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Buddy Baker at Daytona in 1968. Photos courtesy NASCAR Media. He was big, he was brawny, he was fast and utterly fearless. It finally took inoperable lung cancer to bring down the superspeedway hero Buddy Baker, who died yesterday morning at his home on Lake Norman in North Carolina. He Read more
1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa convertible. Photos by Vern Sundbom, unless otherwise noted. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings Daily regular, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senator Don Homuth. In December of 1967 I was still in Viet Nam, but things had become fairly quiet in Read more
Model AA Ford Crane & Cradle truck. Photos by author. Of the approximately 4.3-million plus Model A Fords built during its five-year long production, which ran from 1927 to 1931, some 482,850 were trucks. These included light duty pickup trucks, panel deliveries, Town Car Delivery and Special Delivery models. The Read more
Those old cars sure were made of sterner stuff. Heavier steel, you know. Why, I once saw a 50-car pileup in the middle of an intersection downtown. Cars and trucks and buses tossed everywhere like a jumble of toys in a nursery. And you know what? Not a dent or Read more
On the one hand, you hate to see somebody have to give up a car they inherited from a relative, especially when the car meant so much to that relative, as this 1967 Imperial Crown four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com meant to the seller’s grandparents. On the other hand, Read more
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Photo by Erik Charlton. With the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion approaching this week, speculation has escalated that the longtime operators of the historic natural-terrain road circuit in central California are about to be displaced. Published reports indicate that International Speedway Corporation, the race track-owning arm of Read more
Clark Gable’s Packard Darrin. Photo courtesy Neil Boyer. This much is certain: Clark Gable was one of us. He appreciated all automobiles, from souped-up Model T’s engaging in stoplight races around Los Angeles to the most august Full Classics. He loved auto racing. There’s a pretty well-known photo of Gable Read more
Photos courtesy Petrolhead. Prewar Bugattis, particularly those with a documented racing history, are rare and expensive automobiles. Type 35 models, perhaps the most iconic of early racing Bugattis, typically sell for a half million dollars and up, with one example (formerly owned and raced by “Bugatti Queen” Helle Nice) achieving Read more
Though engineered and built in France, the Renault Caravelle can lay claim to some American roots. Pierre Dreyfus, the company’s chief executive, was heading to the U.S. in the spring of 1957 to promote the new Dauphine, and accepted an invitation to visit Florida, issued by Governor LeRoy Collins at Read more
“Edsel – the car that is already making automotive history for the Ford Motor Company.” Yeah, but what kind of history? We’ve all read of the optimism and exuberance with which the Edsel was launched, and there’s perhaps no better display of that than in this video introducing the 1958 Read more