GM Art & Colour 1927-67
1927 LaSalleWhen Harley Earl's father sold the Earl Automobile Works to Hollywood Cadillac distributor Don Lee in 1919, Lee put Harley in charge of custom body design and sales. In no time he was...
View ArticleWild Youth - Stockers, Hot Rods, Jalopies, Bikes, Customs
1951 StudebakerModel A Ford1941 Ford1971 Ford Torino GT1936 OldsmobileCirca 1948 Mustang1938 Oldsmobile 6David Greenlees at The Old Motor has the scoop on this Auto Red Bug buckboard, likely a Smith...
View Article1931-3 Auburn Speedster On Muroc Dry Lake & Route 66
Muroc Dry Lake 2/38 93 mph Muroc Dry Lake California 4/7/40
View ArticleThe Week In Pictures 2
Driver Babe Stapp & riding mechanic Johnny Apple in Pirrung Special Shaw-Offy w/ Chevy Suburban in background, 1936 Indianapolis 500.1957 Fiat 600 Multipla with skis on the roof and freshly made...
View ArticleThunderbowl Comet Again
Subject of my very first post, this formidable machine was identified by Dan Strohl of Hemmings Daily as the Golden Eagle aka Thunderbowl Comet. Although the car's story varies from one teller to the...
View ArticleNew York City Auto Shows 1952-56
Madison Square Garden, Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th in Manhattan. Photos dated in pencil, this one 3/53. Kit Foster supplied official name and venue details for NYC auto shows of this era here,...
View ArticleVignale, Touring & Stabilimenti Farina Street Show Again
 Taken in Rome and Vienna by an American stationed in Europe after the war.1947 Cisitalia 202 Mille Miglia Aerodinamica Coupé, designed by Giovanni Savonuzzi and built by Stabilimenti Farina. Or maybe...
View ArticleParis Salon de L'Automobile 1948 / 1955
October 1948. Citroën 2CV, the French Model T, prepares for its public debut, with Kaiser-Frazer sign about to be hoisted in background. I test drove one of these in the early seventies, from a sleepy...
View ArticleBeater
Consider the life cycles of non-living things. Every drop of rain that falls onto a slope washes away another bit of mountain, just as a clock is already ticking when auto assembly line workers tighten...
View ArticleImports In The Land Of Giants
Wealthy Americans indulged in foreign cars from the earliest days of the Automobile Age; an imposing Rolls or Renault for the East Coast industrialist; a parade of extravagant Mercedes, Hispano Suiza...
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