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Photos courtesy Buick. Why yes, the listicles are coming in heavy now as the year winds down. Not to get all Buzzfeed on you dear readers, but it’s Friday afternoon, and this Buick-provided list of their top 10 (okay, they started with 11, a nod to Buick’s 110th anniversary this Read more
With the holidays upon us, let’s go with a themed carspotting photo. It’s fairly ubiquitous on all the old car scene spots on the Internet (we came across it on the AACA’s forum), all of which identify it as Huntington Beach, California’s Main Street in December 1957. If that’s the Read more
Donna Mae Mims’s former Austin-Healey Sprite. Photos courtesy Gooding & Company. Donna Mae Mims may not have the same celebrity status as Shirley Muldowney or Danica Patrick, but the Sports Car Club of America’s first female National Champion could wheel a race car with the best drivers of her day. Read more
Inside Building 84 in South Bend. Photo courtesy South Bend’s Historical Heritage. Fifty years ago today, the Studebaker automotive assembly line in South Bend, Indiana, shut down. While the company continued to build cars in Hamilton, Ontario, for the next couple of years, the company’s fate as a car builder Read more
Fangio behind the wheel of the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196. Photo courtesy Bonhams. When we penned last year’s top 10 auction recap, we apologized to our readers in advance for covering the extreme top end of the market, where three cars sold in excess of $10 million, and the total value Read more
Photos courtesy Max BMW. Classic BMW air head fanatics can appreciate this. Max BMW of NH is busy at work this week building a 1975 BMW R90S motorcycle from all new parts listed in the BMW replacement parts catalog. The time spent on researching, ordering, organizing and cataloging each separate Read more
Photos courtesy Max BMW. Classic BMW air head fanatics can appreciate this. Max BMW of NH is busy at work this week building a 1975 BMW R90S motorcycle from all new parts listed in the BMW replacement parts catalog. The time spent on researching, ordering, organizing and cataloging each separate Read more
Spotted on the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread, we don’t know much about this street scene. From the license plates we can see – a couple black-on-white, and a couple white-on-black – we’re going to surmise that this is Virginia and that it’s the fall of 1957 Read more
We see plenty of collector cars nowadays. We see plenty of original cars and restored cars. We see plenty of muscle cars and sports cars. But can’t an old car just be an old car? Something like this 1957 Pontiac Super Chief for sale on Hemmings.com – a four-door in Read more
1955 Chrysler Falcon. Photo courtesy Joe Bortz. As disparate as the 1955 Chrysler Falcon and 1966 Duesenberg Model D appear at first glance, the two concept-slash-prototype cars have quite a bit in common. Both result from designs by famed stylist Virgil Exner and feature a number of Exner hallmarks; both Read more