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Can anybody explain why it is that woodies – such as this 1941 International K-1 woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com – seem to get more accessories piled on them than other cars? Is it the whole surf wagon thing? Does doing so remind everybody of summer camping trips Read more
Noticing all the street scenes we’ve been posting lately, Papafiesta sent in these two, snapped in his hometown of Sullivan, Indiana. Papa wrote: The Red & White store was on the corner of North Court and Wall streets. That building now houses our fire and police station. The parade scene Read more
A note to whoever will purchase this 1951 Ford Anglia for sale on Hemmings.com: Every time you take it out, you will be inundated with people noting that Anglias make wicked fast drag cars. You will probably be offered more than you paid for the car by somebody who will Read more
In what appears to be the highest price paid at public auction for a collector car, the first 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa sold for $14.9 million Saturday night at the Gooding auction in Monterey. Gooding officials are still tabulating the final price with premiums, but that figure easily surpasses Read more
We’ll note here real quick that, though the seller describes this 1953 Chevrolet panel truck for sale on Hemmings.com as a 3/4-ton unit (making it a 3600), our research shows that Chevrolet only offered panel trucks on 1/2-ton and 1-ton chassis. Experts, feel free to set the matter straight. Regardless Read more
Vintage street scenes and parking lot scenes are all well and good, but for the ultimate carspotting exercise, we’re going to have to head to the junkyard, where Charles Cushman spotted this mound of junked cars in Evansville, Indiana, in October 1952. There’s plenty to see here, so tell us Read more
They started arriving at dawn Wednesday in Barton, Vermont, a flyspeck of a town near the Canadian border, albeit a lovely one. They came in de Villes and Sevilles, Broughams d’Elegance, Series 62s, DTSs, STSs, XLRs, Eldorados, CTSs, Cateras and Escalades. They came not only from Vermont, New Hampshire and Read more
George Devol, a largely self-taught inventor who came up with and patented the first robotic arm, died last Thursday at age 99. Born on February 20, 1912, in Louisville, Kentucky, Devol dabbled with electronics and mechanical engineering through his youth, but never attended college; instead, he held a string of Read more
After a while in this job, you get to feeling like you’ve seen it all. The chain emails that show the car you researched years ago. The all-too-familiar names, places and events that populate every story you write. In recent months I got to thinking I’d come across just about Read more
Lucky you, carspotters. Thanks to 21Studs, which recently posted the above image, we circled back around to the City of Toronto’s image archives and found a mother lode of color images from the early 1960s, all focused on shopping center (make that “centre”) parking lots. The archives provide absolutely no Read more