Paint? Who needs paint? Few cars look better in bare aluminum than the Lotus 11, particularly this 1956 Lotus 11 Series 1 Le Mans for sale on Hemmings.com, a car originally built for privateer racers...
Photos by the author. On my way to Hilton Head last month to attend the concours there I made a side trip up to Charleston to photograph this fabulous Plymouth. It’s a 1950 Suburban, a once fairly po...
Apparently the Avenue Bar, as seen in this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee photo that The Old Motor recently posted, still exists, but as the hotel bar for a national chain currently on the same co...
Could’ve sworn we previously ran these two images of San Francisco that Those Old Cars recently posted, but after a review of our voluminous (750-plus) carspotting archives, it appears not, so let’s ...
When I write or read about collectible Lincolns, I end up thinking wistfully about how Ford’s luxury division once produced cars that people aspired to own because, duh, they were Lincolns. In other ...
Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Raw speed, indeed, is the only thing that’ll get a racer to the finish line first – chrome don’t get you home, as they say – but developing a pro...
The last time we saw one of these crop up was about four years ago, and this 1956 SILA Bimboracer V-12 for sale on Hemmings.com has come along at an opportune time for anybody not sure what to put un...
The Lincoln Capri was introduced as the automaker’s upscale offering in 1952. The Capri was one of the finest cars offered in the 1950s and outsold its stablemate, the Cosmopolitan, until the latter’...
From Facebook reader Rich Kohr comes today’s carspotting photo, which depicts the former Rosensteel Museum in Gettysburg, sometime in the 1950s. Also known as the Round Top Museum, it appears the bui...
1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventiona...
Fortunately for us carspotters, photos of jampacked parking lots – like this one in the collection of photos that Joe Sokola provided us – tended to make for compelling visuals and so attracted photo...
Before the onslaught of RC Cola, Logan’s Main Street had a lot more neon signs, as we can see from this photo from ElectroSpark’s Flickr stream, taken a about a block or two east and a quarter-centur...
Big truck! Big truck is 1958 Dodge W300 Power Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. Big truck has four-wheel drive! Big truck has Isuzu diesel! Big truck has mechanical rebuild complete. Big truck come wit...
As we can see from the modern-day Street View of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and 23rd Street in Los Angeles, where this group of photos was taken in February 1956 (from the USC Digital L...