Since our recent posts on Route 66 and the alternate cross-country routes y’all suggested, we’re paying more attention to the old route marker signs, such as the three for U.S. 91, U.S. 93, and U.S. ...
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...
Mitch Medford’s Zombie Mustang. Photo courtesy of Mitch Medford, Bloodshed Motors. A battery-powered Mustang, a pair of movie cars, some hot rods and a few muscle cars rounded out the year’s top stor...
Photo by Matthew Ragan. With another year in the record books, it’s time once again to dust off the crystal ball with an oil-stained shop rag and peer into the future to divine five predictions for t...
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...
One of American Motors’ tributes to the legendary and durable straight-six that went on to power just about every AMC-built vehicle until the company’s end, this 1964 Rambler Classic Typhoon has surv...
1970 Yenko Deuce. Photos by John Hollansworth, Jr., courtesy Mecum Auctions. Most people mark 1972 as the death of the (first) muscle car era, but if insurance companies had their way, it would have ...
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely ...
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Arguably influenced by the Jaguar E-type and a runaway sales success from the moment it hit U.S. shores, Datsun’s Z car inspired a generatio...
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 ...
Does any vehicle more exemplify the Choo-Choo Customs excess of the Eighties than this 1984 Chevrolet El Camino IROC-S for sale on Hemmings.com? It’s got the Camaro nose, of course, and along with th...
Photos courtesy Goodguys. While pretty much anybody else would start small, the first car show Gary Meadors put together attracted several hundred street rods, and in the decades since, Meadors – who...
Earliest proposal by ex-GM designer George Lawson was called the Tin Goose, had pivoting, skirted front fenders. Tin Goose sketches appeared in early ads (below), but later ads showed Alex Tremulis’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...
In today’s world of meaningless and truly stupid marketing campaigns, it’s refreshing to look back at how the old Detroit PR firms promoted their clients’ products. They smartly focused on the many p...
Sometimes one really strong aspect of a car can totally redeem it when other features might not look as attractive. Take, for instance, this 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five limousine for sale on...
While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Ja...
Driving halfway across the country in a new car makes for a great time, but to really get the adrenaline going try it in a 50-year-old truck that you’ve just bought and that hasn’t run much in the la...
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the ow...
Photos Courtesy: Jeff Koch. It started innocently enough–with a boy and his bicycle. “In 1970, my bike was a Raleigh Chopper. It was orange and black–the same color as this Oldsmobile. I’ve kept it a...
1966 Sunbeam Tiger. Photo Courtesy: David LaChance. If you’re among the many who got to know Andy Rooney through his weekly commentaries on 60 Minutes, you might describe him as irascible. Fellow CBS...
Pride of Prescott – 1931 Seagrave Ladder Truck. Photo by Jeff Koch Professional vehicles, particularly fire apparatus, lead a charmed life. Or so we think. We typically see them being constantly wash...
1964 Mercury Comet durability run. All images are frame grabs from video below. This video produced for Lincoln-Mercury documents 40 days and nights of continuous punishment that a group of 1964 Come...