A lifelong love affair…

Mr. Allen Swift of Springfield, Mass. received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new — as a graduation gift in 1928. He drove it up until his death last year.....at the age of 102!!!

Hemmings

(August 10, 2010) Farmalls ruled the auction block at Mecum’s Gone Farmin’ sale in Walworth, Wis., last weekend with two post-war Farmalls selling for more than $20,000, another selling for more than $50,000 and still another not sold despite a high bid of $32,000.

Below 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.

(August 9, 2010) If you're interested in seeing the most expensive car in the world, now's the time to plan a trip to Southern California. The Mullin Automotive Museum is displaying a 1936 Bugatti Type SC57 Atlantic. The museum is located in Oxnard, about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles.

The Bugatti sold for more than $30 million earlier this year.

By Al Vinikour 
MotorwayAmerica.com

I seem to be in an envious place — old enough to collect Social Security but lucid enough to remember the carefree days of my youth. Those days included spending most of my Sundays at U.S. 30 Drag Strip, a legendary track located in Merrillville, Ind.

It's a house! No, it's a car!

Actually it's both a house and a car. It's an historic 1925 Chevrolet House Car, and one of 225 vehicles that General Motors put up for auction from its collection in January 2009.

The house car brought $123,200 at a Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz.

By Al Vinikour  
MotorwayAmerica.com

Just like everyone who remembers where they were when they got the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated, so, too, they remember their first new car.

By Al Vinikour
MotorwayAmerica.com

There’s nothing like a divorce from a 20-year marriage to propel one into a mid-life crisis. Except unlike finding an 18-year-old blonde I channeled my new life through a 1984 Dodge 600 Convertible. It was black with a black top and red vinyl interior. It was cool and I thought I was as well.

(July 15, 2010) ROCKLEIGH, N.J.  — As a record-breaking automotive pioneer turns 70 today, he shows no signs of slowing down — literally. In fact, Irv Gordon — driver of the highest mileage vehicle on the road, a 1966 Volvo P1800 — aims to reach an unmatchable record sometime in the next three years.

With more than 2.8 million miles on his sporty red Volvo sports car, Gordon is celebrating his birthday by affirming his goal of reaching three million miles before his 73rd birthday forever enshrining him as an iron man in automotive endurance.

(July 8, 2010) GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Cars have been a big part of Adrian Overbee’s life since he was old enough to drive. Beginning with a 1939 Chevrolet coupe, he has owned and restored several antique cars over the past 45 years.

He also owned some new Detroit metal in his younger years that have become classic cars today including a 1959 Buick convertible and a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette.