Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The leaking fork seal on my R1100R. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. Vermont winters are long and unpredictable, which means that any riding-season repairs need to be carried out with all due haste. Thanks to prompt shipment of the parts needed to replace the left fork seal on my Read more
Brochure images are from the Hemmings archives Fiat created an inexpensive and youthful masterpiece with their new-in-the-USA-for-1967 850 Spider, an open-top sibling to the equally new and pretty 850 Sport Coupe. While the Sport Coupe was styled by Felice and Gian Boano and built in-house at Fiat, the Spider came from the pens Read more
Longtime readers will recall this photo of Vern Sion, Mel Keys, and Volmer Jensen with the 11-foot NCC-1701 model from a story on Keys’s various accomplishments from years back, and on the suggestion of a reader, we’re going to recycle the photo as today’s carspotting scene. The date: December 1964. Read more
If you can’t have the original of something, you might as well have a replica of it, and if you’re going to have a replica of something, you might as well have it built by the same guy that built the original, as is the case with this 1964 Chevrolet Read more
Mario Andretti’s 1969 Nomex fire suit. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions. By anyone’s definition, Mario Andretti is one of the greatest drivers in the history of motorsports, racking up championships in F1 and Indy Car, along with countless race wins in series as diverse as midget cars, sports cars and stock Read more
A Land Rover Series III, one of the Heritage Collection vehicles available to driver. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Want to go off-roading in a classic Land Rover Series I or expedition-prepped Range Rover? Wonder what it would be like to drive a 101 Forward Control, designed as a transporter Read more
The incomparable Silver Ghost is one of the most revered cars ever built by Rolls-Royce. Over 6,000 Ghosts were built by the luxury automaker in England, with production beginning on Cooke Street in Manchester and concluding at the industrial Rolls-Royce Works in Derby in 1925. There were also over 1,700 Read more
A tire-based mandala from South Carolina artist Libby Imbody. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. To most people, used auto parts are suitable only for occupying space in a dumpster or at the local recycling center. To a select group of artists who work in rubber, steel and cast iron, however, Read more
Photos by Jim Fets, courtesy Mark Sassak, except where noted. Several years ago, Mark Sassak came a hair’s breadth away from owning all three of the 5300 Spyders that Stile Italia built for Bizzarrini. With one in his family since the 1960s and the second hunted down in Italy, the Read more
Photo courtesy Antti Rahko. Antti Rahko just needed something to keep him occupied in his retirement years. While most recent Floridian transplants take up golf or maybe golf with the occasional afternoon of golf, the Finnish transplant decided instead to build one of the world’s most well-known art cars, the Read more