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Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News; color photography by Neil Nissing While Cadillac’s 1976 Eldorado Convertible was famously the “last” factory-built American convertible, Chrysler was one of the first to lead the American auto industry back to the joys of open-air motoring six years later with the Read more
Coulda sworn we had another Alaska carspotting picture to go with yesterday’s submitted photo of Anchorage, but apparently not. So instead, let’s travel to the other non-contiguous U.S. state today with a pair of found photos from late 1960s Hawaii. Above, we see an unidentified intersection and an unidentified hotel Read more
During the early days of the Cold War, in an effort to prepare cities for a potential nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, the federal government ordered up 1,300 Civil Defense Rescue Service trucks; built by companies like REO and GMC, they were affectionately known as “Calamity Janes.” Distributed to Read more
1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Chevrolet’s Cosworth Vega could have been the car that attracted enthusiast drivers to the Vega line, and it could have shown the world that GM knew a thing or two about building compact sports cars, especially with the help of a development Read more
The just-opened Corvette Cave In exhibit. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In perhaps the best example of turning lemons into lemonade we have seen in a while, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has opened a new exhibit dedicated to the sinkhole that opened in the museum floor Read more
A National Editorial Association press release photo, dated October 31, 1935, announces, “Helen Dryden, industrial designer for the Studebaker President, is the only woman to invade man’s domain, automobile production.” But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. To aficionados of flamboyant, early 20th-century fashion magazine covers—or enthusiasts of mid-1930s Studebakers—her name Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As many good points that the 924 had upon its 1977 introduction, this car had just as many bad ones -at least, in the eyes of Porsche’s very vocal 911 faithful. Not only was its Audi-sourced engine in the wrong Read more
Reader Paul Nielsen sent us today’s carspotting photo, scanned from a slide that his father, Merrill, took in either 1961 or 1962 while he was working in Alaska. “It’s of Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage,” Paul wrote. “The earthquake of 1964 destroyed the street, it dropped 30 feet in spots.” Read more
If the Oldsmobile 4-4-2 is among the best-known muscle cars of its day, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SX may be among the most obscure. Built in 1970 and 1971 only, the SX package, code Y79, added a 455-cu.in. V-8, the Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 automatic transmission, a rear bumper with exhaust Read more
1966 Ford GT40 Mk I. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Ford’s GT40 enjoyed great success as a racing car, but as a passenger car, a role required for FIA homologation, it was a failure. In order to move the 20 or so cars built for homologation purposes, Read more