Field trip to a dirt parking lot, circa 1957

Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org Exactly where the above photo was taken we’re not 100 percent sure. According to Robert Woolmington, who provided the photo from the Rueben Greene collection, it’s been suggested that the location was either somewhere west of Shaftsbury, Vermont, or possibly over in Saratoga Springs, New York. We tend to […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Nash Metropolitan

We’ve seen these sorts of hook-and-ladder conversions – meant primarily to ferry kids around amusement parks in the 1950s and 1960s – on Crosleys before, but this is the first one we’ve seen based on a Metro. The seller of this 1960 Metropolitan hasn’t yet included a description of it, but from the photos, we […]