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1966 International Harvester Travelall, built for John Wayne. Photos via Joe Pickett. John Wayne’s private life mirrored that of many characters he portrayed on screen. As an avid hunter and the owner of the 26 Bar Ranch and Red River Land & Cattle Company, Wayne needed a heavy-duty four-wheel-drive vehicle Read more
1967 NSU Spider. Photos by David LaChance. Though Mazda is the manufacturer most closely associated with rotary engines, the Japanese automaker didn’t pioneer the unconventional engine’s use in an automobile. That honor goes to a manufacturer that’s now nearly forgotten, NSU, which worked with inventor Felix Wankel to develop the Read more
Mark Larson’s 1960 Chevy Impala, the Big Blue Dream Machine. Still image from video. It’s not unusual for those in the hobby to be passionate about their cars, and photo tributes to automotive love objects are commonplace on the Internet. Even videos aren’t all that unusual these days, thanks to Read more
While reader Mac Mackay normally sends us some excellent carspotting photos from his home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, he recently sent us this one from another hub – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Specifically, he recalls taking the photo in May 1973 from the rotunda at Pittsburgh’s union station, overlooking Liberty Avenue. Read more
While the lister of this 1961 Dodge Dart Seneca for sale on Hemmings.com describes it as a trailer queen – and it certainly gleams top, bottom, inside, and out after its full restoration – it also appears ready to hit the highway, with big brakes and reasonable updates including radial Read more
The Rebel L88 Corvette. Photos by Bill Erdman, courtesy of Barrett-Jackson. In the late 1960s, it was possible to walk into a local Chevrolet dealership, write a (substantial) check, and order up a factory lightweight Corvette, purpose-built for racing. In the early 1970s, perhaps the most famous of these Corvettes Read more
All images courtesy Antique Automobile Club of America. Lists! As we get toward the end of the year, we’re gonna see a whole lotta lists, including a few from us here at Hemmings over the next several days. The folks at the Antique Automobile Club of America thought they’d put Read more
All photos courtesy and copyright Charlie Beesley. Before the motorcar became a reality, most Americans never ventured more than a few miles from home. In 1890, a farmer who lived, say, eight miles from town faced a four-hour round trip by horse and buggy. That changed with the Ford Model Read more
Michael Lamm’s “Cars I’ve Loved and Hated” series from last year proved to be rather popular with our readers, so Michael teamed up with illustrator and frequent commenter Casey Shain to compile all 15 parts onto a single CD, featuring Casey’s book-form layouts that give the series added depth. While Read more
Vintage Portland, after looking over this 1965 photo of 82nd Avenue and Ash Street, lamented the fact that on-street parking on 82nd and 28-cent gasoline no longer exist, but from the modern-day street view, we see that not all that much has really changed here: There’s still a used car Read more