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Photos courtesy Brian Redman. If you’re heading to Long Beach, California, perhaps for next weekend’s IndyCar street race, consider making some time and effort tomorrow at the Road Racing Drivers Club’s annual West Coast banquet, which will honor the career of Brian Redman. Redman was one of the best when Read more
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
On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang made its official debut at the World’s Fair in Flushing, Queens, New York. Almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Named for a World War II fighter plane, the Mustang quickly came to be synonymous with the performance segment, giving rise Read more
For 60 years now, you’ve seen them – icons of British motoring. The Big Healeys, cousins to Austin-Healey’s Sprites, combine classic good looks with the power to provide immense amounts of vehicular fun. They run well, they look good, and you simply can’t help but smile when you see one. In Read more
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?
This 1953 Jaguar XK120 for sale on Hemmings.com is indeed a beautiful car worth highlighting here, but we’re just as impressed with the beautiful photos and comprehensive description. If you’re looking to sell your car online anytime soon, you’d do well to emulate this listing. From the seller’s description: Offered Read more
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
SPAAMFAA’s 2012 National Muster. Photos courtesy Dan Jasina. So what does one do at a convention of vintage fire equipment? As with most classic car events, there are scheduled tours (with a heavy emphasis on fire museums), seminars, a flea market and plenty of time for socialization. There’s also the Read more
Following Vintage Clippings parts I, II and III, this is our final installment of vintage automotive advertising, clipped by my father from crumbling, half-century-old copies of The Marlborough Record that were found in a box in his parents’ attic. The independent automakers had their heyday in the first decade following Read more
On April 16, 1908, Oakland sells its first car to a private buyer. Oakland ran independently for less than a year before it was purchased by Billy Durant and absorbed into Durant’s holding company, General Motors.