A former fire truck converted to a car hauler, it’s a 1966 Ford F600 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This truck has been stored for the last 10 years and will need some brake...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
Eric Szabo had a lot going for him, according to the few English-language accounts we’ve been able to find of his career. Moscow School of Industrial Art graduate; designer for ZIS/ZIL and NAMI; depu...
An actual commercial vehicle, not a tribute. It’s a 1949 GMC FC101 Panel Truck for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: GMC 1949 Model FC-101 Half Ton Panel Truck. A true survivor wit...
It’s a 1973 Citroen AK 400 for sale on Hemmings.com (via the same seller offering the stretchy Citroen HY van highlighted in a previous FOTD ). From the seller’s description: Top quality, body-off ch...
It’s a 1940 GMC Fire Truck for sale on Hemmings.com, Dalmatian not included. From the seller’s description: Originally used in a small southern Colorado town where it got minimal use and great care. ...
Photo Credit: Richard Lentinello A decade prior to the last Checker rolling off the assembly line on July 12, 1982, this 1971 Aerobus made automotive history as the longest regular production car eve...
Drawings by George Lawson, via Cooper Hewitt. The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly m...
Double decker bus? Double decker bus! It’s a 1981 Bristol Bus for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: HERES A UNIQUE ITEM!! 1981 BRISTOL DOUBLE DECKER BUS IMPORTED FROM LONDON AFTER ...
One of nine coachbuilt examples made for President Harry S. Truman, this 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Limousine is for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Coachwork by Henney Motor Co. ...
Photo credit: Morris Commercial The Morris name is set to return, in the form of a new Morris Commercial van. The Morris JE is an all-electric commercial van with styling cues that recall the classic...
Period photos likely via Michelin, Biel Technicum. Technical solutions often appear that only make sense in certain windows of time. Take, for instance, the fax machine, relevant until suddenly every...
A pair of trucks will finish up their auctions today on Hemmings Auction s . A 1942 Ford Commercial 3- t on t ruck that has proven to be a piece of Canadian history and a 1978 Chevy C20 that’s built ...
Anybody living along the Lincoln Highway, keep an eye out for an UltraVan making its way westward. * Some of the mutant cars on the playa at Burning Man are simple conglomerations, others are stateme...
Unrestored 1979 GMC Captain Hook wrecker for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: If you are searching for a powerful wrecker that is extremely performance oriented then look no furth...
Civil Defense-equipped 1955 GMC Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a classic 1955 GMC that was a part of our country’s history during the Cold War. The truck ha...
Photo courtesy of the National Automobile Museum. The organizers at the National Automobile Museum invite you to join them this Thursday to talk about a unique but iconic piece of automotive history,...
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...
Jeep’s Surrey model didn’t form in a pink-lined vacuum. Rather, as CJ3B.info points out, Toledo took a cue from the 100 or so Jeeps that served the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco. Compared to the new ...
Brooks Stevens’s Sceptre concept, designed for Studebaker. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. From its start as a manufacturer of horse-drawn wagons to its demise as an independent automaker compet...
1978 Plymouth Fury Police Pursuit (top); 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (bottom). Images by the author. During the summer of 1978, Foreigner’s Hot Blooded hit the airwaves, mixing it up with tunes from th...
Its hard-working days are over, but this ’53 Chevy has a new job. Photos by the author. Walt Disney World, as we discovered on a recent trip, is filled with Chevrolets. It’s not just the Chevrolet Te...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...