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Photos by the author and Derek Klein. Every morning the crews light a votive candle to the Old Car Holy Trinity: Spark, Fuel and Compression. These are the three spirits we need to appease in order to continue to move this fragile expedition forward. It is a tenuous relationship, but Read more
Photo by Matthew Ragan. With another year in the record books, it’s time once again to dust off the crystal ball with an oil-stained shop rag and peer into the future to divine five predictions for the coming year. Like any good medium, I can’t give you specifics, like which Read more
Photos by the author. On my way to Hilton Head last month to attend the concours there I made a side trip up to Charleston to photograph this fabulous Plymouth. It’s a 1950 Suburban, a once fairly popular model that sadly isn’t around anymore, at least not in this outstanding Read more
Apparently the Avenue Bar, as seen in this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee photo that The Old Motor recently posted, still exists, but as the hotel bar for a national chain currently on the same corner of North Sixth Street and West Wisconsin Avenue. There’s plenty to see in the parking lot Read more
One of American Motors’ tributes to the legendary and durable straight-six that went on to power just about every AMC-built vehicle until the company’s end, this 1964 Rambler Classic Typhoon has survived the years well, remaining on the road and in pretty solid shape. That body damage on the front Read more
1970 Yenko Deuce. Photos by John Hollansworth, Jr., courtesy Mecum Auctions. Most people mark 1972 as the death of the (first) muscle car era, but if insurance companies had their way, it would have ended years earlier. By 1970, those shopping for Yenko-tuned Chevrolets were already finding it difficult to Read more
Photos by the author and Derek Klein. No plan is perfect, and there’s nothing like a cross-county road trip to prove the point. Back when the idea of this trip from the LeMay/America’s Car Museum in Tacoma to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit was hatched, ACM CEO Read more
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely influence the hobby – they shaped it, kickstarted it, and breathed life into it. Read more
Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Arguably influenced by the Jaguar E-type and a runaway sales success from the moment it hit U.S. shores, Datsun’s Z car inspired a generation of sports car lovers and famously contributed to the demise of the traditional British roadster. The 280-Z represented Read more
Could’ve sworn we previously ran these two images of San Francisco that Those Old Cars recently posted, but after a review of our voluminous (750-plus) carspotting archives, it appears not, so let’s take a dive into the shot of Chinatown – looking north on Grant Avenue – in the Fifties, Read more