Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
For everybody out there who has ever expressed disappointment at seeing an original six-volt vehicle “butchered” with a 12-volt conversion, feast your eyes on this 1947 Fargo FL2-33 for sale on Hemmings.com, a heavier-than-light-duty export version of Dodge’s pickup with pretty much every factory specification in place, including the one Read more
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal shared a few photos of the Hansen Cobra in the museum. * Yes, articles on one-off Read more
Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 356 SC Cabriolet, sold for $1,760,000/All photos by Terry Shea The initial results are in and RM Sotheby’s second New York City auction, dubbed “Driven by Disruption,” yielded some impressive figures yesterday, most notably with a competition Ferrari, an extremely rare—and quick—Aston Martin, a culturally historic Read more
Before the onslaught of RC Cola, Logan’s Main Street had a lot more neon signs, as we can see from this photo from ElectroSpark’s Flickr stream, taken a about a block or two east and a quarter-century prior to our last look at this valley town. Parking’s also a little Read more
Big truck! Big truck is 1958 Dodge W300 Power Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. Big truck has four-wheel drive! Big truck has Isuzu diesel! Big truck has mechanical rebuild complete. Big truck come with headache rack. Big truck has look of turn-of-century boxer from Bowery or Five Points. Big truck Read more
Photos courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Donald Gilmore didn’t even care much for old cars before he retired, but his wife, Genevieve, figured he needed something, anything, to keep him busy after a long career in business, and decided an old Pierce-Arrow would do the trick. It did, and that Pierce-Arrow, Read more
Ray Evernham. Photo courtesy The Elegance at Hershey. Ray Evernham may be best known to racing fans as Jeff Gordon’s long-term crew chief, or for his role in leading Dodge back into NASCAR as a team owner in 2001, or even for his role as the star of Velocity’s Americarna, Read more
The Replicarz 1/18 scale 1967 STP Paxton turbine. Photos by Mark Fothergill, courtesy Replicarz, unless otherwise noted. With driver Parnelli Jones in the cockpit, the STP-sponsored, turbine-powered number 40 Indy Car ran in the lead throughout much of the 1967 Indianapolis 500, until the failure of a $6 bearing cost Read more
Photos by the author, except where noted. It could be argued that the muscle car era drew much of its inspiration and style from the American West. Try this on for size: The cowboy hat exudes the same freedom and power and, well, American-ness that a “Z/28” badge on a Read more
Longtime reader Stephane Dumas suggested we take a look at the City of Toronto’s archives for a series of photos that Harvey Naylor took of Queen Street during the early 1980s, and indeed, plenty of great carspotting photos came up, showing a variety of streetscapes, from downtown congestion to tree-lined Read more