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We’ve always wondered why most people who hot rod a Nash (or Hudson) Metropolitan choose the V-8/Pro Street approach when there are plenty of ways to boost the performance of the stock Austin four-cylinder setup. Which is why we applaud Read more

Some days I choose cars for Hemmings Find of the Day because they have an interesting story to tell or because they’re in particularly good (or not so good) condition. Other days, like today, I choose them simply because they’re Read more

(Photo courtesy WBTW) Seeing a Plymouth GTX of any vintage is rare enough these days, some four decades after they were built; just 17,914 hardtops were built in its debut year of 1968. As of the morning of February 20, Read more

Apologies for the vertical nature of today’s street scene, but how often do we get a chance to post art (Art!) in our carspotting series? Robert Doisneau, legendary photojournalist, took this photo, which he titled Le Meute, in 1969 on Read more

In its aim to break the 1.5-liter land-speed record, MG went all out in 1957, hiring Stirling Moss and designing from scratch the EX181, a supercharged Twin Cam-powered pumpkin seed-shaped streamliner; the effort paid off with a 245.64 MPH record, Read more

While these two photos from the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections weren’t tagged with any identifying information, we were able to sleuth out a city and state – Baltimore, Maryland – based on the Belmont 5 telephone exchange and confirmed Read more

After reviewing the lots at this past weekend’s Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction, one might think that the depths of obscurity in the microcar scene have been sufficiently plumbed. Not so! MrScharroo’s Flickr stream constantly comes up with one-off, Eastern Read more

Like our old standby Charles Cushman, whoever’s behind the Cloud Cuckoo Land Flickr account seems to have traveled extensively over the years and made a vacation out of the western United States in 1965. Here we see they made sure Read more

It’s about time we returned to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to check in on its parking situation and, once again, we find that there appeared to be more cars than places to put them on the UNO campus, Read more