George Devol, a largely self-taught inventor who came up with and patented the first robotic arm, died last Thursday at age 99. Born on February 20, 1912, in Louisville, Kentucky, Devol dabbled with electronics and mechanical engineering through his youth, Read more
After a while in this job, you get to feeling like you’ve seen it all. The chain emails that show the car you researched years ago. The all-too-familiar names, places and events that populate every story you write. In recent Read more
Lucky you, carspotters. Thanks to 21Studs, which recently posted the above image, we circled back around to the City of Toronto’s image archives and found a mother lode of color images from the early 1960s, all focused on shopping center Read more
One of the most unique American cars to cross an auction block this fall will do so not in Monterey but in Auburn, Indiana, where the custom 1941 Buick that Frank Kurtis built will go up for sale. Just before Read more
It was thought that technical innovation would help save Packard toward the end. Buying Studebaker back in 1954 didn’t exactly help turn around the fortunes of the grand old marque, so for the 1956 model year, the company invested in Read more
For some reason, all the various GT40-lookalike kit cars seemed to go unbuilt at far higher rates than other VW-based kit cars, which makes this 1972 Fiberfab Avenger for sale on Hemmings.com – finished and running – all the more Read more
From our TruckCarTruck department comes this blank canvas 327-powered 1967 Chevrolet El Camino. The seller states the car runs and drives, and arrived in Connecticut from California. 1967 Chevrolet El Camino. 327 Automatic. Original California car. Very solid, runs & Read more
Just spotted this trailer on Go Away Garage for a possible forthcoming documentary on Bernadette and Michele Ledermann. Looks like it’ll be worth seeing when finished.
While we love the color street scenes that we’ve been seeing courtesy Greg Steinmayer, black-and-whites tell us quite a bit too, so for today’s street scene, let’s travel to December 14, 1946, at the intersection of Ninth Street (now Dr. Read more
Returning to the street scenes that Greg Steinmayer’s grandfather, Edward Satory, shot in the mid-1960s, we see another shot taken from an unidentified location in 1965. It’s difficult to make out the signage, but the Buick dealership appears to be Read more