Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
All photos are frame grabs from video below. It’s a Jam Handy film, so you know the first few minutes are just a setup — but we do so enjoy their creative spins on more mundane subject matters. So maybe it has something to do with salt water. Or setting Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Jaguar’s well-received range of sedans -pardon, saloons– worked alongside its famous XK sports cars to broaden the British automaker’s market penetration in the 1950s and early 1960s, and these pricey four-doors offered a peerless blend of luxurious accommodations, sporting performance and Read more
The idea behind the Austin-Healey Sprite was a simple one: Design a basic and low-cost sports car, compact enough to be stored in a bike shed. The Sprite was launched in 1958; Mark I versions featured headlamps atop the hood, giving the car the “frogeye” or “bugeye” nickname. Initially, power Read more
GT40 Mk IIA, chassis P1046, on its way to victory at Le Mans in 1966. Historic photos courtesy Ford Motor Company; restoration photos courtesy RK Motors. Ford’s 1-2-3 finish at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans kicked off a string of victories for the blue oval brand on the Read more
Billy Lane on a 1915 Harley-Davidson built for Shelly Rossmeyer-Pepe. Photos courtesy of Billy Lane’s Chopper Inc. Billy Lane of Choppers Inc. and Discovery Channel’s Biker Build-off and Monster Garage fame is a skilled motorcycle creator in his own right, and he’s planned a unique event for this year’s Biketoberfest: racing Read more
1968 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet posing on the line at Lebanon Valley Dragway. All photos by the author. Forgive me if I am telling you something you already know, but drag racing is not nearly as easy as it looks. Not even close. You wouldn’t think it possible to embarrass Read more
1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT brochure from the author’s collection. Most of us wouldn’t likely equate the Comet Cyclone GT with Russian spies, but it appears that Mercury wanted viewers of this film to believe that the updates to this car line for 1966 were so important the Soviet Union Read more
Chrysler pitched its 1956 New Yorker models as “The perfect combination of style and beauty, and a performance that is as exclusively Chrysler as is the new PowerStyle design.” That performance came courtesy of a 354-cu.in. FirePower V-8, fed by a single four-barrel carburetor and rated at 280 horsepower, second Read more
Parnelli Jones driving the Marmon Wasp in 2011. Photo by Jim Donnelly. When one of the Marmon Wasp’s tires blew on the brick surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 90 miles per hour, Ray Harroun could do little more than hold on as the Wasp headed toward a wall. Read more
As we’ve already seen, brothers Cliff and Larry Read have a talent for not only improving existing diecast models, but also transforming them from their original configurations to something entirely different, something we see with this Mack transformed from a fire truck into a fuel delivery truck. Gene Herman sent Read more