Look down beside the pedals of an older car and you may find a small metal button poking through the carpet. It is easy to mistake for an abandoned starter or some ingenious accessory installed by a p
Long before carmakers filled dashboards with screens, an important piece of engine information was displayed outside the windshield. Early automobiles often carried their radiator filler caps at
A classic car could provide a cigarette lighter within easy reach of the driver, another for the front passenger and sometimes individual ashtrays for the people in the back. Yet bring a cup of coffee
Automotive fashion has produced few ideas quite as curious as taking a finished steel roof, covering it in textured plastic and charging the customer extra. For several decades, buyers did exactly tha
Park a 1940s Jeep beside a Chevrolet sedan, an early Volkswagen Beetle and a British roadster, then look closely at their headlights. The surrounding bodies could hardly be more different. The glass c
Whitewall tires have become visual shorthand for a particular kind of motoring glamour. Put them on a long Cadillac with chrome bumpers, tailfins and enough hood to host a family picnic, and the pi
Some cars are best left as prototypes. Maybe the design's too wild for production or the tech's so experimental it wouldn't work in everyday use. Doesn't mean they can't be fascina
Regular people collect baseball cards, stamps, comic books. Gets pricey sometimes but mostly just hobbies for people with a little cash to spare. Celebrities making millions? They go big. Lots of famo
The Automotive Hall of Fame is mostly filled with combustion engines. But as the industry shifts toward electric, the question comes up: will any EVs eventually earn a spot among the greats? Last year
An opera window is that little fixed window you see on the side of older cars, usually sitting in the C-pillar behind the rear door. It's small, often oval or rectangular, and it doesn't open.