It took all winter, but I finally freed up enough cash for a new carpet set from ACC recently. While the carpet sets normally come with the shredded rags-type backing glued to the carpet, a friend of mine recommended specifying Read more…
Driver Jim Menneto gives the Speedster a last walk around before loading up for Joplin. I have posted numerous times about the improvements and repairs we completed on the Hemmings Speedster over the long cold Vermont months (which may be over Read more…
If you happened to check the Making of Modern Michigan photo archive after we mentioned it in our recent post, and if you happened to search for dealerships as we did, then you probably saw a preponderance of Packard purveyorships Read more…
While we’ve outlined the proposed federal cash for clunkers program and we’ve looked at several similar programs outside America, the fight against these programs should not stop there. In fact, there’s probably a greater threat of seeing one of these Read more…
Earlier this week, a lot of play was given to the Mythbusters episode that tried to pancake a Fiesta out in the desert, which was rather entertaining, but last night’s episode pissed me off just a little bit: As part Read more…
The constant research here at the Hemmings offices takes some of us to odd little corners of the Internet, and sometimes those corners are full of little wonders. For instance, I recently came across the Making of Modern Michigan online Read more…
…yet when I put this in the back of my Grand Caravan, I got slower! I keed, I keed. But the 360 seen here, is more or less complete, cost me $400, and after a quickie refresh will get dropped Read more…
In response to Richard Lentinello’s post featuring myself, Jim and Terry hard at work: That’s Rich behind the lens, with Jim at the reflector, clicking off a detail shot of the 150hp straight-eight under the hood of Ryan Newman’s 1949 Read more…
If you are between 30 and 40 years old, and sniffed around the post-new-wave alternative-music scene in your high school and college years, you may have heard, or heard of, Laibach, the Slovenian high-art agit-prop band perhaps best known in this country for Read more…
I mentioned a few days ago that I’ve been getting my garage in order in preparation for the eventual day when we have warm weather again in Vermont, and one task that I’ve busied myself with lately is the rehab Read more…