Snow, mud, mountains: So you wanna live in Vermont?

Permit me, if you will, another indulgence in the vintage photography presented at the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program. We only scratched the surface of the program’s photo collection when we recently looked at the streets of Bennington and Miller Chevrolet-Cadillac’s old dealership. The archive has more than 35,000 photos, and unsurprisingly, most of […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Chrysler New Yorker

If there ever were a spiritual predecessor to the Dodge Magnum (or, more accurately, the 300C Touring), this 1956 Chrysler New Yorker station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com would be it. You got pure, unadulterated longroof styling without the hardtop flash or the fake wood typical of many 1950s/1960s station wagon, plus you got that […]

Early shoots of green – enviro-conscious cars in 1973

With the OPEC oil embargo against the United States just starting to lead to nationwide gas shortages, the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development at first glance seemed rather fortuitously timed.
Yet, as the very name of the symposium stated, its aims were less to reduce oil consumption by making vehicles more fuel efficient […]