• Auto Tech
    1960s & Mexico

    Googling the photo does me no good – it seems only a few Tumblogs have posted it, all with no context. But we don’t really need to know where it was taken to identify the cars in it, right? So tell us what you see here. To be honest, I got no idea where this […]

  • Auto Tech
    1977 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham – Toronado Titan

    Probably because, in the repetitious void that such journalism represented, the 1977 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham represented a target too easy for the magazine bullies to ignore, the most obvious of the proverbial low-hanging fruit. Go on, admit it. If you were coming of age as an automobile enthusiast during the 1970s, and were leaving sweaty […]

  • American Car
    1970 Dodge Super Bee – Unscathed

    Go straight to the parts store and purchase a pair of Cherry Bombs before picking up your girl for a night on the town? Perhaps you’d make that long-anticipated trip to the local drag strip for a few rounds so that you could figure out what you needed to do on day two–you know, to […]

  • Automotive News
    Hartford, 1960s, Connecticut

    Located at 450 Main Street, not far from previous Hartford street scenes in this series, it’s served as a federal courthouse since 1963, though thee photos obviously date to a few years after that. Give these photos a good once over and tell us what you see here? In among the Hartford photos that Joe […]

  • Automotive News
    Triumph TR3A – Three for all

    One that’s reliable, no doubt, and easy to fix if anything does break. One with enough power to get you over the hills with no wasted time. Perhaps most important, one that keeps you entertained, and gives you the widest possible enjoyment of all of that beautiful scenery rushing past the windshield. When you’re hundreds […]

  • Automotive News
    Honey, I nearly bought a firetruck

    At the annual Mecum Spring Auction held in Indianapolis each May, you can find many beautiful examples of your favorite classic cars for sale. You can find the car you grew up with, the car your dad had, and the car you never should have sold. You can also find vehicles that you never even […]

  • Automotive News
    Woodward Avenue drag actually racing proposed

    It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Pontiac, Michigan, was the epicenter of illicit drag racing—often on the access roads of the yet-to-be-completed I-696 Freeway, but even between stoplights on the famed boulevard itself. Return of the North Woodward Timing […]

  • Automotive News
    America saved by investment from Nicola Bulgari on Wheels museum

    Enter benefactor Nicola Bulgari who, through his NB Center for American Automotive Heritage, has ensured a future for America on Wheels as part of a grander plan to transform Allentown into a global destination for classic car fans. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize […]

  • American Car
    1963 Chevrolet Impala SS – Hemmings Find of the Day

    Turbo-Thrift inline-six to the legendary 409, which made as much as 425 horsepower. Most cars split the difference between these two extremes, and this 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS two-door sport coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, is a perfect example. As ordered, it came with the 283 V-8 (good for 195 horsepower), mated to the two-speed […]