After digging up Abe Vigoda’s AMC Rebel commercial, oldmertz suggested we go looking for the AMC Ambassador commercial with Robert DeNiro in it. Twenty-seven years old at the time, DeNiro had already landed a few movie appearances, but he was still a few years away from his breakout roles in “Bang the Drum Slowly” and […]

Most communities today have some kind of bookmobile, generally a large, bus-like conveyance made by Blue Bird and such that allows you to climb aboard, browse and check out a title. According to the Antique Automobile Club of America, some of the earliest known publicly operated bookmobiles were used by Washington County, Maryland, the rural […]

This 1935 Auburn 851 for sale on Hemmings.com has certainly led an eventful life, as the seller tells the story. Originally built in right-hand drive for export to England, its noble owner took it to Paris where the Third Reich seized it and presumably bombed around Europe in it before it somehow went back to […]