Long ago, we established that Charles Cushman, provider of so many of our street scenes, owned a red 1938 Ford and a gold 1940 Lincoln Zephyr, two cars that appeared quite often in his photographs. In later years, there’s hardly Read more
The Germany-based seller of this 1939 Fiat 508C pickup on Hemmings.com believes it was converted into a pickup when it was new, though we could certainly believe that it was converted during the war as well. In either case, it’s Read more
Photo courtesy Jenkins Competition One of drag racing’s legends, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, who was known just as much for his innovations and mechanical ability as for his infamous demeanor, died today at the age of 81. Anybody who’s ever spoken Read more
Ran across these four photos of the parking lots surrounding Los Angeles International Airport on the USC Digital Library photo archive (1, 2, 3, 4), and while the descriptions note different dates for the four photos, we believe they were Read more
John Lloyd, a.k.a. Hugo 90, shares many a wondrous thing with us through the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, but none so mysterious as this engine he spotted at the Pioneer Auto Show in Murdo, South Dakota. John knows nothing about Read more
Silver Auctions and Reno’s Hot August Nights fell out publicly and protractedly in 2010 and 2011 (see Hemmings Classic Car issues #81, 82 and 83), with Silver moving out of town to Carson City for a couple of years while Read more
Another great pair of images posted recently to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread by swi66 are these two of traffic flowing past Chicago’s McCormick Place while construction was going on. Given the ages of the cars Read more
Maybe it’s just the fact that we’re Rust Belt natives and have grown up around cars rotting out before quitting their first decade, but the mere fact that a car can remain as well preserved after half a century as Read more
That is perhaps the longest headline for any SIA article we’ve yet seen, but it all fits into John Matras’s plan for writing up what could perhaps be the ultimate fin-era Dodge, a 1959 Custom Royal powered by the dual-quad Read more
The Renault 4CV made its production debut in 1947, a result of clandestine design and prototyping efforts during the war predicting post-war demand for an affordable yet modern automobile. The cars earned their original nickname la motte de beurre, or the Read more