Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us, showing a stretch of businesses along Farmington Avenue just east of Girard. Quite possibly for the first time in this entire collection of photos, we Read more
At what point does a restoration on a car become an “older restoration?” Perhaps that doesn’t depend so much on time passed since the restoration, but on a car’s usage since and maintenance of its restoration. For example, this 1961 Chevrolet Corvair 700 Lakewood station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com Read more
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he probably cared more about how fast he got to the show field in his amalgam of Packard, Read more
Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you’ve never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl was a gifted mechanic and designer out of the York, Pennsylvania, area who came up with Read more
Photo by Randy Rundle. As with the previous installment, this tool (or more correctly, die set) comes to us from reader Randy Rundle. Though the scale is not provided, the largest die (on the right) probably measures about five inches in diameter, give or take an inch. The smaller die, Read more
In the early 1970s, Chrysler had a significant share of the law enforcement market, thanks to offerings like the Plymouth Fury, the Dodge Polara, the Dodge Cornet and the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite. While preserved or restored examples aren’t exactly rare, they are uncommon, as the ravages of police work (and later, Read more
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he owns that very pickup, as we see in this Aficionauto video (via) * “The Banger Read more
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor wrote this week – Hevec Classic Cars in the Netherlands decided to build a Read more
After years of playing whack-a-mole with electrical gremlins in my 1971 Volvo 1800E, I decided to start from scratch with a brand-new wiring harness. However, as you can tell from the nearly two-year absence of updates on this project, you can see that it’s no mere weekend project. Still, it’s Read more
Returning to the college parking lot photo series that Dean Luchaco sent us, we see just how bad the parking situation was, with not a spot left in this lot and with cars lining the street that connects the lot to what we presume would be the main campus. We Read more