Rust-free 1977 Plymouth Volare Premier station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: One Owner Garage Kept Low Mileage (estimated 130,000 & 1,000 Since Engine Rebuild 2014- 2...
Date: circa 1974 Location: LAX, Los Angeles, California Source: USC Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Four-speed 1970 Mercury Cyclone for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: clean title, the title says 77,000 actual miles, the odometer on the car shows 15k miles now as the cluster ha...
Date: February 1973 Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Source: Stanford Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photo via Los Angeles Times. If you haven’t been paying attention to Daniel Miller’s “Larger Than Life” docuseries on Big Willie Robinson for the Los Angeles Times, it’s worth diving into. Robinson, ...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Authenticated 1970 AMC Javelin Trans Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1 of 100 built in the Trans Am registry. Its the 99th car built in October of 1969 only 2 cars built i...
1978 Corvette print advertising. Magazine ads and brochure images courtesy Lov2XLR8.no. In 1978, Chevrolet marked a milestone anniversary for its celebrated sports car: The Corvette turned 25 years o...
Shag carpeted 1977 Dodge B200 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2nd Owner 1977 Dodge B200 From California Low Miles Only 51xxx Original Miles!!318 2 bbl Automatic Power Steerin...
Date: circa 1970s Location: Place Georges Clémenceau , Biarritz, France Source: via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: 1974 Ford Bronco sport, Ive had this Bronco for about 12 years. I bought it in Southern Calif. Now it is located in Pittsburg pennsylvania It has allways been garaged a...
Photos by the author. In the late 80s, I had the distinct displeasure of seeing a very nicely kept Opel GT meet its likely end. The GT lost a ball joint and the driver’s side front wheel came off at ...
1978 Chevrolet LUV advertisement. Images courtesy ProductionCars.com. Today, full-size pickups are the perennial best-sellers for Ford, Chevrolet and FCA. In the 1970s, the sedan and station wagon st...
Modified 1979 Chevrolet Impala for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This was my first car purchased from the original owner in 1996 from Whiteman Chevrolet. Interior: I have repla...
Date: August 1970 Location: Schuylkill Expressway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Richard Rosenberg, Temple University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photo by Dick Lasher. A towering plume of ash rises in the distance of the photo, swirling with menace and threat, lightning arcing within it. As if to accent the peril, the canyon of trees that fram...
From the seller’s description: This 1973 MGB GT is described as an honest and sorted chrome bumper example with under 64k original miles and four owners from new. The drivetrain, carbs, interior, flo...
Date: October 1975 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Source: Robert O. Foster, via Ball State University Digital Repository What do you see here?
Date: November 1972 Location: Shea Stadium, Queens, New York Source: Queens Library, via The Old Motor What do you see here?
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
Photo by Brian Bennett. Following up on a prior post about VW Beetles as art cars, John Heitmann at The Automobile and American Life spent some time this week discussing the one art car that made Vol...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. I wonder how many muscle car devotees conjured up their ultimate 1972 GTO from this ad during the model year. For anyone who construed the...
Date: December 1971 Location: Bingham Street, Dearborn, Michigan Source: Dearborn Historical Museum What do you see here?
Photo via Stroppe Performance. The Edsel brand had just three short years on this earth, all of which were consumed by a fight to remain in existence, so understandably no Edsel Racing Team ever form...
Date: 1976 Location: LAX, Los Angeles, California Source: Mike Mullen, via Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library What do you see here?