For crying out loud, don’t ask me how I missed this. I have family roots in Pennsylvania, went to school there, lived there and love the snacks it produces, most of all the baked variety. So imagine my shock to Read more…
I think we finally figured out how to post YouTube videos here. I know, it only took us forever and a day, but hey, we get paid for producing high-quality magazines, not for tinkering under the hood of this here Read more…
According to Time magazine, 50 years ago, 44-year-old Woody Bell drove a Rambler American Deluxe to a 25.2878 miles per gallon victory in the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. The marathon mileage competition was run over five days and 1,898 miles Read more…
If you caught my last post about real deals under 5K, some of you may easily recall the black 1979 Chevy Malibu parked right next to a white 1978 Pontiac Grand Le Mans. Both were coupes, and at the time, Read more…
In today’s Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter, you’ll read about the recently started effort by Geoff Hacker to re-create Bill Burke’s very first bellytank dry lakes racer, a front-engined junkyard-sourced P-51-bodied vehicle worth 131.96 MPH in 1946 (sitting on a bicycle seat Read more…
As Rollan Jerry wrote in the recent SIA Flashback article on coachbuilt trucks, many such vehicles were built in Canada for beer brewers because Canadian laws at the time banned them from advertising their products in print. Apparently that ban Read more…
For the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve been working on a story on the Staver automobile. Little is known of either the company or the car, but I think I’ve succeeded in tracking down just about everything that can be tracked Read more…
It seems like the tide of public opinion on cash for clunkers has turned heartily to the negative in recent days. That is, outside of vapid local TV news programs, which all seem to be running boilerplate stories that barely Read more…
I know it seems unlikely to those who grew up in places where cars rust, or if you’re old enough to have looked askance at Japanese cars when they started rolling out on American soil in larger numbers, but there Read more…
There isn’t much information on the IRS auction site: “Under the authority in Internal Revenue Code section 6331, the property described below has been seized for nonpayment of internal revenue taxes due from Taxpayer. The property will be sold at Read more…