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My former SCCA ITB car, a 1972 Ford Pinto. Photos by author. As pastimes go, it would be difficult to find one with as much diversity as the collector car hobby. Excuse the cliché, but when it comes to cars, one man’s junk really is another man’s treasure; as evidence, Read more
The Oregon State University special collections, which posted this photo of downtown Eugene – specifically of Willamette Street just north of 10th Avenue, focused on Seymour’s Cafe – estimated the Gerald W. Williams photo was taken around 1950. That’s not a bad guess, but we can probably narrow down the Read more
For those who’d declare the old car hobby dead to all those born without trust funds, I present a counter-argument in the form of this 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 two-door hardtop coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com. Priced reasonably, the former California native comes with the 260-cu.in. Challenger V-8, rated in Read more
Norman Yarrow was a Packard man, a luxury his career as a successful marine engineer afforded him. In 1930, he traded in a 1928 Packard phaeton on a new Packard Model 740 Custom four-door convertible phaeton that would later transport King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during a 1939 trip Read more
A 1912 Flying Merkel board track racer, one of the bikes on display. Photos courtesy Larz Anderson Museum. Motorcycles began, more or less, as bicycles with strengthened frames fitted with compact internal (or external) combustion engines. Initially intended to provide affordable transportation for the masses, motorcycles have evolved into a Read more
Photos by Myles Kornblatt, unless otherwise noted. Editor’s note: With Mad Max: Fury Road opening at theaters everywhere this weekend, we thought it appropriate to run a piece on the real star of the first two movies. This article comes to us from Myles Kornblatt, curator, Miami Auto Museum at the Read more
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from new Hemmings contributor Vaughn Parham. More timeless than the back-and-forth battles between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the faceoff between the Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro is the classic car equivalent Read more
Not a lot of flash and sizzle in today’s carspotting scene, taken from a shopping mall postcard featuring Rogers Plaza Town Center in Wyoming, Michigan, sometime during the early 1960s. Just what looks to be a typical Saturday morning of suburban shopping, all done in a broad array of family Read more
If you’ve ever thought the world needed more postwar French cars stuffed full of small-block Chevy V-8, this 1950 Citroen 11B custom, for sale on Hemmings.com, may be the street rod you’ve been waiting for. We’re not quite sure how the builder managed to fit the 350 V-8 between the Read more
Photos courtesy Auctions America, unless noted otherwise. Bob Sorrell was an artist who worked in aluminum and fiberglass, translating his one two-dimensional mechanical drawings into stunning automotive bodies. When his sleek aluminum SR-100 sports racer body debuted at a 1953 Petersen Motorama event, the overwhelmingly positive reception prompted Sorrell to Read more