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Ford’s Highland Park plant. Photo by jacdupree. Today, the former Ford complex in Highland Park, Michigan – considered by many to be the birthplace of modern manufacturing – is largely vacant, while some buildings have been razed to make way Read more

There were no electric fans or high-capacity aftermarket radiators in 1933. Image courtesy of Flick user Doc Searls. One advantage of the modern automobile is this: Its owner need not worry about summer driving with the air conditioner on, even Read more

Photos courtesy Petersen Museum. Following the response to a recent article discussing the pending sell-off of a portion of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s holdings and the museum’s transformation, Terry Karges, the museum’s executive director, offered some clarification regarding the cars Read more

Petersen Museum vault. Photo courtesy Petersen Museum. Following the response to a recent article discussing the pending sell-off of a portion of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s holdings and the museum’s transformation, Terry Karges, the museum’s executive director, offered some clarification Read more

Thankfully, the British number plate system allows relatively simple vehicular tracking over time, otherwise how would we have known that this photo we recently came across online depicts both John Lennon’s 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V and George Harrison’s Radford-ized 1966 Read more

For the French car fanatics out there, we thought we’d post this photo of the parking lot at Le Mont Saint-Michel, right off the coast of France, taken in 1965. The parking lot, located on a man-made causeway, has apparently Read more