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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joe Kaufmann of Manitowoc, Wis., is one of the hobby's longest-running restorers and caretakers of Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs. He purchased his first Auburn in 1941, and in [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The horsepower race was in full swing when Pontiac introduced its new Strato-Streak 285-hp engine in the February 1956 issue of Service Craftsman News, a company publication aimed [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2010 Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival (ELVF) was an amazing weekend for vintage sports car lovers. This is traditionally the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association's (VSCDA) premier outing [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Corvair was the first compact from the 'Big Three'--and the most unique. Standard 500 ($1,984 to $2,038) and Deluxe 700 ($2,049 to $2,103) models were offered first. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I was young, I tended to be forgetful. Nearly every afternoon, my mother would send me to pick up a few items at a grocery store. To [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] General Motors' Oldsmobile division made only 63 Oldsmobile Six convertible coupes with sidemounts in 1936, making the car pictured here quite rare. In fact, any Oldsmobile convertible of [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The small car evolved in Europe, where travel distances were short, roads were narrow and fuel was expensive. Small cars were marketed in the United States by Bantam [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fred Gibb came to firmly believe that 'what wins on Sunday sells on Monday,' so he saw racing as a way to boost sales. He didn't realize that [...]

The New Products Showcase at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas Nov. 2-5 shattered the record for most registrations in the event's history. More than 1,600 products were exhibited [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Long lines and smiling faces in the crowded aisles of the 2010 SEMA Show were just some of the indications the economy is picking [...]

'Thunderbird people ... unique in all the world' said I Ford Motor Co. in one of its sales slogans promoting the 1962 Thunderbird sports-personal car. Art Kastl Sr. was one [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fall is here, the Midwest temperatures are getting cool and the convertible owners who brought theme cars to the Fall Jefferson show tended to keep their tops up--at [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The sixth Milwaukee Masterpiece at Veteran's Park in Milwaukee, Wis., truly was a masterpiece. The Aug. 22 event decorated the Midwestern city's lake front with vehicles from Isettas [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Phil Schultz is his own boss. He runs Vintage Mustang Restorations in Hubertus, Wis. Previously, Schultz was a business manager in an entirely different type of environment at [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] St. Charles must be the patron saint of Chevrolets, because many cool Chevrolet cars, trucks and automobilia can be found in this area of Illinois. The [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Auto Historica X was the 10th exhibition in a series of shows held in Highland Park, 111., that presented hand-picked, one-of-a-kind automobiles to highlight the theme 'The Auto [...]

Some old cars have internal oil pumps that reside inside the engine block. Others have external pumps that bolt to the outside of the block and have a driven shaft [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 'Captain Video rocketship Corvette' that came out in 1953 is the one I fell in love with as a kid. It's not surprising that this six-cylinder sports [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last summer, Old Cars Weekly featured a 1972 Corvette ZR-1 that Guy Carpenter of Marshfield, Wis., bought new to preserve. That ZR-1 was a factory small-block race car [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the story of a true 'Rip Van Winkle' car--a fabulous 1951 Buick that was lovingly preserved by its original owner, in almost new condition, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1956, the popularity of Elvis Presley helped turn rock 'n' roll into a national phenomenon, but traditional family tunes like 'I Could Have Danced All Night' also [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With the recent sale of the silver-blue 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic (chassis no. 57374) fetching headlines for its $30 million-plus sale price, I was reminded that my [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Looking back, Jim Kitzerow laughs when he puts things in a modern perspective. 'The GTX was a real 'barn find' when we bought it, and I think half [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most collector car dealers at the 2009 Atlantic City Classic Car Auction were located in the auction area, the car corral, the car salon or under the car [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like any other automotive label, the term 'sports-personal car' has its strengths and weaknesses. The Ford Thunderbird--one of the first true sports-personal cars--could just as easily be called [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pontiac's famous advertising slogan 'For just pennies a day more!' summed up the market appeal of General Motors' lower-mid-priced marque. The message resounded with people who had previously [...]

Last week Old Cars Weekly told you that vintage Lincoln Continentals were a 'hot' car at the 2010 SEMA Show. At that time, we did not know one of the [...]

In 1926, B. Frank Hafer, W. Howard Swartz and J. George Hoffman purchased the Boyertown Carriage Works in Boyertown, Pa., and renamed it Boyertown Auto Body Works. Boyertown built high-quality [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wisconsinite Rex Evchuk has been a serious hot rodder since growing up Milwaukee. Later, he brought his automotive enthusiasm to north central Wisconsin, where he established Waupaca Machine [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is one of those 'couldas-houlda-woulda' cars that came out when car collectors were still fighting the prewar-vs.-postwar battle. I was involved because I took my '54 Chevy [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the middle of the 1953 model year, Oldsmobile division's already-plush Ninety-Eight series received an even richer limited-production model called the Fiesta. This is one of three special [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Carpenter Carpenter of Marshfield Wis., has been a car enthusiast since he was in high school. As a teenager, he read all the car magazines and spent a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Walking into the Milwaukee World of Wheels in January felt like passing through a time warp. The time machine that shot us back to 1960 was John Cooper's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a long time, original-style leaf springs for straight-axle Corvettes seemed to be made of 'unobtanium.' Such springs were made out of no-longer-available grooved spring steel with a [...]

* OCW contributing writer John Gunnell always has his nose to the ground, looking for news in the old car hobby. Now, he's helping to search for a special car. [...]

The stunning 1960 Chevrolet Impala convertible featured here was a true three-owner survivor car, at least until Stefano Bimbi bought it at a Dana Mecum auction in Monterey, Calif. Bimbi--the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The featured red 1968 Shelby GT500 KR, owned by Dan Schmidt of Cleveland, Ohio, was an eye-catcher at the second-annual Bloomington Gold Survivor show. It looked the same [...]