Restored 1949 Boles-Aero travel trailer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: After having spent much of its life in storage, over the past several years #10530 has been carefully ...
Older restoration 1949 International KB-5 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The “49er” was originally a delivery truck for Lawrence “Lum” Wanderer’s fuel, oil and coal business...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers, except where noted. In the mid- to late 1940s, starry-eyed inventors launched cars of tomorrow seemingly every other week, promising increased safety, better fu...
Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...
I had a love-hate relationship with this Ford 1.5-ton pickup truck. It took me from one end of Vermont to the other during the summer of 1955. My friends and I held on for our lives. Photos by Jonath...
Customized 1940 Nash Lafayette for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Found this sweetheart in Ontario Canada where the 2nd owner had it tucked away in storage since 1969. This car ...
As-raced 1947 Ford coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1947 Ford Coupe was built and raced by a club called the Gu Hun’s of the San Fernando Valley and raced from 1957...
Shorty 1946 Dodge DD4 2-ton truck for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1946 Dodge DD-4 2-Ton dually truck is about as unique as they come. Oversized in every way, it draws at...
Restored 1947 Harley-Davidson ServiCar for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1947 Harley Davidson Model G Servi-car. 45 ci flathead WLA, three speed transmission with reverse. Left...
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...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The midget motorsports craze of the 1930s and 1940s not only served as a launchpad for many drivers who’d go on to successful racing careers, it also ended up keeping ...
From the seller’s description: 1941 Lincoln Zephyr convertible V12 coupe . One of only 725 Zephyr convertibles ever produced. Car originally dark blue with Tan leather, now Darian Blue with Red Leath...
Photos via Ten-X Commercial. Somehow, despite the constant churn of Florida real estate, the decades-long dilapidation, and the drug-use problem that plagued the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fl...
Restored 1943 Dodge WC58 command car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 100 percent restored from ground up for the best military restoration garage in us. VIN Number 81680281. ...
As the monochrome-and-billet excesses of street rodding began to give way to the stripped down, back-to-basics aesthetic of traditional hot rodding in the late Eighties and into the Nineties, one voi...
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...
Photo by Jay Reed. Just before the end of World War II, vets started coming home en masse with visions of importing and driving the zippy little roadsters they saw overseas. A group of well-off men i...
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 ...
Images courtesy Boyle Racing Headquarters Foundation. At this point, nothing but four walls and a concrete floor remains of the Boyle Racing Team’s headquarters in a run-down neighborhood just northw...
Derham-bodied 1948 Cadillac 60S for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This Cadillac was ordered by the sales managers of Brown and Bigelow as a Christmas present for Charles A. War...
Photos courtesy Gooding & Company. The De Lorean is, of course, intrinsically linked to the Back to the Future franchise. Aside from its role as the time machine central to each film’s plot, it has t...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Going into business for yourself requires a sense of timing, a degree of skill in your chosen field, some (make that plenty) startup capital, and perhaps above all a bold vis...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
From the seller’s description: I am offering my own 1949 Cadillac Series 61 Club Coupe with Series 62 exterior trim. Exceptional restoration of a very original car. 3 owners since new. All paperwork ...