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Date: circa 1950s Location: Lake Arrowhead, California Source: found photo via Shorpy (above); Jack Shea (below) What do you see here?
Original interior 1968 AMC Ambassador SST for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Nicely equipped with the SST package, 343V8, automatic transmission, cold working factory air conditioning has been converted to R134, power steering, tilt steering wheel, fully reclining seats, pushbutton AM radio works, with rear speaker and bumper Read more
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Company. So-called barn finds seem to take place everywhere but a barn these days: Sheds, overstuffed garages, storage units, and even the odd basement have given up automotive treasures as of late. And as we see from the Tempo Matador Reisemobile headed to Read more
1957 BSA Gold Star racing motorcycle. Photo by Jill Reger. For decades, from the pre-war years into the 1960s, Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) was one of the largest and best-known motorcycle brands in the world. Thanks to aging designs and an influx of faster and more modern bikes from Japan, Read more
The 1948 Chevrolet sedan delivery as purchased by the Eichelbergers. Photos courtesy John Eichelberger. We in the car hobby sometimes ask ourselves, and each other, what our cars are worth. The answers differ. They derive from the people more than the cars. In 1997, John was just 15 years old Read more
Date: November 1937 Location: Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: John King What do you see here?
1960 Austin-Healey Sprite with period-correct Judson supercharger. From the seller’s description: This very unique Austin Healey Bugeye will certainly turn heads and make people smile at car shows where ever you go. It started out as a Leaf Green Sprite and now is Primrose Yellow (I can not verify paint Read more
Lanchester Mark II. Photo courtesy Bovington Tank Museum. Under new security measures passed this week in Europe, firearms collectors there – including collectors of tanks and other weapon-toting military vehicles – will face greater scrutiny from authorities in an attempt to crack down on terrorist activity. The revised European Union’s Read more
Peter Brock. Images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Along with celebrating America’s sports car, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, also celebrates the people who have been instrumental in the development, racing success and legacy of the car via the National Corvette Hall of Fame. In Read more
1932 Buick Model 57S Special Sedan (top); 1932 De Soto SC Roadster (bottom). Photos by the author. Last month we launched This or That: a new feature enabling us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle into our dream garage on a weekly basis. As was the case Read more