From the seller’s description: For sale is a very special 1967 Buick Skylark . From 1967 thru 1969 Buick built the “California” GS coupe, but in 1967 they were only available through California Buick...
Photo courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Over the years, cab companies have sent entire fleets of Checker taxis — worn out to the brink of literally falling apart, rusted, and scavenged for p...
1913 Stutz Series B Bearcat. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1911, the Ideal Motor Car Company — renamed Stutz in 1912 — demonstrated the durability of its products by finishing 11th in the inau...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia Source: Georgia State University Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
Date: February 1961 Location: Pelissier Street, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Source: Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive What do you see here?
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Bruce Meyers sees the Texas DMV’s ban on homebuilt cars as far more than just a threat to the Meyers Manx and fiberglass-bodied dune buggi...
From the seller’s description: Beautiful 1959 Edsel Corsair 2DRHT . California car and is ready for go or show. Very nice vehicle and I don’t think you will find a better one for the price. Runs, dri...
Bermuda Blue 1964 Oldsmobile 98 convertible , with a single repaint, for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a sweet cruiser. Turquoise w/ white leather interior, one high qu...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
Date: 1970s Location: Croton-Harmon station, Croton-on-Hudson, New York Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
Date: 1976 Location: Park and 155th, Harvey, Illinois Source: Charles William Brubaker photo, via University of Illinois at Chicago What do you see here?
Unrestored 1984 Oldsmobile Toronado for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Offered for sale is a stunning all original 1984 Oldsmobile Toronado Limited Edition. Painted in brown wit...
Jim Benjaminson’s grandfather, Andrew Widme, purchased his first car in July of 1912 – a used 1910 Mitchell built in Racine, Wisconsin. Grandpa Widme paid $700 for the car (which sold new for around ...
Date: 1960 (above), 1961 (below) Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait Source: brett jordan What do you see here?
Our recent story on the dubious legend of how Germany got its silver auto racing color got us looking for original source materials to see if we could establish timelines for not just Germany’s natio...
Date: January 1958 Location: Reyburn Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Temple University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures.org. The American convertible, as we all know, died after Cadillac churned out 14,000 Eldorados in 1976 and wealthy speculators latc...
Date: March 1956 Location: Park Avenue West, Ontario, Ohio Source: via Columbus Neighborhoods What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1955 Buick Super in incredible condition; this is a California car with zero rust and it drives amazingly great. Desirable options on this Super which include power bra...
From the seller’s description: 1962 Mercury Monterey Custom , 352 V8 with three speed automatic trans. PB, PS. This was a CA car that I purchased from the grandson of the original owners, I brought i...
Image courtesy Google Street View. It first opened as yet another garage that sold Model Ts, one of probably tens of thousands like it across the country, and for almost 100 years, the little dealers...
Date: August 1970 Location: Goose Lake, Leoni Township, Michigan Source: via Vintage Trailers What do you see here?
Photos by denizen24. Relations between the United States and Peru took a huge nosedive when General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized power via coup in October 1968, and didn’t seem to improve much during...
From the seller’s description: Up for your consideration is a rare example of a 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo highly desirable factory Black with Red Interior. It has only 19k miles on the odometer and ...