As a teenager, I loved cars. All cars; it didn’t matter what it was, as long as you turned a key and it moved forward. My secret passion was for sports cars. Most likely this was the result of having read “The Red Car” by Don Stanford (1954), a tale

While the Indianapolis 500 race is easily the biggest event in Indiana’s capitol city—if not the entire state—Mecum Auctions’ annual Spring Classic has certainly become a noteworthy event in its own right. Since the Spring Classic is conducted one to

Richard Symmes, of Beverly, Calif., bought his 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1990 from a man who had bought it in an auction and intended to hot rod it. “Glad he didn’t,” he says. “It was originally purchased by an elderly couple in Lawrenceville, Ga. Th

John Emmering shared this photo from his family album. Pictured is Henry Emmering, age 25, back in 1927 while on Oklahoma Highway 20. Henry and his friend Julius Hynes, who took the photo, were members of the Chicago Daily News Trail Hitters Club. “T

Kurt Glasner picked up a pretty nice souvenir from a college football game he attended back around 1990. Glasner skipped the usual trinkets such as cups, pennants or key chains and went straight for the big stuff. “We were in Madison [Wis.] going to

In an odd twist, the passenger car looks unscathed while the semi truck appears to have taken the brunt in this collision. The circumstances surrounding this May 5, 1948, accident in Massachusetts are unknown, and perhaps the 1936 Ford convertible se

The young fellow on the right definitely has it made! That’s because, according to this 1937 advertisement, his well-heeled old man just bought him a Cord 812 as a graduation present. Not many dads at the time probably had $2,600-plus laying around t

Were it not for the 1927 Duesenberg Model X Speedster, there might never have been the famous Auburn Speedster. “It was actually the Duesenberg Model X Speedster that influenced the world-renowned Auburn Speedster,” confirms Brandon J. Anderson, exec

In June 1977, an excited 6-year-old John Pontius left Auburn, Ind., with his father, Lee, and family friend, John Stoops, on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip to Buffalo, N.Y., to pick up a 1932 Auburn 8-100A that Lee had recently purchased. John recall

What would Gordon say? Gordon Buehrig was in his mid twenties when he designed the 1936 Cord 810 while working at the Auburn Automobile Co. in Auburn, Ind. A celebration of the Art Deco style, the streamlined Cord automobile commanded much attention

These two old codgers — a circa 1936 Dodge and 1930-ish Ford AA — have been hanging out together for quite awhile on a quiet roadside in the tiny town of Rome, Wis. There isn’t a lot left of either of them, and they’ve sunk to their axles into Mother

Those car enthusiasts who were feeling down from the demise of Madison Classics’ Elkhorn (Wisconsin) event were able to fill that void with the debut of Gary’s Hot Rod Reunion at the Racine County Fairgrounds in Union Grove, Wis. The former longstand

CARTHAGE, Ill. — After Sullivan Auctions calved its all-no-reserve collector car sales into a separate division last fall (as Sullivan Collector Car Auctions), the company elected to conduct one more auction each year, adding its first online-only au

Years ago, I photographed Dick and Jan Lannen’s six-generation Corvette collection of six Corvettes in metro Detroit. One of the goals was to create a bow-tie effect with the cars by strategically positioning each Corvette by model year, with the Lan

Old Cars reader Steve Jessup is a big fan of his sweet 1957 Studebaker Commander Deluxe sedan. “My uncle was a Studebaker dealer from 1952-1966 and sold this car to my grandfather,” he says. “I got it from him in 1971 and have enjoyed it ever since!