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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 worldwide, put them head-to-head, and allow a panel of esteemed 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 believed that a total of 10 were built before Stuart 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 given a bigger stage this year at the Experimental Aircraft Read more

1941 Plymouth P-12 sedan. Photo courtesy Eric Knowlton. [Editor’s note: This “Reminiscing” story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from Eric Knowlton of Torrington, Connecticut.] In 1967, I was a junior in college and my father finally realized I needed a car. In the spring of that year, he Read more

Date: circa 1957 Location: Surfers Paradise, Queensland Source: Gold Coast City Libraries, via Have You Seen the Old Gold Coast on Facebook What do you see here?

1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile camper conversion for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original and rare Martin Walter Dormobile conversion to a new Land Rover 109 series IIa Station Wagon. The best of the rare luxury Dormobiles. Original white inside & out with expandable Dormobile canvas top. Original Read more

Photos courtesy Joe Germann. A 289, a nitro 427, and a SOHC: Joe Germann had a few different iterations of the Wild Child – one of Canada’s most famous drag racing cars and one of its first altered-wheelbase A/FXers – to choose from. Stock, it still had a good amount Read more

The first Volvo 144 rolls off the assembly line in 1966. Photos courtesy Volvo Car Group. On August 17, 1966, Volvo gathered an estimated 400 journalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, to show off its latest automotive creation. Six years in the making, the conservatively styled Volvo 140 series would go on Read more

“In a world crammed with impact, your voice has to be heard over all others.” No, we’re not talking Don LaFontaine here. Rather, the beaming face of Lorne Greene,  the charming, wise, tough-as-nails but also gently understanding Ben Cartwright, of Bonanza TV series fame. Here, though, the iconic kindly father Read more