louis Meyer (left), the front page of the World-Independent (center), and Will Overhead (right). Consult any compendium of race results and you’ll find that Louis Meyer, then 28, won the Indianapolis...
From the seller’s description: 1949 Chevrolet 3600 3/4 Ton Pickup VIN: 5GRB3009 Don’t miss out on this beautifully restored classic 1949 Chev 3600 3/4 Ton Pickup! Attention paid to original color (Fo...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Oberhof, Germany Source: via Vault of the Atomic Space Age What do you see here?
Bob Nixon (left) with Dick Teague. Photos courtesy the Pat Foster Collection, except where noted. Dick Teague may have whipped up an early sketch for the AMC Gremlin on an airline barf bag, but the t...
Date: September 1985 Location: Columbus, Ohio Source: Dick Garrett, via Grandview Heights Public Library I may or may not have been there to see this, so in addition to a six-year-old twerp, what do ...
From the seller’s description: West Coast Classics are proud to present a beautiful example of this absolutely stunning and fully loaded and beautifully restored as when new 1971 Ford Ranchero 500 Pi...
Ours is a hectic, fast-paced world, in which we can only pause to research miscellany for so long before it’s time to meet another deadline. That’s why, even though we’re sure we’ve seen this wheelco...
John Haynes, during his RAF days. Photo courtesy Haynes Publishing. When young John Haynes placed a classified ad to sell his home-built Austin 7 Special, he never could have imagined that this simpl...
Date: circa 1970 Location: Irvine, California Source: UC Irvine Libraries, via Calisphere What do you see here?
Joe Strayhorn in Corvair #6000. Photo courtesy Dave Newell. In the months leading up to the final day of production for the Chevrolet Corvair, General Motors fielded calls from dealers, executives, a...
From the seller’s description: 1964 Chrysler 300 2 door hardtop , original survivor with one repaint in the original color years ago, Silver Turquoise Poly # 12648. Absolutely NO Rust. Chrome on fron...
One of three limos built for Packard executives in 1941, the car’s trunk housed an enormous air conditioning unit. My brother tried to sell the Packard at the 1972 Hershey, Pennsylvania, classic car ...
Unmodified 1972 Buick Gran Sport convertible , wearing what’s said to be the original paint, for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Well-maintained original Buick GS350 Convertible ...
Colorado’s Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway. Photo by Jeffrey Beall. Though it may provide a vista here and there, America’s interstate highway system was designed with speed and efficienc...
Date: May 1969 Location: Interstate 75, Atlanta, Georgia Source: J.C. Lee, via Georgia State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Recently serviced 1988 Ford Escort RS Turbo for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is an exceptional 1988 Ford Escort RS Turbo. Recently acquired out of a private collection wh...
Photo supplied. Recently, Howard Shaw bought himself a 1948 Buick Roadmaster convertible that he discovered through Hemmings. Congrats, Howard! He plans to pick it up in the near future, so, just lik...