Tell ya what: Instead of football football football tomorrow, why not pop in a copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the whole clan to watch while digesting all that turkey? It’s not only a great family film, but one Read more…
What’d I tell ya about the barn finds yesterday? Here’s another, a 1960 Austin-Healey BT7 being offered for $7,950 out of Osseo, Minnesota. From the seller’s description: 1960 Austin-Healey BT7 3000, barn find, stored for 35 years, good restoration project Read more…
Inspired by both McCourt’s baby photo in a Squareback (above) and BigLorryBlog’s recent request of photos of their reader’s first trucks, along with the impending holidays, we’re going to ask you loyal Hemmings Blog readers to share with us your Read more…
Air-cooled Volkswagens are some of my first and fondest automotive associations, dating back to the 1971 Squareback in which I rode home from the hospital in 1974, and the stories I heard of the 1962 Sedan that was my mother’s first car. Vroom, Read more…
This issue is primarily dedicated to prove that the ’49-’51 Fords have not lost the customizer’s interest.
Our skilled friend and featured Hemmings Classic Car Auto Artist Frank Schaeffer has been busy with a special project that was directly influenced by HMN blogmeister Dan Strohl’s article on a storied 1914 Mercer Raceabout in HCC, as well as Dan’s 17-part series of Mercer Maximus postings. We’ll let Read more…
We recently happened upon some publicity photos issued by the Ford Motor Company that illustrate some of their design studies, as they’re termed commonly today, for the 1966 show car season. As you’ll see, they were lifted almost directly from Read more…
Ralph Hamlin was a rather active fellow. He claimed to have owned the first motorcycle west of the Rockies, apparently started a bicycle shop, participated in many automobile races and even participated in the committee that organized the early Los Read more…
Over the weekend, I took in the Rumblers sixth annual Rumble in the Country down in Terryville, Connecticut, both because I needed to restock on hot rod profiles for Hemmings Motor News and because I’d always heard good things about Read more…
Shut off the alarm clock, jump out of bed, clean up, inhale some breakfast, scramble to the car, and drive to the show field. Check. You’re still late…ish – nine in the morning – and there’s only four cars on Read more…