Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photos courtesy John Swigart. Everybody remembers their first car, whether it be a second-hand clunker or a fine piece of machinery – typically, as the years pass, the cars somehow transform from the former into the latter. But not everybody gets to hang on to that first car, and even Read more
You know those stories you hear about a guy, who knew a guy, whose plumber’s best friend once bought a Porsche 911 (or L88 Corvette, or Hemi ‘Cuda, or Boss 429 Mustang) from a woman whose husband had run off with his secretary, saying “sell the car and send me Read more
As an American who doesn’t speak a lick of French and hasn’t been to the country, it’s easy enough to scan today’s carspotting scene for a familiar word – Bordeaux! – and slap this up. However, that looks like the ocean at the end of the avenue, and Bordeaux ain’t Read more
Going vintage racing, conventional wisdom tells us, is not a game for the faint-of-wallet. Classic cars with established racing histories tend to be expensive, particularly if the buyer likes to turn lap times that are competitive in class. This 1965 Turner 1500 Mark III, for sale on Hemmings.com, clearly goes Read more
Win Rittall’s 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT-E. Photos by Russ Rocknak, courtesy of Owls Head Transportation Museum. In 1968, the highest-performance Mercury Cougar was the 427-powered Cougar GT-E. Just 357 of this single-year model were built, each with the three-speed Merc-O-Matic transmission, a disappointment for those who preferred to row Read more
Michael Argetsinger. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. Michael Argetsinger, an author, motorsports historian and a founder of the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, New York, died of cancer July 7 at his home in Chicago. He was 70. Argetsinger was a scion of one of Read more
Tire failure can have disastrous, and expensive, consequences. Photo by The Tire Zoo. Whether to use a tire plug or patch on a radial tire can be a controversial subject, especially depending on where the injury to the tire has occurred. Because of the flexibility of the sidewall on a Read more
From the pictures, this 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible for sale on Hemmings.com sure doesn’t look like an all-original unrestored example, but that’s just what the seller claims it to be, and we can indeed see how any top-of-the-line convertible such as this one would receive the utmost in care Read more
Fans of Michael Paul Smith’s work, particularly those who enjoyed the excerpt we ran from Smith’s latest book the other day, won’t want to miss this well-done short film profiling Smith and revealing his reasons for creating and exploring the fictional fractional town of Elgin Park. * Ride along with Read more
The Packard engine swap in this 1924 Delahaye for sale on Hemmings.com is rather unexpected, but not all that out of line, we’d argue. It’s large, powerful, somewhat of the era, and about as stately as the car it’s going into. Maximum performance almost seems beside the point, given that Read more