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Photos courtesy Sheridan Auction Services. While a one-off fiberglass-bodied Dodge concept car took center stage at last week’s Mitchell Car Museum liquidation sale, the core of the auction was made up of the station wagons that Don Mitchell – “Michigan’s station wagon king” – produced, including the 1958 Oldsmobile Super Read more
Photos courtesy Volvo Cars It’s hard to believe, but August 21 marked the 40th anniversary of the launch of Volvo’s evergreen 240 series, which was built in four- and six-cylinder varieties and in two-, four- and five-door forms through 1993. It’s likely the model that even non-car people envision when Read more
1954 Kaiser Darrin. Photo by Victor Carbe, Jr. Among car enthusiasts, the Kaiser Darrin is both unmistakable and polarizing. The prominent grille runs the gamut of descriptions, with some likening it to a cute baby chick looking to give a kiss, and others likening it to an aardvark’s snout searching Read more
While it looks as clean as a fresh restoration, this 1979 Honda Civic CVCC station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com has apparently been kept untouched and in pristine shape for 35 years. The car’s single owner obviously cherished it – after all, he or she loaded it up when it Read more
Up until we introduced the Driveable Dreams series late in the SIA run, old cars pretty much had to look shiny or have some important backstory to get into the pages of the magazine. Driveable Dreams, on the other hand, celebrated the rundown, sometimes rusty, nowhere near shiny, but well-loved Read more
Retractable hardtops are amazing to watch in action: A symphony of moving parts disguised to look like they were never designed to move in the first place. During the post-war Jet Age optimism of the late 1950s you wonder if Ford designers believed that retractable hardtops would revolutionize the industry Read more
* No, the King of the Hill Corvette was not a propane-powered special. Rather, “King of the Hill” was the nickname given to the prototype LT5-powered ZR1s, and one Corvette enthusiast went all the way to England to find the wrecked King of the Hill Corvette above, then proceeded to Read more
Alfa Romeos on display at the 2014 Concorso Italiano. Photos by author. For lovers of Italian automobiles, a visit to Concorso Italiano, held annually during Car Week, may be reason enough to book a trip to California’s Monterey Peninsula in mid-August. If last year’s event was a disappointment, this year’s Read more
So many questions about what’s going on in these two photos of a short stretch of East Market Street in downtown Warren, Ohio, which we came across on Downtown Warren History on Flickr. First, above, what seems to be a typical photo of Myer Frank Furniture, dated October 1963. The Read more
In an effort to drum up interest in its fourth-generation Malibu among Southern buyers, Chevrolet launched a special “M80″ edition of the car in 1980 that borrowed styling cues from muscle cars of a bygone era. Available only in white with blue skunk stripes and side graphics, the 1980 Chevrolet Read more