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Images via MotorCities National Heritage Area, Walter P. Reuther Library. Plans for what will be Detroit’s newest park call for plenty of trees and gardens, walkways and reflection pools, even a kayak launch. In all, the plans appear serene and peaceful, a respite from the surrounding industrialization, though the event Read more
More than 300 invited guests and members view 33 genuine Indy cars from nine different decades – a full field under one roof – celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s Note: This piece comes to us from regular Hemmings Daily contributor, concours judge and Read more
Photos by the author What could be more apt than criss-crossing the country in a motor home from the same company that sent hundreds of Conestoga wagons down the Oregon Trail? Believe it or not, this isn’t the first Class C-type motor home we’ve seen built on a Studebaker truck Read more
1994 Jaguar XJ220. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. With a Nurburging Nordschliefe lap of 7:46.36 and a 213 MPH top speed, it was once the fastest production car in the world. First exhibited with V-12 power and all-wheel drive, the production version used a twin-turbo Read more
Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before – several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change program. And if we’re going to focus on the change between this photo and the Read more
Though this 1908 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com may not have been an original stunt parade car from the first half of the 20th Century, it has its own unique history – specifically as a stunt parade car for Disneyland’s daily Main Street parades in the early 1960s. Read more
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwork, so what better canvas for him than a slab-sided GMC step van that once allegedly served SWAT duty? Read more
Charles Kuralt’s 1984 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. According to three years of pricing history on Hemmings.com, Jeep CJ-8 Scramblers carry an average asking price of roughly $26,500, with the nicest examples commanding as much as $34,995. Celebrity-owned models are an exception to the rule, and last weekend a Read more
Photography by the author. My son recently found a vintage cassette called Cruisin’ Classics Volume II 70’s & 80’s, which was offered by Shell. Knowing that I’m always looking for automotive-related blog subjects, he bought it for me. Produced by CBS, it’s part of a series that not only chronicled Read more
Photos by author. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s Motorbooks International published a line of small hardcover books called the Osprey AutoHistory series. These compact books were 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in size, and ran 136 pages in length. The numerous photographs were black and while, but Read more