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Carspotting 2012
As a certified car nut, I love to come upon old cars still on the road. After realizing last year that I’d photographed several, enough to make a blog post about it, I decided this year to make a point...
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Auto typography
Every May I go to the giant Mecum Spring Classic muscle car auction held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. It is one of the top-five most favorite things I do for myself every year. I spend many happy...
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Carspotting, Route 66 edition
I photographed so many old cars along Route 66 that I just couldn’t save them for my annual end-of-the-year Carspotting post. Here they all are, from east to west. 1966 Chevrolet/Superior school bus....
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It’s classic-car week at Down the Road!
I almost didn’t make it to this year’s Mecum Spring Classic muscle-car auction. We were in crisis mode at work, cleaning up the mess after a software deployment went wrong. Thursday was to be my day...
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Favorite cars from the 2013 Mecum Spring Classic
I go to the Mecum auction every May hoping to see cars I’ve never seen in person before, great examples of some cars I’ve known and loved for years, and some rare and unusual cars. I was not...
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Getting very close to classic cars
Of the photos I took last week at the Mecum Spring Classic, I like these best. I do love to move in close with my camera to find interesting details. 1970 Plymouth Road Runner. I’ve seen dozens of Road...
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1966 Ford Custom 500
I have always thought this was the coolest tail light ever. Maybe it’s because two were attached to the 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 my dad owned when I was a very small boy. I got to spend a lot of time...
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People watching at the Mecum Spring Classic
Late in the afternoon it began to rain, hard. I was spent after eight hours on my feet photographing the cars at the 2013 Mecum Spring Classic, but I didn’t want to walk a quarter of a mile in a...
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Captured: 64 Chevy tail
Even though I thought my dad’s ’66 Ford was cool when I was a youngster, even then I had to admit that Chevrolet styling was superior across the board. The triple tail lights on Impalas were always...
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Captured: Fury
Here’s another photo I took with my Olympus XA on Arista Premium 400 at the Mecum auction last month. This is my favorite shot on the roll, of the long flank of a 1958 Plymouth Fury. The giant West...
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Chronicling old cars
Since being asked to contribute to Curbside Classic early this year I’ve kept up a one-post-a-week pace over there, chronicling the old cars I see still in use. The site’s mission is basically to do...
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Carspotting 2013
For years now, I’ve photographed old cars when I’ve encountered them. For the past couple years, I’ve shared the ones I’ve found with you here (see my 2011 and 2012 lists). But now I look for old cars...
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Why do so many modern sedans look alike?
A version of this post appeared at Curbside Classic a couple weeks ago. I contribute there from time to time. Its primary mission is to document the old cars still rolling on the road, but we consider...
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Captured: Me, Van, July, 1982
Here I am, a month away from turning 15, leaning on Dads’s big old Chevy van (read its story here) which is parked in my parents’ driveway. Oh man, does this photo stir up a lot inside me. First, I’m...
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If it weren’t for all the disposable income car collectors have, I’d never...
The Mecum Spring Classic vintage car auction comes to the Indiana State Fairgrounds for six days every May, and I always take a day off work to go see the cars. This year, my day was a little...
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Up close and personal with vintage automobiles
My favorite thing to do at the Mecum Spring Classic vintage-car auction is move in close to the cars’ details with my camera. At the Mecum, you can get close enough to the cars to touch them! (But...
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Shooting Kodak Plus-X Pan
Long ago, Kodak’s three main black-and-white films were Verichrome Pan, Plus-X Pan, and Tri-X Pan. Only Tri-X Pan is still made, albeit improved over its original 1940 formulation. Kodak discontinued...
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1950 Hudson Commodore
My favorite car at this year’s Mecum auction was a pale yellow 1950 Hudson Commodore convertible. I photographed it extensively on Kodak Plus-X Pan film with my Nikon F2AS and my 50mm f/2 AI Nikkor...
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Car parts on Kodak T-Max 400
I love both of Kodak’s ISO 400 black-and-white films, Tri-X and T-Max, but for different reasons: Tri-X when I want that grainy look, and T-Max when I don’t. I didn’t when I photographed the cars at...
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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...
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