Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no way of knowing that his fiberglass molding efforts would be the start of a business empire. From humble beginnings, Eckler’s Corvette Read more
There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, or secret stashes of Tuckers, but it still has a sense of playfulness in it, Read more
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s origins — we heard from the seller, who heard from the son of the car’s Read more
While we’re going through old Charles Cushman pictures, let’s drop this one from April 1968, taken on the corner of North Point Street and Broderick in San Francisco. We don’t see vintage construction machinery in our carspotting series all that often, so this is a chance not only to identify Read more
Photos courtesy AACA Library. [Editor’s Note: Steve Moskowitz of the Antique Automobile Club of America recently sent us this writeup regarding an extensive donation to the club’s library.] Holy cow, Batman, a trailer-truck load of literature has arrived at the AACA Library & Research Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania! Yes, a Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catchphrases had already been used up, due to the prodigious number of film shorts being produced by Jam Handy and similar production companies, let alone those guys in Hollywood. Read more
All images courtesy of BMW AG. “Race car for the street” is an oft-overused phrase, frequently applied to the likes of garden-variety sports and GT cars alike. But, sometimes, when a manufacturer must homologate a car by building it in quantity to make it legal for a racing series, you Read more
Also while clearing out old bookmarks, we came across a few Charles W. Cushman photos we haven’t yet used in our carspotting series, including these two from Colorado Springs. Above, we see the Antlers Hotel, which looks rather different these days, in October 1953. Below, a view of Pikes Peak Read more
When the 405 debuted on these shores in 1989, French automaker Peugeot perhaps believed it was the car to reverse its fortunes in the American market. Despite initially offering three distinct versions of the front-drive sedan here (and later adding a 405 station wagon to the mix), the model failed Read more
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. They’re considered some of the rarest Mustangs ever built, but more importantly they’re also the very first vehicles to arise out of Ford’s Special Vehicle Operations division, and now the serial No. 1 Mustang M-81 and the McLaren Mustang IMSA car will head to auction as Read more