“Who put a Suzuki badge on a… wait… what is that truck?” OK, I admit that I’d completely forgotten that Suzuki once sold a pickup in the US, but that’s […]
In today’s safety-obsessed world, it seems like we might as well be wearing helmets while going about our daily lives. Well, it turns out someone thought of that already… over […]
Variety is the spice of life. That 18th century adage wasn’t written about vehicles, but it applies nicely to the cars in this driveway. Here’s someone with diverse automotive tastes […]
One expects to see certain things in suburban driveways during wintertime… but a Rolls-Royce Corniche? Not so much. Even back in the 1980s when this example was built, I considered […]
Daewoo marketed cars in the United States for only about 1,300 days, but its story was as interesting as its cars were bland. The narrative of the company’s rapid home-market […]
December isn’t typically the best time of year for seeing rare cars on the road, so when I noticed an unusual green shape in my rearview mirror last week, I […]
Vintage ads are at their best when they include both period-specific graphics and an obscure product that’s all but forgotten. This ad has both. I’m not sure what stands out […]
Would you want to drive for 16 hours straight with two adults and two kids in a minivan? Last year, my answer to that question would have been an emphatic […]
“What is that big old car?” A passerby asked that question as I was taking the above photo… timely, since I was transfixed by seeing a 1940s-era car in a […]
Car-based pickups will always cause me to look twice… but one with fake wood trim? Well, that’s enough to slam on the brakes and take some pictures. Which is just […]
I rarely peruse my local Craigslist. Maybe I should do it a bit more often, because I came across this car recently – not the typical car one would expect […]
When I first saw this car from a block or so away, it looked like a familiar shape that was somehow distorted to appear smaller. Upon getting closer, I thought… […]
Let’s try a large expanse of sheetmetal for today’s CC Clue. Of course, last weekend’s analysis of car colors may provide some evidence as to this car’s approximate year of […]
Two weeks ago, CC’s Joseph Dennis wrote about a Mercedes-Benz 380SL in a piece titled The Art of Aging Gracefully. Joe’s featured SL was battered, but still exuded the classiness […]
Yesterday’s post of a vintage 1968 photo of Los Angeles’s traffic-clogged Hollywood Freeway reminded me of one of my favorite vintage travel ads… this one from 1957 sponsored by the […]