One fine candidate for driveable dream status is this 1973 Imperial LeBaron four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. It’s got a few cosmetic issues, a little rust, and a handful of power accessori...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-bu...
The 2,000,000th Land Rover Defender. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By any measure, it was an unusual auction: A single lot was presented on stage at Bonhams’s Bond Street showroom in London, Eng...
Cover: Patrick Depailler’s Tyrell P34 at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. Photos courtesy of McKlein Publishing. Do you have a passion for racing in the 1950s through the 1970s? An interest in Formula One,...
1972 AMC Javelin AMX print ad, courtesy Production Cars. In 1971, Mark Donahue delivered American Motors’s first Trans-Am championship behind the wheel of a Javelin AMX. The manufacturer wasted no ti...
Ronan at Ran When Parked recently came across this postcard scene of a ski resort parking lot somewhere in the Alps, and with a little digging, we think we’ve pinpointed it as Serre-Chevalier in the ...
Pontiac’s mid-engine, rear-drive, two-seat Fiero debuted for the 1984 model year, and consumers immediately began asking for a more powerful engine than the 2.5-liter “Iron Duke” four-cylinder found ...
Photos courtesy Building the Legend, except where noted. Generally the rarer a car was to begin with, the greater likelihood that somebody will eventually replicate it. Indeed, two reproductions set ...
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’...
You know you’re a certifiable car nut when you start buying parts for vehicles that you don’t even own, but would like to…someday. Like purchasing a pair of jeans two sizes too small in the hopes of ...
Spend enough time, and one could probably compile a complete set of photos of the Las Vegas strip from every month of every year in the latter half of the 20th century, all through individual tourist...
In 1971, Chevrolet introduced a new trim level into its C/K pickup series. Though hardly luxurious by today’s standards, the Cheyenne trim included things like additional padding in the seats; more a...
1966 Dodge Charger. Photos courtesy FCA. If ever there was a car with an identity crisis, it was the B-body Dodge Charger. Introduced in 1966 as a sporty personal luxury car, the Charger would evolve...
1914 Regal Lil’ Old Timers model; image by author. Scale models have been a big part of the collector-car hobby for nearly as long as the hobby has been around. Over the decades, many a life-size car...
Pininfarina badge on a Ferrari 330. Photo by Stephen Hennessey. Over its 85-year history, Italy’s Pininfarina has been on the cutting edge of automotive design, penning memorable automobiles for the ...
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...
Introduced in 1940, Buick’s Series 50 Super models featured sleek exterior styling and an interior that provided seating for up to six adults. One range up from the entry-level Series 40 Special mode...
Photo by Vincent Lammin. Other highways came before it. Others stretched farther. Others probably conducted more traffic throughout the country. But no highway gets more recognition or praise than Ro...
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...
Photo by the author. It is well known that before World War II, Ford Motor Company was never a well-organized corporation, and that in the wake of Edsel Ford’s death in 1943, things spiraled so nearl...
Kott Motorcycles cafe racer based upon a 1973 Honda CB750. Photos by author unless otherwise noted. Since the plunge in motorcycle sales that occurred from 2008 to 2009, the powersports industry has ...
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...
While this 1926 Ford Model T lakes modified for sale on Hemmings.com was inspired by the Bo Jones lakes modified, somehow it looks to have better proportions and a sleeker profile. Could be the atten...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Built for NASCAR homologation purposes, Plymouth’s 1970-only Superbird proved to be a tough sell to consumers. By the mid-1970s, most dealers were d...
Photo by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. With the recent passage of H.R. 22, also known as the FAST Act, replica car makers now have a clear path forward for building turnkey cars, which means...