Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1983 Toyota Hilux for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Owned by same family in the Southwest since original purchase. Runs smoothly and starts reliably. Parked in owner’s garage, and driven locally only 8,000 miles over the past 20 years. Extras/accessories: Dealer installed OEM A/C which blows ice-cold air. Read more
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until they become old enough to be trotted out as heritage vehicles or until some rich collector ponies Read more
The 2016 Concours d’Elegance of America at St. Johns Best in Show winners. Photo courtesy of the Concours d’Elegance of America. Prewar Packards have won their share of concours gold at events from coast to coast, so the Best in Show awarded to a 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible Read more
Since starting this series in 2014, we’ve received more than a few requests to broaden our horizons and include motorcycles in the $5,000 Challenge. As someone who once counted a bike as his only motorized transportation for three-plus years in Colorado, I’m all for it, but our classifieds don’t contain Read more
Magazine ads courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. When Dodge introduced its redesigned Charger for the 1968 model year, chief of design Bill Brownlie believed the sportier and more aerodynamic two-door hardtop penned by Richard Sais would appeal to a wider range of buyers than ever before. To reach the broadest possible audience, Read more
Date: circa 1951 Location: Granville Street and 11th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver archives, via Those Old Cars What do you see here?
1963 Chevrolet Impala, Owner Lee Cordova of Alcalde, New Mexico, 1998. Photo by Jack Parsons, courtesy New Mexico Digital Collections. In the mid-Eighties, MTV descended on the northern New Mexico city of Española and declared it – not Los Angeles, not El Paso, but Española – the lowriding capital of Read more
Chris Amon (R) with Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1967. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Best remembered for his win in the Ford GT40 Mk IIA with co-driver Bruce McLaren in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, Chris Amon was also renowned for his bad luck behind the wheel Read more
The winged hood crest from a 1937 Cord 812 SC Phaeton. Photo by Jill Reger. We all know the Auburn Automobile Company for its achingly beautiful and meticulously engineered cars, especially from the 1930s. Many of us likely are unaware, however, that its automobiles actually had close ties to the Read more
Images courtesy of the author’s collection. Starting with the 1966 model year and continuing on into the early ’70s, a recurring magazine-ad motif for Ford’s personal-luxury Thunderbird centered on pilots, air travel, the freedom of the open sky, and endless possibilities ahead. Other similar motifs were blue skies, overhead panels full Read more