Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photo courtesy Road Racing Drivers Club. Scott Pruett holds the record for victories in IMSA road-course competition, with an even 60 overall wins. And he’s still out there, running hard in a Daytona Prototype for Action Express Racing. That kind of record was more than sufficient to have Pruett named Read more
With the rest of the Internet going ape over the recently released photos of the Bugatti Chiron, we thought we’d look back over the confluence of the Volkswagen and Bugatti names, a tie-up that – would you believe it – goes back decades, as we can see from these photos Read more
By William Hall. Photos by the author. For a lot of folks, retirement looks like a lazy fishing hole or an endless round of golf. But a group of gearheads in Sun City West, Arizona, couldn’t imagine their golden years without wrenching on their rides. The planned retirement community has Read more
How much can you really know about a car that you haven’t owned from new yourself? In the case of this 1965 Austin-Healey Mk III BJ8, for sale on Hemmings.com, the answer is “quite a bit.” Purchased in June 1965 by a U.S. Naval officer stationed near Paris, the car Read more
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but with the Rabbit Cabriolet not due until the 1980 model year, Volkswagen sold its Beetle Convertible Read more
Photo courtesy London Classic Car Show. Day continues to follow night, grass remains green, and the inhabitants of one car-producing country maintain that their car industry has produced the best cars in the world. The most recent such declaration came toward the end of the recent London Classic Car Show, Read more
Photography by author. Back in the pre-war motoring days, few cars had heaters. Although under-dash heaters were a rare option, and dangerous as the early heaters used gasoline, even then many people couldn’t afford to pay the extra cost to have a heater fitted. One alternative option was this heater Read more
While the AACA Library’s working to digitize its existing film collection, as we learned this past week, it already has quite a few neat videos on its YouTube page, including the one above of the 1956 Eagle Rock Hill Climb. * We might not have had much of a winter Read more
Launched in 1990, the Z32 Nissan 300ZX was a radical departure from its predecessor, both in terms of styling and in performance. Clothed in sexy new sheetmetal, the reborn Nissan Z offered a reworked 3.0-liter V-6 that delivered 222 horsepower in normally aspirated form, more than the previous generation’s turbocharged Read more
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul. Gizmag has more on the project. * That Renault Dauphine cop car we had Read more