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Tucker Y-1 transmission. Photos by David LaChance. While Tucker and Cord will both share the limelight at this year’s Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance, as Kurt recently wrote, the two marques also shared one crucial mechanical component. Maybe. Most likely. Depending on what source you read. Anybody familiar with the details Read more
While looking for more information about Green Stamps after our recent carspotting post from Winter Haven, Florida, reader Richardoville came across today’s carspotting photo on Vintage Portland, snapped at the corner of SE Tacoma Street and SE 13th Avenue. Unsurprisingly, there’s now a Starbucks on that corner. What do you Read more
This 1960 Studebaker Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com is said to be a two-owner car with just over 110,000 miles on the odometer and current ownership dating to 1974. Though the car was last repainted prior to 1974, recent work includes a tune-up, new brakes, new battery and cables, new Read more
1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Photo by Matthew Litwin. While the Ford Mustang galloped into American culture almost 50 years ago and brought us the term “pony car,” let us not forget that it wasn’t the first sporty American car based on a compact car platform aimed at younger buyers. Instead, Plymouth Read more
1937 Cord 812. Photo courtesy of Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance. With American innovation as the theme of this year’s Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance, concours organizers gravitated toward two of the country’s most out-of-the-box cars for its featured marques: the front-wheel-drive Cord and the rear-engine Tucker 48, both of which exemplify Read more
Images courtesy the author. The edges may be yellowed, but the message remains the same. Black-and-white or color, hard or soft sell, old magazine ads of your favorite car (or cars) do more than just simply pitch a product. They capture a moment in history, however stage-set and idealized it Read more
A few weeks back, we asked whether the American junkyard was doomed as a result of high scrap prices and pressure from local authorities. Now, after seeing photographer Roy Schreffler’s behind-the-scenes photos of how junkyard cars reproduce (above), we’re happy to report that the North American junkyard car mating program Read more
One more from Impounded‘s set of found slides depicting NYC streets in about 1969. From the original uncropped vertical photo, it appears that the photographer is looking south along FDR Drive, perhaps at about the same location as the first photo in this series. Given the amount of space some Read more
What to do with this twofer 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Seville and Biarritz package for sale on Hemmings.com? Both need work, but that’s only because the seller appropriated parts from the Seville to use on the Biarritz. So the former would likely be easier to put back in running and driving Read more
The Aston-Martin DB5 used by Bond in GoldenEye. Photos courtesy London Film Museum. After almost three years, the Bond in Motion exhibit at England’s Beaulieu National Motor Museum has come to a close, but that doesn’t mean that Bond fans have seen the last of the collection of 007 vehicles: Read more