Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
What do you prefer: a numbers-matching car with low miles and lots of original parts, or a clean restoration that deviates from original for the sake of enhanced performance? If you’re of the latter mindset, this 1973 Ford Mustang convertible, for sale on Hemmings.com, may be the wind-in-your-hair summer cruiser Read more
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago tattooed the phrase on the side of an incredibly well-equipped and preserved 1929 Studebaker house car – complete with toilet, bathtub, and Read more
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent decades immersed in the business and the art of imagining brand-new cars – and you’ll get Read more
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of the two brothers has a skill for modifying old diecast vehicles, which is certainly not Read more
1965 Buick Riviera “Clamshell” headlamps doors closed and open; images by Jeff Koch Simply put, the 1965 model year is the quintessential Riviera among collectors and enthusiasts alike. Much has been written regarding the third year of Bill Mitchell’s first-generation Riviera design over the years, most of it in general Read more
Plenty of places have called themselves a Disneyland for car guys, but apparently the real Disneyland for car guys was at Disneyland itself way back on its grand opening in 1955 – that is, right outside of Disneyland in its parking lot. Flickr user Tom Simpson has plenty of photos Read more
Amazing how a series of windows can change the whole character of a vehicle. Take, for instance, this 1962 Ford Falcon E11 Station Bus for sale on Hemmings.com, technically a Falcon and not an Econoline and thus more of a family wagon than a utility truck. Of course, these days Read more
Photo courtesy SEMA. Some of the largest legislative issues of concern to collector car enthusiasts – among them the Environmental Protection Agency’s racecar ruling and the spread of ethanol-blended fuels – will be up for discussion as the Specialty Equipment Market Association gathers its members for a rally next month Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well then, have we got a film for you, featuring Rube Goldberg at age 57, as only Jam Handy could Read more
[Editor’s Note: Daniel Lindquist of KDC Garage not only has some interesting ideas about alternate automotive histories, he can also render those histories in Photoshop and form a narrative around them. One of his latest: an Edsel-flavored Thunderbird.] The Ford Thunderbird began life in 1953 as a direct response to Read more