Photo courtesy Frank J. Zamboni and Co. As Google reminded us with its doodle today, January 16 is the birthdate of Frank Zamboni Jr. (1901-1988), who built his first eponymous ice resurfacing machine atop a surplus Jeep in 1949. David Read more
Are more car owners forgoing paint on their vehicles nowadays for a reason? Is paint that prohibitively expensive? Or are they just less concerned with looks as they are with how the car drives? We ask because this 1959 Cadillac Read more
Just try not to cringe at the near-misses at least once throughout these films of various intersections in Portland, Oregon, uploaded by Dan Haneckow of Cafe Unknown and pointed out to us by Gene Herman. We’ve embedded one below, marked Read more
As a mid-level car with a basic V-8 and with little glam or glitz to it, this 1962 Dodge Dart 330 two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com is the kind of car that can easily get overlooked – not powerful Read more
Dirty Secrets of Car DesignIf you want to design cars, and your talent, drive, and sense of humor are sufficient to get you into design school, instructors will warn you that the opportunity to design an entire car—as you see Read more
We’ve conversed a few times with Kent Mathieu of the Taipei Air Station blog since the last carspotting shot he sent us, and now he’s sent along another 1960s Taipei street scene, this one courtesy S. Swallom of DawgFlight.com. Kent Read more
It seems that every American truck that makes its way to northern Europe goes through some sort of transmogrification in the process, and this 1955 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com is no exception, having started out as a Belgian army Read more
The six-cylinder under the hood of this 1962 Mercury Comet station wagon-teardrop trailer combination for sale on Hemmings.com might be seen by some as a negative. But considering the intended purpose of such a combination – to travel the country Read more
One has to hand it to the staff of SIA, particularly for their ability to find complementary cars for their comparison reports. A great example: the comparo by Arch Brown in SIA #138, November 1993, which featured a pair of Read more
One would expect anybody capable of filling in the rear doors and swapping over a section of pickup cab sheetmetal to convert this 1954 Oldsmobile 88 for sale on Hemmings.com into an El Camino-style sedan pickup would have some decent Read more