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Cars with Fins
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Parking lot shot of Knotts Berry Farm in 1960 at the apex of the fin era. Looks like not one but two Plymouth Suburban station wagons just a few spots apart. Photo:lreed76
The 80 Foot Studebaker
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For the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress fair, Studebaker hatched the idea of building an 80 foot long, 28 foot high, 30 foot wide version of their newest and most luxurious model, the President Land Cruiser. The running boards alone were 21 feet long, the wipers three and the tires ...
Posing with the New Car
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Nothing like the day you bring home the new car. Not a scratch, ding or dent. Photographing the event for posterity is a must as like a magnet to steel, it won't be long before a shopping cart finds you and tarnishes your new purchase. Have a period photo of ...
Warhol and Cars: American Icons
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A special exhibit is currently on display at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh entitled "Warhol and Cars: American Icons" The exhibit will run through May 13th and features more than forty drawings, paintings and photographs form 1946 to 1986. Warhol worked as a commercial artist in the 40's and 50's ...
Muscle Car School
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As long as I can remember I've been into cars. I still remember seeing a brand new 1967 Firebird convertible one evening when my Dad took us to the local Burger Chef drive in. I begged my Dad to buy one, but we were a wagon family, so something as ..
Ocean Find: 1964 Bonneville Station Wagon
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Unearthed by winter storms in Morro Bay, California is what appears to be a 1964 Bonneville station wagon. The car was reportedly abandoned in 1973 after stalling on the beach and now after nearly 40 years of decay in a salty graveyard this piece of American iron is a nature ...
10 Automotive Turkeys
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The Edsel Introduced in 1958 at at a development cost of 400 million dollars which is equivalent to 3.026 billion dollars in 2010, this turkey is the greatest automotive failure in history. Ernie Breech, the chairman of Ford said "someone hoppe
The first Amphicar?
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Could this be the first Amphicar? These pictures show a much different Amphicar that was first sold in the U.S. in 1961. The New York license plates date the photos to 1960. Notable differences from the production Amphicar include the lack of a f
The Original Bond Cars
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1959 Bond Minicar. Image via Wikipedia When you hear the words ‘Bond car’ you immediately think of sports cars kitted out with everything from Stinger missiles to ejector seats…but, in reality, the original Bond cars were something very dif
1971 Dodge Challenger 383 Road Test
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Here is a period road test of a 1971 Dodge Challenger 383. The clip comes from the show "Car and Track" which was hosted by Bud Lindemann and aired on CBS from 1967-1975. Even though the term "muscle" is used to describe the cars power, Bud refers t
The $100,000 Volkswagen
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$100,000 Chevelles, Cudas and GTOs are pretty standard these days at Barrett Jackson auctions but seeing a 1963 Volkswagen 21 window bus sell for that price was pretty shocking. Yes this is a fantastic vehicle and I'm sure it's perfect in every respe
Maybe this is what killed the electric car
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Just in time for the OPEC oil embargo in October of 1973 the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development was held in the Mariott parking lot in Ann Arbor. Unveiled that day from GM was the Urban; a suspicious looking cross between a go
Vintage Billboards
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I know in her "Beautification Campaign" Lady Bird Johnson fought to remove billboards from America's roads, but some of these billboards are works of art. Just like Mom, women's clubs were always looking out for our well being. This 1950's
Magic Highway 1958
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1958 Disney short exploring the future of American automotive transportation. A utopian view where everything is effortless and automated. Some of the predictions in the movie have come true; rearview cameras, real-time traffic updates, automatic nav
Vertical Car Shipping
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In an effort to cut shipping costs with it's brand new 1971 Vega Chevrolet worked with Union Pacific to develop "Vert-A-Pac" which allowed 30 cars to be shipped versus 18 that a normal boxcar could carry. Because of the vertical shipping method, the
Baseball great Maury Wills scores a new MG
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In a season-long battle of ballots, Maury Wills stole a short lead and slid home just ahead of Tommy Davis as the most popular Dodger in an annual event sponsored by Roy Rogers and Frank Millard of Frank Millard Sports Car Center in Encino. Maury was
Chicago or Bust
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A road trip in a run down jalopy must have been a special experience in 1934 and based on the dirty hands these guys have, there were probably plenty of roadside adjustments needed on the Chevy, but these guys made it all the way up from New Orleans
1962 Junkyard
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Series of photos taken at a Connecticut junkyard in April of 1962.
Photos: Walker Evans Life Archive