Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photo by Mike Yoksich, courtesy Greg Koesel. Going fast in a straight line doesn’t necessarily require a V-8 engine or even one with overhead valves, as a group of inline- and flathead-powered drag racers intend to prove at next month’s special drag racing session in conjunction with the annual Inliners Read more
Richard Douglas with sons Lloyd (L), Asa (C) and Zeb (R). Photos by author. Richard Douglas is a big fan of our $5,000 Challenge series, as it drives home the message that one doesn’t need to be wealthy to purchase a collector car. A carpenter by trade with a wife Read more
1969 Ford Torino Talladega. Brochure images courtesy Old Car Manual Project. It was the Dodge Charger 500 that fired the first salvo in NASCAR’s “Aero Wars” of 1969 and 1970, but Ford wasted little time in shooting back. Though nowhere near as outlandish as the later Dodge Charger Daytona and Read more
Getting this 1958 GAZ M21 Volga for sale on Hemmings.com home might be a little tougher than just scheduling a pickup with a transporter, and there might be a little more paperwork to go with its purchase than with most collector cars but, hey, not only has it been restored Read more
Ferrari 750 Monza chassis 0510M. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. It was raced in-period, with impressive success, by Phil Hill, Carroll Shelby and Jim Hall. For the past six decades, it’s been in Hall’s private collection, and it’s reportedly one of the few four-cylinder Ferrari sports racers of Read more
Chet Krause at Iola in 2013. Photo courtesy John Gunnell. Chet Krause spent his entire life in Iola, Wisconsin, where he got his start tearing down Ford Model Ts for salable parts. He bootstrapped those experiences into a long line of books and magazines aimed at hobbyists, mainly of the Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. With a sleep-inducing introduction awkwardly read from cue cards by Murray, then-president of the American Road Builders’ Association, we wonder if the Jam Handy film crew might have scheduled this particular gem after hours. Way after. Even the good dispatcher looks as Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Ford secured the Thunderbird’s future for decades to come when it debuted the second generation in 1958. This small, six-panel fold-out brochure is dated “1/58” and exclusively highlights the new fixed-roof Hardtop model, rather than showing both that and the Read more
According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we’re in Ferndale – specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward – sometime during the Fifties. And if we check out the modern-day street view of the location, we can surmise that the photo was taken Read more
The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be modified. By the end of the decade, the staging lanes at local dragstrips were clogged with Foxes. If you were Read more