For their 15th anniversary, the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is featuring a one-off roadster, “originally conceived and built by a widely-respected and distinguished automotive engineer.” The catch is, they’re not saying who, but we’re betting this will be child’s play Read more…
Comics have traditionally not been a rich source of car fun, but there’s an occasional mention, enough for me to have a couple comic art blogs in my reading list. The best of these, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, popped Read more…
Why, why, why, why, haven’t I thought of this until now? In all the months we’ve been playing the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve yet to work the Bacon in there. Not Kevin Bacon, but the product Read more…
All this talk of movie cars this week has me looking through the Hemmings.com classifieds for more. I see some Bentleys and Rolls-Royces owned by movie studio executives, Miley Cyrus’s Mini, Bruce Willis’s 1988 Lincoln limousine, a 1960 Ford Country Read more…
You know Martha’s Vineyard – it’s that island off Massachusetts where the rich and famous go to make a big show of dodging the paparazzi for a couple of weeks each summer. So what’s the likes of me doing there? Read more…
This is a brochure for a Nissan Sunny Vanette. From what little we can make out of the date coding on the back of it, we’d say late 80s/early 90s, but it seems a lot older than that. Doesn’t it? Read more…
Our friend Geoff Hacker would like to know more about this image of a pontoon-fendered roadster that he found (the image, not the roadster, though I have no doubt of his ability to turn up the car itself someday) in Read more…
I see in TA’s post on movie and TV cars that nobody’s yet mentioned the Bugaloo dune buggy, based on a Barris-designed 1971 Asve. Sandy Johnston’s Bugaloo fan site has more on the buggy used in the show, which now Read more…
While not all of the Lee clan seem to be as car nutty as a couple of its members, Jim and John, they’re at least as entertaining, with plenty of car memories among the 10 of them (five boys, five Read more…