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Volkswagen’s EA-48 prototype. Photos courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. [Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked visited the AutoMuseum Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany, where he came across this oddly familiar prototype. Here’s the story of the stillborn VW EA-48 city car prototype.] The original Mini is often credited Read more
From the seller’s description: There were just 1001 Town & Country convertibles built in 1949 and it is estimated that approximately 130 remain. This numbers matching 1949 Chrysler Town & Country convertible has an 8 cyl. engine and fluid drive transmission with 76k original miles. This T&C has had just Read more
1946 Nash Ambassador. Photo by the author. Charles Nash, by most accounts, got along all right with Charles William Crapo Durant. He just knew he couldn’t continue to work with the man who’d brought him into the automotive business, so in the summer of 1916 he struck out on his Read more
Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver deliver a GT40 win at the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsport. It’s not just about the finest cars on planet Earth. The grand show at Pebble Beach next month is also about getting educated about the cars on display, and Read more
Photography by author. In “A Dog’s Life,” an episode of the classic TV show The Honeymooners, Alice adopts a dog from the pound without Ralph’s knowledge. Foraging for a snack in the icebox, neighbor Ed Norton mistakes the bowl of dog food for a homemade appetizer, and finds it to Read more
Ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society If you’ve ever noticed that sometimes the car in the ad looks a bit different from the car that you buy, you may find this blog entertaining. When Pontiac was developing its attention-grabbing GTO Judge for 1969, its early graphics and rear Read more
Date: 1950s Location: Main and Anaconda, Wolf Point, Montana Source: found photos via Mark Susina on Flickr What do you see here?
The 1954 model year brought about a number of changes in Chevrolet’s Advance Design light trucks. For instance, GMC first offered the Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic transmission in 1953, but ’54 was the first year it was available in a Chevrolet. There weren’t as many takers for the automatics as there Read more
Photo courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. Not all youth project cars like the one sponsored by the Crosley Automobile Club end in success, which was why the members of the club, upon the completion of the 1947 Crosley’s restoration, decided to award the car’s title to 16-year-old Lizzie Frey, who saw Read more
Screen grab from Harley and the Davidsons trailer. Filming has been completed and the Discovery Channel has already released the dates, September 5-7, that the three-part, six-hour miniseries Harley and the Davidsons, produced by Raw Television, will air during the network’s fall television line-up. Many of the location shots for Read more