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Bill & The Buddha Buggy during restoration. Photos and text by Anna Marco. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Anna Marco, senior feature editor at Koolhouse Publishing and a personal friend of hot rod legend Bill Hines. Among many other projects, as “Anna Octane,” she leads vault tours Read more
Except as noted, all photos are frame grabs from video below. This eight-minute adventure in Bizarreville was released nineteen years before the premiere of Rod Serling’s cult-classic Twilight Zone. A pity, because otherwise its opening sequence might have sounded something like this: Image courtesy CBS. Consider the plight of one Read more
I’d swear that these two photos depict a place somewhere in California, but Vintage Travels, the Tumblog that found and posted them, notes that they were taken in Kansas City in July 1955, and indeed there’s quite a bit of tile roof architecture in the Kansas City area. So I’m Read more
Plaid. What we like most about the listing for this 1964 GMC 1500 Camper Special for sale on Hemmings.com is that the seller just about dares whoever buys it to drive it home. Rocker. After all, it’s a pickup truck—specifically, it’s a pickup truck originally built to traverse long distances Read more
1920 Packard. Photos courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Though the Classic Car Club of America has long revered dozens of marques of distinction—Duesenbergs and duPonts, Maybachs and Mercers—it didn’t and still doesn’t consider every high-end car a Full Classic. Postwar cars for many years remained beyond the pale, as Read more
Earl and Berneice Baltes. Photo courtesy of Dave Argabright. Earl Baltes went from a total racing neophyte to the founder of Eldora Speedway in Ohio, which became one of America’s most legendary dirt race tracks. He died this week at age 93, one of the most acclaimed promoters in the Read more
Photos by the author. It’s pretty much official around my house: I’m addicted to buying vintage gauges—stock and aftermarket—as long as they are cheap! You may have seen the dash clock I blogged about a few months ago. I didn’t even know what it was from, but for $5, I’d Read more
1975 Triumph TR7. Images courtesy of Production Cars. Introduced in 1975, Triumph’s TR7 coupe (and later, convertible) represented a bold new styling direction for the British automaker, whose other coupe and convertible offerings (the GT6 Mk III, the Spitfire and the TR6) were beginning to show their age. With a Read more
Reader Robert Carolan sent us this photo showing traffic at Kenmore Square, where Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street intersect, not far from Fenway Park and right beneath the big Citgo sign. Maybe even taken from the Hotel Buckminster. From poking around the modern day street view, it appears this area Read more
One would think that now wouldn’t exactly be the best time to offer a snow-going machine like this 1919 Ford Model T snowmobile for sale on Hemmings.com. However, one would be wrong, because it seems like this winter just won’t quit up here in the Northeast; we’ll probably still have Read more