From the Miraculous Revelations and Surplus Materials Department here at Hemmings Publishing comes today’s handy recycling and reuse tip. Thanks to the valley of ingenuity that is Spring Carlisle, we have found a solution to the conundrum of what to Read more
The Kaiser Frazer Owners Club International chiseled out these 10 car-guy commandments for their May 2011 newsletter, and we subsequently spotted them on the justacarguy blog. Good advice here, though we recommend finding an employer who’s down with letting you Read more
Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees posted this photo showing a GM modelmaker in November 1954 with a pair of concepts, neither of which look much like the full-size Motorama concepts of the mid-1950s. Note the driver figure in Read more
Most car people familiar with the Besasie clan of Milwaukee probably know of them in connection with designer Brooks Stevens. Ray Besasie Sr. had been Stevens’ personal mechanic since 1940, Joe Besasie designed a number of concepts for Stevens – Read more
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 Read more
Then again, this commercial for the 1968 AMC Rebel hardtop came a year after the Marlin’s demise and several years before Abe Vigoda landed that role.
While it’s all too easy to compare the 1975 Hurst/Olds to its predecessors and find it lacking, not too many people bother to compare it to its competition, which in the mid-1970s was actually lacking. To see how it’s held Read more
Certainly one of the more unique vehicles to cross the auction block at the upcoming Auctions America by RM auction in Auburn, Indiana, next month will be this 1933 Pierce-Arrow, fitted with a custom body for a cinematographer for on-location Read more
Just like New York, Los Angeles is known the world over by some of its more famous streets and one of the most famous of those is Sunset Strip, captured on film in 1964 and 1967 and highlighted recently at Read more
If any of you know Geoff Hacker like we do, you’ll know that he’s like a terrier after a rat when it comes to tracking down information on the cars he’s interested in, going so far as to drive across Read more