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1979 Honda Civic Wagon. Images courtesy Specialty Cars Limited. By the late 1970s, Japanese automaker Honda had hit its stride in the United States, earning a reputation for affordable, dependable and fuel-efficient cars. As with many other imports, Hondas were Read more

Let’s take on a bit of a challenge today, shall we? Normally, we try to focus on the 1950s and 1960s for our carspotting photos, figuring that there’s much more diversity of automobiles from that period, but this photo of Read more

After helping the Allies win World War II, the U.K.’s Bristol Aeroplane Company decided to branch out into the production of automobiles. Its first product, the 400 of 1947, was a sports car for the connoisseur, borrowing heavily from late Read more

Mid-Coast School of Technology students and teacher Dan Dishner look on as OHTM Ground Vehicle Conservator Warren Kincaid gives their restoration a run. Photo courtesy of Owls Head Transportation Museum. Recognizing that we’re all only the custodians of the vehicles Read more

Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. Dale Bell and Charlie Glick might not have the same name recognition among auto historians as do Barney Oldfield and Harry A. Miller, but the duos do share something in common: Both conspired Read more

All photos courtesy George Pope. Fifty years ago, if you wanted to take a hulking Model AA school bus to the Model A Ford Club of America’s annual convention halfway across the country, there was really only one way to Read more

Photography by the author. Once I got my first car in the mid-1980s, I soon realized any vehicle that was 20 years old needed parts regularly, so my car show activities over the ensuing years would have to also include Read more