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Huh. And all this time I thought I lived in the Home of Crazy. Yet according to this photo found on the Portal to Texas History (we’re guessing early 1950s), that honor goes to Mineral Wells, Texas. Don’t go lookin’ for crazy there today: The sign came down in 1958. Carspotters, Read more
A perfect Driveable Dream candidate, this 1954 Borgward Hansa 2400 for sale on Hemmings.com might look rough, but runs and remains rather complete, both major assets for a car that even the majority of car enthusiasts never heard of, let alone stock parts for. From the seller’s description: This is Read more
On July 11, English magazine Autocar published a brief interview with reclusive no-longer-boy billionaire TVR owner Nikolai Smolenski, and he confirmed that TVR is over for good. Smolenski told them that after building three test cars, “A Tuscan Mk2 convertible with a 400bhp Corvette LS3 engine; a Cerbera powered by Read more
Last year, our good friend and man on the ground in England, Simon Ford of Simon’s Car Spots, brought us coverage of the Goodwood Revival. This year he was back in the thick of the action at the Goodwood Moving Motor Show, and was kind enough to share his experience. Read more
Walt Woron circa 1996. Text and photos copyright and courtesy Michael Lamm. Walt Woron passed away on 2 July 2012, at age 91. With him passed an era. Walt was one of my lifelong idols, a man I greatly admired and respected. I was fortunate enough to know him as Read more
Inspired in part by this morning’s Electra 225 Hemmings Find of the Day, let’s travel to the northwest suburbs of Newark, New Jersey, where this street scene – which we found on Duke University Libraries’ Digital Collections – took place sometime in the 1970s. We noted Montclair, New Jersey, if Read more
More fish-in-a-barrel traffic shots from the Los Angeles Public Library’s online photo archive. First up, a shot taken to illustrate the dangers of driving at dusk, dated February 12, 1966, no location given. You know how everybody claims they could identify cars by their headlamps and taillamps back in the Read more
While straight-sixes were far from rarities in Chevrolet trucks of this vintage, what’s incredibly rare is that somebody decided to lovingly restore this 1964 Chevrolet C-10 for sale on Hemmings.com with a 230-cu.in. straight-six and three-on-the-tree transmission, presumably the drivetrain it originally came with, rather than with a V-8/automatic combination. Read more
Sure it’s a little rough, but we can’t be the only ones to see some potential in this 1974 Dodge Charger Rallye for sale on Hemmings.com. It seems to be all there, and as a Southwestern car for much of its life, it likely doesn’t have much rust to contend Read more
Woodstock brought plenty of hippies to the Upstate New York countryside, creating one of the most colorful traffic jams in history, and leaving us with some good carspotting photos 40-something years later. Both of these shots we found on Retro World. What do you see here? Also, tanks.