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Photos courtesy Saratoga Auto Museum. Unless you’re a pretty serious fisherman or outdoorsy type, you may have never heard of Saranac Lake, New York. It’s so small it’s tough to find on a state map, tucked away into the enormous Adirondack Mountains preserve. Yet certain places, such as Keokuk, Iowa, Read more
Photo by the author. I’ve been drivin’ all night, my hands wet on the wheel. There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel. It’s my baby callin’: says I need you here. And it’s a half-past four and I’m shiftin gear. Golden Earring’s 1973 hit “Radar Love” is Read more
Speaking of Liberace, we couldn’t not post this late 1950s photo of the Riviera in Las Vegas for today’s carspotting scene, now could we? Unfortunately, we don’t see any of Liberace’s cars in this parking lot scene that we came across on Dreaming the Skyline, UNLV’s photo collection (which wouldn’t Read more
Any Liberace fans in the house? This 1976 Buick Century nine-passenger station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com might not be an actual Liberace-owned car, but did appear in an HBO movie about him. Beyond the film provenance, though, it appears to be a well-kept car inside and out, powered by Read more
1942 8-ton half-track Sd. Kfz. 7, the Littlefield Collection’s top seller. Photos courtesy Auctions America. When the final gavel fell at last weekend’s military-themed Littlefield Collection sale, the top seller wasn’t a formidable tank, missile launcher, self-propelled gun or armored car. Instead, it was a rather unassuming and utilitarian 1942 Read more
At the drive-in during the 2013 Stampede. Photos by Norm Bagi. Ford’s Pinto may be maligned by critics, but fans and owners of the economy car paint a far different picture. Thirty-four years after the last Pinto rolled off the assembly line, the car continues to enjoy a loyal following, Read more
This 1935 Ford Model 48 Coupe was featured in the January 1989 issue of Hemmings Motor News. All original including the gray paint, this car spent its days in Roanoke, Virginia, and accumulated only 39,000 miles. The 1935 Ford took a while for fans of the V-8 era to recognize Read more
Photos courtesy Oldtimer.ru. Just a few years before, the famous New York-to-Paris race wound its way through tsarist Russia, with competitors describing nearly impossible-to-traverse terrain there, some of the worst on the global competition. But by 1914, Russian motoring enthusiasts had not only grown in numbers, they had also organized Read more
From the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse’s Campus News comes today’s carspotting exercise overlooking a parking lot somewhere on the UW-L campus in the 1960s. A little bit of satellite spying leads us to believe this might be Cowley Hall of Science in the background, but we’re not entirely sure; if it Read more
Originally built for a Long Island fire department to use in fire tournaments, this 1935 Dodge Fire Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com saw some legitimate rescue use as well following a 1938 hurricane. In the years since, it has been used as a commuter, been stored behind a barn, and Read more