Cars are meant to be driven, and this 1971 BMW 2002 for sale on Hemmings.com just begs to have some miles put on it. With a non-stock drivetrain, it’s certainly not suited to becoming a trailer queen or investment vehicle, Read more
While Wooster, Ohio-based Gerstenslager is still in business today, stamping sheetmetal for the auto industry, the collector car community knows the company mostly for its moving truck bodies and bookmobiles. Unsurprisingly, then, the Wooster Public Library had their own Gerstenslager-built Read more
If you’ve spent enough time looking at cars on the Internet as we have, you’ve by now certainly come across a photo of several cars stacked in a row in front of a liquor store (below, courtesy Stiffspeed) and wondered Read more
If that Toyota pickup were a four-wheel-drive version, then it could very well have been the one I went to look at when I was 16 and scouting around for my first ride. I didn’t buy it because the frame Read more
Over at Road and Track’s blog, Noonz posted this photo of a guy named Rench posing with a Chevrolet-based eight-door airport limousine sometime in the 1970s in New Mexico. Apparently the Chevrolet was then in use, or retired from use, Read more
Rooting through the old SIA files, I came across this photo submitted by reader Russ Turner of San Francisco. Russ wrote that he spotted the junkyard while driving through Avenal, California, but was unable to speak with anybody at the Read more
When the Barris-built Batmobile sold for $4.62 million last month, it became the most valuable TV or movie car in the world, taking that title (by a mere $11,500) from a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that was used onscreen in Read more
While we did once previously run this Charles Cushman photo of Der Watzmann as seen from Berchtesgaden, taken in May of 1964, that was about five years ago and we didn’t run it as part of our carspotting series, so Read more
What happens to old cars that wind up in junkyards? Some of them get scavenged for parts to restore other cars; some that are too far gone get sent to the crusher. Those in between, at least in Spain, may Read more
Now that we’ve shaken loose all those monorail-related street scenes, let’s go back to some historic street scenes from the rest of the Emerald City, such as this photo of Aurora Avenue headed into the Battery Street Tunnel, taken in Read more