Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
August 2, 2015, offloading the car from the transporter. Photos courtesy Don Homuth. Editor’s note: Last August, we brought you the story of Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senator Don Homuth’s improbable quest for, and later purchase of, the 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa convertible he’d Read more
Reader Larry Ulm recently sent us a couple of images – above and below – of what was possibly the Lincoln Highway’s most famous attraction in Pennsylvania: the Grand View Ship Hotel, situated about 17 miles west of Bedford, where visitors could take in an expansive view. Never originally a Read more
A DS wagon? Bien sur, mes amis. In the late 1950s, worried about losing market share to new station wagons introduced by Simca, Renault and Peugeot, Citroën decided to create a cargo-friendly version of its spectacular DS. The design was created by chief body engineer Pierre Franchiset, and construction was partially subcontracted Read more
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. In the Packard Eight range, one model was entirely new to the lineup, blending the style of the four-door Touring Sedan Read more
Just in time to distract us from our gray Vermont winter comes a batch of photos to remind us of how much fun we had last fall on the America’s British Reliability Run. Nick Zabrecky and Andrew Paolucci of MotorCar Studios in Philadelphia took part in the three-day run, driving a client’s Jaguar E-type (above), and came Read more
Wade Kawasaki’s restored 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge. Post-restoration photos courtesy Coker Tire. Blame it on Facebook: after reconnecting with a high school friend on social media, Coker Tire president and COO Wade Kawasaki paid him a visit during a vacation trip to Hawaii. In his friend’s garage sat a remarkably Read more
Let’s stay in St. Petersburg and in 1958 and with ElectroSpark’s found photos for today’s carspotting exercise, starting with the above image looking east on Central Avenue. Might it be December in this shot? And below, it appears we’re on the Second Avenue pier, which these days leads out to Read more
In its day, this six-cylinder 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com was the equivalent of a Toyota Camry: produced in huge quantities for mass consumption, generic and invisible and perfectly suited to blending in with traffic, and utterly incomprehensible in terms of ever becoming a collector Read more
Robert S. Jepson, Jr. (center) accepting the Best of Show award for his 1919 Pierce-Arrow. He’s flanked by Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance Founders Rick & Rita Case (L), Heather Glace, and Brian Quail, President/CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County (R). Photos by Robert Stolpe unless otherwise Read more
Photo courtesy FCA. Under existing law, the Dodge Viper above – along with any car manufactured after 1988 – has a snowball’s chance of making its way to Australia and remaining there, but a set of rule changes proposed for the island continent nation could soon change that. When it Read more