Connecticut, West Hartford, 1960s, part 4
Location: Farmington Avenue and Kenyon Street, West Hartford, Connecticut Source: via Joe Sokola Date: 1960s What do you see here?
Location: Farmington Avenue and Kenyon Street, West Hartford, Connecticut Source: via Joe Sokola Date: 1960s What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: It was my grandmother’s car. which she restored in the ’80s, parked it under a carport and used it very little. I acquired it and started restoring it again a couple of years ago. Since I’ve had it, most everything you can’t see has been replaced or refurbished. The transmission has […]
Location: Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota Source: Lavonne Ullrich, submitted by Gene Reiser Date: September 1958 What do you see here?
Musk generated a lot of buzz over the weekend when he teased the idea over Twitter. After his proposed acquisition of SolarCity Corp. was widely panned, Tesla Motors Inc. Chairman and CEO Elon Musk is turning to a “masterplan.” Source: Twitter Adam Jonas, who analyzes the electric carmaker for Morgan Stanley, sent out a note to clients this morning speculating on […]
Fire up a new model and it updates more than 100,000 data points, including rather personal details like the front-seat passenger’s weight. The navigation system tracks every mile and remembers your route to work. The vehicular brain is smart enough to help avoid traffic jams or score parking spaces, and soon will be able to […]
Instead, build these plywood racks that increase the carrying capacity of your truck and keep your wood clean, too. Hauling a full 4 by 8-foot sheet of plywood from the store to your home is a task best accomplished using a pickup truck. It’s what they’re made for. But just tossing plywood into the bed […]
You may even use it yourself—if you drive a newer high-performance car, it’s probably mandatory per the owner’s manual. But full-synth oil is one of those things that’s gone from smart car maintenance advice to car dad folklore. You know it’s the right thing to use, but maybe you don’t know why. You’ve probably heard […]
When Bristol stopped production of the engine in 1961, it looked like the end of the road for the Ace, but then Carroll Shelby and Ford entered the picture, and the rest is motorsport history. Just one Shelby Cobra prototype was ever built, and it has been owned by Carroll Shelby, and now the Carroll […]
Last week, Hemmings reader Jeff Yost and I were discussing the subject of tires and collector cars. When Jeff purchased his 1976 Chevrolet Corvette through a Hemmings ad in April of 2016, he thought it would be a good idea to check the age of the tires on the car, a set of pristine B.F. […]
Location: Sky-View Drive-In, N 72nd Street, Omaha, Nebraska Source: Jim Burnett, Omaha World-Herald Date: July 1979 What do you see here?
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