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My former SCCA ITB car, a 1972 Ford Pinto. Photos by author. As pastimes go, it would be difficult to find one with as much diversity as the collector car hobby. Excuse the cliché, but when it comes to cars, Read more

The Oregon State University special collections, which posted this photo of downtown Eugene – specifically of Willamette Street just north of 10th Avenue, focused on Seymour’s Cafe – estimated the Gerald W. Williams photo was taken around 1950. That’s not Read more

For those who’d declare the old car hobby dead to all those born without trust funds, I present a counter-argument in the form of this 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 two-door hardtop coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com. Priced reasonably, the former Read more

Norman Yarrow was a Packard man, a luxury his career as a successful marine engineer afforded him. In 1930, he traded in a 1928 Packard phaeton on a new Packard Model 740 Custom four-door convertible phaeton that would later transport Read more

A 1912 Flying Merkel board track racer, one of the bikes on display. Photos courtesy Larz Anderson Museum. Motorcycles began, more or less, as bicycles with strengthened frames fitted with compact internal (or external) combustion engines. Initially intended to provide Read more

Photos by Myles Kornblatt, unless otherwise noted. Editor’s note: With Mad Max: Fury Road opening at theaters everywhere this weekend, we thought it appropriate to run a piece on the real star of the first two movies. This article comes Read more