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The first two of today’s carspotting scenes from Seventies Bologna come from Impounded and appear to have been scanned from postcards, but the resolution is still good enough for identifying the various cars in the Piazza Medaglie d’oro above and Read more

Volkswagen’s Scirocco was a hit with North American customers from its 1975 introduction to its 1989 demise, when it was replaced by the more agile, more luxurious and more expensive Corrado. Clean Sciroccos used to be fairly common in the Read more

Ferruccio Lamborghini. Photos courtesy Lamborghini. On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini was born into a grape farming family in Renazzo di Cento, in Italy’s Emilia Romagna Region. From these humble beginnings, and following the hardships of World War II, he Read more

Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no way of knowing that his fiberglass molding efforts would be the Read more

There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, or secret stashes of Tuckers, Read more