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Photography by author. The moment I got my license, the after-sundown car lot crawl became a tradition. When the dealership closed, the outside lights remained on, but the salespeople and other customers were gone. What better time to go new-car Read more

Date: April 1962 Location: Mill Creek Reservoir/Bennington Lake, Walla Walla, Washington Source: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, via Bygone Walla Walla What do you see here?

Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy the Mullin Automotive Museum. The idea behind The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award is a simple one: Take the Best in Show winners from the previous year’s six most prestigious concours d’elegance events Read more

Photos courtesy Auctions America. Convinced that the world needed gasoline and electric-powered mechanical elephants, British theatrical prop builder Frank Stuart founded a company called Mechanimals, which put these powered pachyderms into production in the early 1950s. Though estimates vary, it’s Read more

By William Hall. Photos by author. Anyone who has attended The Symco Shakedown in the past seven years can tell you that it is more than a car show- it’s a complete immersion into American hot-rod culture. That culture was Read more