Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Jay Leno got a close look at it for his show recently. * Anybody know anything about the Read more
Driving halfway across the country in a new car makes for a great time, but to really get the adrenaline going try it in a 50-year-old truck that you’ve just bought and that hasn’t run much in the last dozen years or so like the owner of this 1965 Ford Read more
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the owner, a local high school, never used it and had trouble keeping up with the graffiti that kept popping up on Read more
Photos Courtesy: Jeff Koch. It started innocently enough–with a boy and his bicycle. “In 1970, my bike was a Raleigh Chopper. It was orange and black–the same color as this Oldsmobile. I’ve kept it all these years, but as a kid I started noticing Oldsmobile 4-4-2s and Cutlasses painted the Read more
1966 Sunbeam Tiger. Photo Courtesy: David LaChance. If you’re among the many who got to know Andy Rooney through his weekly commentaries on 60 Minutes, you might describe him as irascible. Fellow CBS newsman Morley Safer fondly called him “America’s grouch-in-chief.” Author and news anchor Tom Brokaw once wrote, “Our Read more
Pride of Prescott – 1931 Seagrave Ladder Truck. Photo by Jeff Koch Professional vehicles, particularly fire apparatus, lead a charmed life. Or so we think. We typically see them being constantly washed, waxed and finely detailed on sunny days, and kept in tip-top mechanical order, but this kind of care Read more
1964 Mercury Comet durability run. All images are frame grabs from video below. This video produced for Lincoln-Mercury documents 40 days and nights of continuous punishment that a group of 1964 Comets, their drivers and crew endured to prove the all-new luxury compacts are durable. All was done under the Read more
From the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page comes this probably not-so-silent night-ish view of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from the late 1940s. Even if we didn’t have the cars to confirm that era for us, we can at least identify it by the fact that the Drake Hotel was renamed Read more
By almost anyone’s standards, the Land Rover Defender is a supremely capable off-road beast, but there are places that even a Defender fears to tread. That’s where this 1987 Land Rover 100 NCF Sahara, for sale on Hemmings.com, comes into play. Featuring a modified pickup body that minimizes the front Read more
Photo by Randy Dodson. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from reader Vance Mehlenbacher in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, and for obvious reasons we couldn’t pass it up. From all of us at Hemmings, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and thanks for reading! ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and in the Read more