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Charles Cushman spent plenty of time photographing just about every inch of San Francisco during his travels, and he even crossed the Golden Gate Bridge at least a couple different times to take in the little peninsula village of Tiburon. We couldn’t find an exact street location for the above Read more
Recently spotted these two photos posted by swi66 to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread and thought that, though no date or location was included with the two (we even spent a couple days poring over each without coming up as so much as a solid hint Read more
Not exactly a carspotting exercise for today, considering they’re all labeled, but fun nevertheless: Flickr member (and Hemmings Nation Flickr pool contributor) x-ray delta one uploaded this massive image of all the FoMoCo-built passenger vehicles. Interesting how Ford separated out Thunderbird on the family tree toward the bottom, but kept Read more
For some unknown reason, on April 26, 1961, an unknown photographer stationed himself along First Street in Los Angeles and took more than a dozen particularly sharp photos of the traffic as it whisked by. Fifty years later, 18 of those photos made it to the USC Digital Library, and Read more
Continuing with the project car Hemmings Finds of the Day this weekend, let’s take a look at this 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury for sale on Hemmings.com. No carpet, but the rest of the interior looks to be in great shape – plus, the missing carpet shows some solid-looking floors. Nice Read more
Up for a project? We’ve seen a few tri-five Chevrolets in project status on the Hemmings.com classifieds recently, but this 1955 Chevrolet 150 Handyman station wagon caught our eye, largely because it’s about the farthest one could get from the top-of-the-line V-8 Bel Air convertibles. From the seller’s description: This Read more
This video, which Richard Sullivan’s father shot on V-J Day on Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki, has been around the Internet a few times by now, but it still makes for an excellent carspotting exercise. What do you see here?
It’s easy enough to identify cars from the front. That’s the view we most often see in photos, and so we memorize headlamp and grille configurations before any other aspect of a car. But how about the rear? Taillamps and trunks can be just as distinctive. That said, let’s take Read more
You know what’s been missing from most of our street scene photos? Trucks! And it’s certainly not because trucks were hardly seen on the streets of yesteryear, as we see from this John Vachon/Farm Security Administration photo that Shorpy recently dug up, shot on Chicago’s West 15th Street (somewhere between Read more
From our pal Hugo90 comes this great shot of the Packard Panther concept car at the 1954 New York International Auto Show. That alone would be enough to get us to repost it here, but a quick glance at the background shows a carspotter’s delight, with a variety of European Read more