Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While we’ve seen John Vachon’s photos here before, they were taken in 1942 when he was shooting for the Farm Security Administration. Thirty years later, he shot a series of photos for the EPA’s Documerica project in and around San Juan, Puerto Rico, and among them is this first shot Read more
Looming over this scene of Milwaukee’s North Broadway Street, taken in November 1962, was the approaching eastern extension of the East-West Freeway, I-794, which finally crossed the Milwaukee River in 1969, demolishing the buildings seen here. According to the description of the photo on the Milwaukee Public Library‘s online photo Read more
Exactly why Wil Blanche shot these two scenes of traffic entering the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel for the EPA’s Documerica project in May 1973, we’re not sure. He seemed to focus most of his time on the project photographing the Croton Landfill and the newly constructed Word Trade Center towers, possibly all Read more
Based on the filename for this photo, as posted on the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread by swi66, it was taken somewhere on U.S. Route 59 in 1962. Route 59 passes through seven states over its border-to-border length, but the only major city – that is, one Read more
After coming across David Falconer’s shots of the fuel crisis last week, we spent some time trawling through his other photos for the EPA’s Documerica project and found these two junkyard scenes taken in February 1974. “Stacked autos are crushed and shipped to Japan, then return to the United States Read more
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, even if a 1956 Pontiac pedal car isn’t under your tree this morning! Image courtesy 42nd Street and via How To Build a Time Machine.
While certainly a lesser-seen Mercury, this 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauder for sale on Hemmings.com combines refined Sixties styling with a FoMoCo big-block V-8. Sure, it’s just a two-barrel, but we imagine the Merc would make for a better cruiser than racer anyway. From the seller’s description: This is a rust-free Read more
In, oh, about 72 hours, we here in Vermont are going to see the first major rush of the ski season as folks from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut take the week between Christmas and New Year’s to hit the slopes. One of the mountains they’ll descend upon (then Read more
Falling into thinking of classic and collectible cars as commodities is a trap fraught with danger. Are automobiles built to be traded like so much gold bullion or, as the definition of the word itself implies, a way to mobilize away from the mundane binds of otherwise limited existence? We’re Read more
We’re starting to believe Steve McQueen was the latter-day incarnation of Midas, particularly when combined with his legendary racing film Le Mans: First his Porsche 911, which he drove in the film, sold at auction for $1.25 million, and now the racing suit he wore in the film has sold Read more