New York City, 1973
Date: December 1973 Location: New York City, New York Source: Marty Lederhandler photo, via NPR /AP What do you see here?
Date: December 1973 Location: New York City, New York Source: Marty Lederhandler photo, via NPR /AP What do you see here?
Eight-cylinder 1937 Chrysler Airflow coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This spectacular 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-17 Airflow Coupe is just one of the few remaining origina...
Photos courtesy John Olsson. Everybody remembers the day like it was yesterday. Careening out of control, the Fiat 600 smashed through the doors of the 1955 GM Motorama in Boston. Nobody was hurt, th...
Date: October 1975 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Temple University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Restored 1959 Buick Invicta convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very rare restored Buick. This car received a frame off restoration and is rust free. It has a rebuilt...
Restored 1971 Plymouth Fury III for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Barn find from Wisconsin with restoration started in 2010. Original 360 automatic engine with less than 77,000...
Image courtesy IMDCB. You’ve just robbed a bank. Presuming nobody died in the process and the bank is fully insured, congratulations. The obvious question — what car you’re gonna buy with all that mo...
Superformance’s Shelby Daytona coupe replica. Photo courtesy Superformance. Despite a number of pleas from the Specialty Equipment Market Association to move along regulations that would allow replic...
Date: circa 1960s Location: First and Cherry Streets, Macon, Georgia Source: Georgia State University Digital Libraries collections What do you see here?
Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. As a salesman traveling all over the country, Jim Jackson had plenty of seat time looking through a windshield out over vast ribbons of asphalt. By the mid-Seven...
Bill Hirsch in 2007. Photo by David Traver Adolphus. William S. “Bill” Hirsch, founder of Bill Hirsch Automotive Products in Newark, New Jersey, died on October 23 at age 90. Bill was a lifelong car ...
Date: May 1981 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Source: Northeastern University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
An aerial view of the Buick City site. Image courtesy Google Maps. Buick City, a massive industrial site in Flint, Michigan, has been largely vacant since the last of its manufacturing plants were sh...
Photo by Danny Taylor. Just a short year ago, I had never heard of the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR). But then I stumbled onto an article detailing a proposed 2018 “revival” running of the GAM...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
Date: circa 1950s Location: 3970 East Broad Street, Whitehall, Ohio Source: via ColumbusNeighborhoods.org What do you see here?
Photo by Bud Juneau. In many of the obituaries of retail giant Sears penned this month in response to the company’s bankruptcy filing, it’s been noted that the company sold everything, even automobil...
Date: circa 1970s Location: Boston, Massachusetts Source: Northeastern University Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
The Dodge Concept II minivan limo conversion. Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. From Hemmings’ old friend Joe Bortz comes this velour-covered glimpse into a limousine conversion concept, circa 1984-1985. Th...
From the seller’s description: This 1957 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket 88 convertible is a multiple show winner and a major head-turner! I purchased this car ten years ago in Florida, and since moving it ...
Restoration-ready 1978 Dodge Ramcharger 4×4 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a rare D-code 440 Ram Charger 4-wheel drive. Last year of the big-block. This is a ...
Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...
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...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...
Date: 1961 Location: New York City, New York Source: Simpson Kalisher photo, via lastpictureshow I have questions. Presumably the taxi sign did not belong to the convertible in the foreground, rather...