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Photos by Jason Robinson, courtesy GM. More than 100,000 documents and artifacts related to Flint carriagebuilding and early General Motors history have made their way to the newly reopened Flint factory that once served as the base of operations for the automaker’s founders. “Factory One is part of the very Read more…
Photo courtesy Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show. Racer turned automotive entrepreneur Carroll Shelby died on May 10, 2012, but his name lives on with sports car and muscle car enthusiasts worldwide. Since 2013, the Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show has honored his memory with a display of all Read more…
Brochure images from author’s collection. If you prefer American cars over those from Europe, but still favor small over large, then consider owning a Crosley. Consider this: most Crosleys were about 145 inches long, which is just 12 feet in length; overall heights run around 49 inches, or about four-feet. Read more…
Date: circa 1960s Location: Arco da Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal Source: vintage postcard via Frenchcurious What do you see here?
Corvettes under assembly in Bowling Green, 2016. Photo by Sanford Myers, Courtesy of General Motors. When GM’s Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant geared up for the switch from the C6 Corvette to the C7 Corvette in 2012, public tours of the factory were halted for a little over one year. Read more…
Image courtesy NICOClub.com. Twenty years ago Nissan experimented with offering its vintage cars restored and on the showroom floor. Now it appears the company wants to take another stab at catering to the old-Nissan collector with a reproduction parts program. Revealed earlier this week as part of a press conference Read more…
1965 Chevelle SS, showing its pedestal door mount mirror. Photography by the author. Remember when external mirrors were just used to see behind you? “No, I was always going too fast to care about what was back there. Haw haw.” Leave it to car makers to make a piece of Read more…
Date: circa 1979 Location: Enghelab Street, Tehran, Iran Source: Bahman Jalali photo, via Muftah.com (h/t to Stephane Dumas) What do you see here?
1951 Mercury two-door Sport Coupe, model 72B, for sale. From the seller’s description: Mercury 2Dr Coupe. It’s not often you see a 51 Mercury Coupe this pristine and original. A true time capsule car, this Mercury has only 42,000 miles since new. The interior shows very little wear, all instruments Read more…
Photo courtesy PackardPlantProject on Instagram. Three years after a real estate developer bought the remains of Detroit’s Packard plant with grand ambitions – and nearly 63 years after Packard vacated the building – the renovation of the plant has been slated to begin later this month. Originally scheduled for October, Read more…