More From The 2026 Greenwood Car Show

It isn't often I look at a car and have no idea what it is. This is a rare and very cool Brazilian Volkswagen SP2. Made around 1973, underneath the skin it's the same car as the Type 3.

Rare 1964 Studebaker. The South Bend IN plant closed at the end of 1963 and Studebakers were made for two more years in Canada.

Packard straight 8 from the mid-50s. I was just thinking how much it looks like a LEGO.

Pierce-Arrow. The biggest problem driving this car in the 1930s was the starving people throwing rocks at you.

This Ford Model A has had some restoration work but it remarkably original.

Nash Metropolitan built in England for American Motors.

This 1971 Jaguar XKE was the brand's first 12-cylinder car. Congratulations are due to the owner, as this car is almost impossible to keep running.

1955 For Thunderbird with a 1956-7 removable hardtop.

Jaguar XK120 from around 1949. The fastest car in the world when it was made.

VW Beetle from the late 50s. The speedometer is the only gauge. If you run out of gas, you operate a tiny lever on the floor that gives you one more gallon to get to a gas station.

MG TC from the late 1940s. The remarkable thing about keeping this car on the road: the frame is made of wood. The car used a traditional coachbuilt construction method, featuring steel body panels nailed or screwed onto an internal structural framework made of ash. As in the ash tree.

1922 Baker Electric. These cars were popular with women because they were easy to drive, quiet, and didn't break down. It's too bad all the old electric models disappeared by the 1930s.

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Old Cars on Shilshole Bay Marina

A lot of folks store their extra car in the big lots out where Ballard meets the water. There are quite a few curiosities parked out there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three old VW buses in one shot. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chevy redesigned the Corvair in 1965 after the car's reputation was pretty much already ruined. As to whether this second-generation Corvair Corsa was safe or not, I don't really have an opinion. Some of these cars were turbocharged. Those rims are from a BMW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not the same car twice, just the same color. These old Benz diesels are hard to kill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plenty of old Beetles in the land that rust mostly forgot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This MG is immaculate. It must only be here for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

And finally, on the other side of the road. If you own a 1983 Lincoln Continental Mark VI and a 1966 Dodge D100 van, you are my kind of weird.

 

 

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1957 MG MGA

The British automobile industry was playing catch up with car makers from other countries in the 1950s. The MGA was the first car in its T-series that did not have a frame and body made partially of wood. The floorboards, however, were made of plywood.

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