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1973 BMW 3.0 CSL, one of the car’s on display at the LeMay Museum. Photo courtesy LeMay, America’s Car Museum. On March 7, 1916, Bayerische Fleugzeug-Werke AG, the company that would eventually evolve into the brand we know today as BMW, was founded in Munich, Germany. In the century since, Read more
The model-building work of brothers Cliff and Larry Read continues to astound. Courtesy Gene Herman, we’ve received a few more writeups on how the brothers take inexpensive scale models and turn them into largely scratchbuilt pieces of art. Take, for instance, this Plymouth pickup turned Fargo soft drink carrier by Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News There’s truth to the idiom, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” and the humble flat-four-powered 912 has certainly followed the 911’s recent value trajectory. Indeed, the folks at Hagerty Insurance have watched, in the past three years, the price of Read more
Reader and contributor Don Homuth recently sent us a link to an Oregonian article on old grocery stores in the Portland area, and the three best carspotting images from the article all happen to date to the Sixties. Above, we see a Tradewell store at NE 15th and NE Fremont Read more
While this 1948 Dodge B-1 for sale on Hemmings.com leaves us with plenty of questions – which coachbuilder put it together? for whom? for what purpose? – there’s no doubting its unusualness or its potential for an epic restoration/rebuild, the latter bolstered by the completeness of the wagon. Perhaps some Read more
Photo by John Penrice. At its peak, Studebaker operated out of more than a hundred buildings scattered across South Bend, each dedicated to a particular auto manufacturing need. Renovating every one of the remaining buildings is likely an impossible quest, but the group already renovating Building 84 seems up to Read more
1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow. Photo courtesy Ironstone Concours d’Elegance. What do the 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow, the 1938 Phantom Corsair and the 1955 Lancia Nardi Blue Ray coupe have in common? Aside from a wind-cheating shape, the answer is that all will appear, together for the first time, in the Read more
[Editor’s Note: Jim Allen’s forthcoming book, the International Scout Encyclopedia, promises to cover everything a Scout fan would want to know about International’s Jeep-fighter. The folks at Octane Press, the book’s publisher, provided us a couple bonus stories discovered during Allen and John Glancy’s research for the book, including this Read more
Photography by author. Over the years, you’ve likely put a diligent effort into making your vintage vehicle look its best. If you’re sharing your pride and joy with someone via photos, keep in mind, their quality can make or break the viewer’s first impression. Last week’s blog, Ideas for backgrounds Read more
Unlike most of the Hartford photos in the collection supplied to us by Joe Sokola, today’s four come with a date – April of 1968 – and we can fairly easily determine the location as Bushnell Park (must’ve been a chilly April – not a lot of people out enjoying Read more