Nostalgia Highway

(January 2, 2014) Here's what the Oldsmobile Division at General Motors wanted, but never got. A production model of the experimental show car, Oldsmobile F-88. It would have been in direct competition with the Chevrolet Corvette.

While debating the matter, GM built three 1954 Olds F-88 show cars, each one slightly different, all with concealed folding tops. They were designed under the direction of famed GM designer Harley Earl.

(January 1, 2014) Images of new cars sitting in a snowy driveway wrapped in a big red bow have long been a staple of automotive advertising this time of year. But unlike those marketing scenarios, this is the true story of a 16-year-old boy who got a very special Ford Mustang for Christmas in 1964.

By Jim Meachen
Abandoned Cars and Trucks

(December 29, 2013) SPENCER, N.C. — Southern Railway's Spencer Shops was a major steam locomotive repair facility between Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; once its largest center. The period of greatest prosperity and productivity for the facility was in the first half of the 20th Century.

By Casey Williams
MyCarData

(December 29, 2013) Automakers may talk about renewable energy from wind, water, and solar, but if they are honest, they will tell you that most of our energy will still come from coal and nuclear powerplants. If Americans want gas-free automobiles, they may have to get used to an old idea: Atomic-powered cars.

(December 18, 2013) Included here are a handful of interesting color pictures, part of a much larger collection of images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information taken in the early '40s.

They are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.

(December 16, 2013) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Barrett-Jackson, the World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, has announced that FOX Sports has expanded its viewership reach for the Scottsdale auction to include five channels within its family of networks. In total, there are 36 hours and six-consecutive days of live, high-definition auction coverage starting with FOX Sports 2 on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. ET (5 p.m. MT).

By Al Vinikour 
Abandoned Cars and Trucks

(December 15, 2013) I was fortunate enough to have grown up in those halcyon days of the Muscle Car Era. Every manufacturer had a dog in the hunt.

General Motors had its legendary Pontiac GTO and Chevrolet’s fabled 348 and 409; Chrysler had its Plymouth and Dodge Hemis and Wedges; and Ford had its high-performance Mustangs, Galaxies and Thunderbolts. In those days the cars would be raced on Sunday and used the rest of the week as family transportation. You didn’t trailer them to the drag strip…you drove them there and back.

(December 15, 2013) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford is taking pieces from its storied past and moving them into the future. The Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company have teamed up to help share key materials on beginning in 2014.

Henry Ford and his wife Clara were essentially amateur archivists — meticulously collecting the artifacts from their lives. This tradition continues today at Ford Motor Company archives, which house the company’s unique history and are not open to the public.

(December 10, 2013) Hemmings Daily Blog reports that the 1937 Cord 812 supercharged Phaeton purchased new by famous cowboy movie star Tom Mix will be on display at the Arizona Concours d'Elegance on Sunday, Jan. 12, at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.

Mix actually died behind the wheel of the Cord on Oct. 12, 1940, when he hit a washed-out bridge at excessive speed. An unsecured metal suitcase struck Mix in the head, fracturing his skull and breaking his neck.

By Al Vinikour
Abandoned Cars and Trucks

(December 4, 2013) All of us of a certain age have something we relate to as the symbol of a by-gone era; the “good old days” if you will. Some look to hula hoops, Pet Rocks, their first transistor radio, etc. However, not one to be conventional, I have a different object to fondly recall my youth; the inner tube.