The patent art of Harley Earl

More than four decades after his death in 1969 Harley Earl remains a Mt. Rushmore scale personality in automotive history. He helped create what we know as automobile styling and design. Perhaps more importantly he helped shape American culture just as surely as he influenced the shape of American cars. Read more

Boston, 1949, part 2

Trucks figured prominently in our last late 1940s look at Boston, and while not so prominent in this 1949 photograph of Dock Square and North Street, courtesy the City of Boston archives on Flickr, plenty still roam the streets alongside the cars. What do you see here?

Hudson collection heads to auction

1950 Hudson Commodore 8 convertible brougham. Photos courtesy Auctions America. For more than 50 years, John Soneff not only kept the Hudson flame alive at his garage in Denver, but also coordinated and conducted collector car auctions all over the country. Yet it will be another collector-car auction company – Read more