Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
So it’s no show winner in its current shape, but this 1959 Cadillac Series 62 four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com looks like it’s only a few weekends away from being presentable and likely could hit the road as a driveable dream as is. In addition, the Sylvester and Tweetie Read more
1987 Dodge Ram Charger; image courtesy of Tracy Claus. We had a special assignment: To secure the scene of last year’s Hemmings Motor News Concours show field, a portion of which was to be set aside in 2015 for a class dedicated to the bane of all hot-footed motorists and Read more
1914 Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix race car. Photo by Peter Harholdt, courtesy The Revs Institute. The Historic Festival at Connecticut’s lovely Lime Rock Park has grown steadily into one of the nation’s premier vintage-racing events. For its 33rd running, which will take place September 3-7, the Lakeville road course will display Read more
Art by Barry Rowe. Images are courtesy of the AFAS Since its 1984 founding, the Automotive Fine Arts Society has worked tirelessly to legitimize and promote the automobile, and motoring subjects, as worthy subjects for master-quality fine artwork. For many years, the AFAS has had a tent at the prestigious Read more
Cropped image from 1982 magazine ad. Photos courtesy ProductionCars.com. In 1981, Pontiac introduced the third-generation Firebird Trans Am as a 1982 model, the car’s first clean-sheet redesign since the second-generation debuted in 1970 as a 1970 ½ model. Six years in the making, the new Trans Am was smaller and Read more
The Flickr archive of Hardee’s photos that Scott McElheney pointed out last month keeps on giving with these three views of the burger chain’s locations in the 1960s. The only one with a location affixed to it is the black-and-white photo below, which comes from Cleveland, Tennessee; the other two Read more
Those V-12 emblems are hard for any enthusiast to resist. Especially these days when Mercedes-Benz R129 SL600s are changing hands for one tenth of their original $130,000-plus purchase price. From 1993-2002 there were 11,086 SL600s built with the alloy, DOHC, 48-valve V-12, which in 1999, was making 389 hp and Read more
Based 2,300 miles away in Greenfield Center, New York, the guys from Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop feel strongly enough about Bonneville’s importance that they once again drove their creations cross-country to be there, despite Speed Week having been canceled. Photos by the author. This past Thursday I travelled out to the Bonneville Salt Read more
Publicity photo of the sole Cunningham C-1, taken in Palm Beach in 1950. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. Briggs Cunningham wanted nothing more than a victory at Le Mans in an American-built car of his own design. Backed by the family meat packing fortune (his middle name was Swift), Cunningham Read more
Photos by author. I was reminded this morning that just under six months ago the greater Northeast was buried under multiple feet of snow. In the next breath, the weather forecaster mentioned that we were in for a stretch of triple-H days: hazy, hot and humid. Which means that as Read more