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Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. Four hundred ninety-four cubic centimeters may not sound like much, but compared to most of the putt-putt two-strokes that powered the cars at this past weekend’s Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction, the 1958 Read more

Among architects, this photo of the parking lot at Caesar’s Palace is fairly well known as one of the many pictures that Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown took during the Las Vegas trip that produced their book Learning from Read more

On February 17, 1911, the first self-starter was installed on a car. The 1912 Cadillac was the first car to feature the revolutionary invention of Charles Kettering, and would prove a major weapon in GM’s attempts to keep up with Read more

While this 1905 Pierce Great Arrow for sale on Hemmings.com may very well be one of the most historically significant cars in the history of the famed marque (it’s alleged to be the car that won the 1905 Glidden Tour, Read more

Inspired by the recent story on International Harvester’s concept minivans and station wagons, we thought we’d go in search of an IHC product that actually made it to production, and came up with this gorgeous 1979 International Harvester Scout II Read more

This one’s new to me, but then again, I never grew up in the Fifties. The Portal to Texas History has a handful of photos of March of Dimes volunteers selling balloons for donations to motorists in the streets of Read more

Those aren’t scales on this 1968 Morris Mini for sale on Hemmings.com; they’re pennies. And this is apparently no run-of-the-mill art car, rather one of three done up this way to promote the Beatles’ song “Penny Lane.” How fun would Read more

On February 14, 1896, Edward, Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII, became the first British royal to ride in a motorcar. It was likely a Daimler-engineered Panhard et Levassor, as the event was engineered by motorcar-industry promoter HJ Lawson Read more

I mean, who wouldn’t want free candy and puppies? And look, it has the Clownface Seal of Approval (TM). I’ll bet he has ice cream too. (via)