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Vintage Dealers: A Cadillac-Oldsmobile Dealer, From 1956 To 1966
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QOTD: A, M or C?
Posted on May 6, 2024 | 46 CommentsRichard Teague was responsible for a number of attractive automotive shapes. The best to reach production was the Hornet. Super minimalist, long hood and tight tail, coiled-fist boxy, flares you […] -
Car Show Classic: 1965 Alvis TE21 – Give Me Aristocracy Or Give Me Death
Posted on May 6, 2024 | 22 CommentsThis week will be dedicated to the last great decade of British cars (i.e. the ‘60s), with a particular focus on luxury – something of a British specialty, at least […] -
Automotive History: The AMCs of AMI
Posted on May 6, 2024 | 32 CommentsRich Baron’s recent capsule on the Australian Matador X Coupe captured by Peter Wilding struck me with a double-barrelled CC effect. Buried in the recent past was an Australian AMX […] -
Curbside Classic Outtake: 1960/70’s Vanden Plas Princess 1100/1300 – The Real Anglophile
Posted on May 5, 2024 | 30 Comments(first posted 5/5/2018) I came across these two on a recent Sunday Tokyo sojourn – one a full-fledged Brit, the other an aspiring impostor. Let’s first take a […] -
Vintage Snapshots: Van Life During The 60s & 70s
Posted on May 5, 2024 | 29 CommentsThis is the second installment in this series, featuring vans and their owners in the ’60s and ’70s. And today’s collection shows a good range of situations around these lifestyle […] -
Vintage R&T Review: 1985 Toyota Corolla (AE86) GT-S – The Exciting TwinCam 16 – An Honest High Performance Weapon
Posted on May 5, 2024 | 21 CommentsThere are several ways to start this entry, all in the form of a question. For example; what’s it like to be around when a car legend appears? Particularly one […] -
CC Global: Two Tractors, More Than 50 Years Apart – Both Making a Big Noise
Posted on May 5, 2024 | 10 CommentsDeutz, an illustrious name in the vehicle manufacturing industry. The company’s founders gave us the internal combustion engine as we know it. Their air-cooled diesel engines were distributed all over […] -
COAL #19: The Volvo Handicap Car
Posted on May 5, 2024 | 16 CommentsDuring my first several months at Volvo, I put quite a few miles on the ’74 Audi Fox, considering that my commute alone added roughly 500 miles each week. By […] -
Curbside Classic: 1958 International Metro – The Original And Greatest Step Van
Posted on May 4, 2024 | 67 Comments(first posted 4/5/2013) All hail the mighty Metro! The finest step van ever made; the icon of the whole genre. I’ve been hoping to find one for years, and here […] -
All The Curbside Classics of Harrington, WA – A Complete Survey Of One Small Rural Town
Posted on May 4, 2024 | 28 CommentsMy van sojourns in the West take me through many small towns and hamlets invariably populated by a very high percentage of curbside classics. I’ve shot and shown many examples […] -
Cohort Capsule: Fiat 125 “Samantha” Coupe – One of 100 Built
Posted on May 4, 2024 | 57 Comments(first posted 5/3/2018) It’s a real treat to run into a car that I’d utterly forgotten about. When I was scrolling down at the Cohort, and this orange […] -
Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s & ’60s
Posted on May 4, 2024 | 29 CommentsToday’s collection of images is meant to highlight cars in residential areas during the ’50s and ’60s. It’s a mix of images, with some driveways, a few people and much […] -
Car Show Photo Report – FBHVC Drive It Day 2024
Posted on May 4, 2024 | 13 CommentsDoes this denote the start of the season, as they used to say in London? The FBHVC (the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, the club of historic and classic […]