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Photos by the author. On my way to Hilton Head last month to attend the concours there I made a side trip up to Charleston to photograph this fabulous Plymouth. It’s a 1950 Suburban, a once fairly popular model that Read more

Apparently the Avenue Bar, as seen in this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee photo that The Old Motor recently posted, still exists, but as the hotel bar for a national chain currently on the same corner of North Sixth Street and West Read more

One of American Motors’ tributes to the legendary and durable straight-six that went on to power just about every AMC-built vehicle until the company’s end, this 1964 Rambler Classic Typhoon has survived the years well, remaining on the road and Read more

1970 Yenko Deuce. Photos by John Hollansworth, Jr., courtesy Mecum Auctions. Most people mark 1972 as the death of the (first) muscle car era, but if insurance companies had their way, it would have ended years earlier. By 1970, those Read more

Photos by the author and Derek Klein. No plan is perfect, and there’s nothing like a cross-county road trip to prove the point. Back when the idea of this trip from the LeMay/America’s Car Museum in Tacoma to the North Read more

We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely influence the hobby – Read more