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1920 Packard 3-Ton grocer’s truck. Photos courtesy LeMay – America’s Car Museum. Work trucks, it seems, are the red-headed stepchildren of the vehicular world. While exhibits celebrating muscle cars, sports cars and even luxury cars are commonplace at automotive museums, displays recognizing the accomplishments of the simple (but often elegant) Read more
Unrestored two-owner 1959 Ford Zephyr for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: It is with some regret that I have decided to sell my Zephyr. It was bought new in 1959 by a lady who kept it until 2012 when she was no longer able to drive. She always Read more
How do you make a gas station stop in a vehicle that literally belches fire? Carefully, apparently. Earlier this year, the Beast of Turin made its longest road trip in more than a century when it took on a 150-mile jaunt, and a recent Goodwood video shows just what a Read more
From the seller’s description: Beautiful 1975 Pontiac Trans Am with less than 18,000 original miles. You read this correctly, less than 18,000 original miles. This Trans Am is in excellent unrestored condition with all original paint, interior, body panels and stickers. In fact, this Trans Am is often used as Read more
Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/Maker movement discovers hot rodding. * Henry Ford might have been against replacing the four-cylinder engine in his mass-appeal cars Read more
Like Rodney Dangerfield, the 1980s is the decade that can’t seem to get any respect. The 1950s and ’60s stand on their own, automotive-wise, and though few would declare the 1970s the pinnacle of automotive evolution, there are a few high points (the Pontiac Firebird Super Duty, the Lancia Stratos Read more
Date: circa early 1970s at the latest Location: Brown Street, Rhinelander, Wisconsin Source: Jeff Ohlson, used with permission What do you see here?
Restored 1967 Tatra T603 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The T603 is the last of the Tatra streamliners that started with the T77 in 1933. Tatra was very innovative in those days and, with the T77, produced a modern-bodied streamlined car when other manufacturers were still making Read more
Photo by Mr. Nixter. Typically it’s a flesh-and-blood living person who takes home a lifetime achievement award, but the judges for the International Historic Motoring Awards, perhaps acknowledging the seemingly limited lifespan left for the Bonneville Salt Flats, decided to hand this year’s lifetime achievement award to that barren place. Read more
Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover Classic. In March of this year, Jaguar announced it would complete production of its legendary XKSS model, assembling the nine cars destroyed by a February 1957 fire at its Browns Lane factory. Eight months later, the “pilot car” XKSS was revealed during a media event Read more