Category: Old Cars
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Captured: 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS
I saw one of these being pulled along on a flatbed trailer the other day as I drove home from work. It even had the same “396” badge on the fender, meaning it packed big-block V8 heat. But I care less about the engine underhood than I do about styling — and I always liked…
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Carspotting 2014
Whenever I see an old car parked, I photograph it. It’s become tradition at Down the Road to share the annual crop with you as the year wraps up. I’ve adjusted that tradition this year: the bar for inclusion was lowered from 25 to 20 years. I’ve shared many of these cars with the audience at Curbside…
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A random car show
I almost didn’t share these photos. I know you may not love cars as much as I do, and I’ve posted so many car pics lately. But these photos turned out so well, with candylike colors and piercing clarity, that I couldn’t resist. On our way home from Auburn last month, we followed a long old alignment…
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Bespoke in black and white
I wished I had an f/1.4 lens for my Nikon F2 last month when I visited the classic car museums in Auburn, Indiana. My f/2 prime would have left me with a mighty narrow in-focus patch; I wanted that extra stop of exposure. I had just had good luck with my Yashica Lynx 14e indoors…
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The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum
I grew up in museums, thanks to my dad’s best friend running the art museum at Notre Dame. I’ve been to endless openings and I’ve walked through myriad exhibits. I know museums. They don’t intimidate me. So I was unprepared to be stunned and overwhelmed by the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg museum. The dizzying array of cars and…
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1962 Chevy NovaCanon PowerShot S952014
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Auburn reflected in the CordCanon PowerShot S952014
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A visit to the National Auto and Truck Museum
As long as I’ve been online — and that’s 25 years now — whenever a virtual community thrives, it eventually wants to meet in person. The community at Curbside Classic, the old-car blog for which I write, is no exception. I had to miss last year’s inaugural meetup, but I didn’t want to miss this year’s meetup…
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Chrome teethOlympus XA, Arista Premium 4002013
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Black ChryslerOlympus XA, Arista Premium 4002013
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1956 Continental hood ornamentNikon F2AS (review), 50mm f/2 AI Nikkor, Kodak Plus-X Pan2014
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Imagining the stories behind old photographs of cars that weren’t that old yet
Even for someone who doesn’t love cars like I do, a new car can be a point of pride of pleasure. How many of us have photographs of ourselves with our new cars shortly after we got them? Perhaps that’s why this smiling woman was photographed with her 1966 Falcon. The Kodachrome slide from which…