Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
All photos courtesy the author. [Editor’s Note: Nancy Burgess is a historian and photographer specializing in the history of central Arizona and is the author of An Arizona Auto Adventure: Clarence Boynton’s 1913 Travelogue. She thought we’d like to see an excerpt from the book, showing just how much of Read more
What would a Bugatti built for the American market look like? Well, according to famed GM designer Dave Holls and a few other folks, something like this 1937 Bugatti Type 57/59 Special for sale on Hemmings.com – a car built from authenticated Bugatti framerails and using a Bugatti straight-eight engine Read more
* It’s a bit out of focus, but the 1969 Kar Kraft video that former employee Larry Lawrence filmed and that Mac’s Motor City Garage highlighted this week includes more than its fair share of noteworthy Kar Kraft-built high-performance Fords, including the Mach 2 concept above. * Jeep intended its Read more
In 1984, no one bought a Toyota Celica with the idea that it would one day be collectible. The front-engine, rear drive, sporty commuter cars were generally handed down through multiple owners, driven to the point of failure and then hauled to the nearest scrapyard. The scarcity of remaining examples Read more
* Whether a Soviet concern built this amphibious car in the Communist Sixties, as English Russia reported, or whether it was a homebuilt affair built from scraps and corrugated tin, we’ll probably never know, but in either case it’s an interesting riveted-together cobjob. * The Southern California Timing Association just Read more
Photos by author. An ultra-compact or compact camera is good for much more than documenting gatherings of family and friends. It can also be advantageous when working in tight quarters on your vintage vehicle. I use one to get photos for tech stories wherever my DSLR simply won’t fit. You Read more
Twenty-five years before this parking lot became the inadvertent resting place for much of the Hacienda resort and casino after the building’s botched New Year’s Eve implosion – and before it became the site of the current-day Mandalay Bay – it seemed to be a booming place, packed with a Read more
There exists a fine line between personalization and customization, and this 1973 Opel Manta Luxus with the Blue Max package for sale on Hemmings.com comes right up to that line, with some of the original trim deleted, but nothing of substance altered, save for a carburetor swap. Whatever the amount Read more
Photo by Joel Dinda. Long-awaited Renewable Fuel Standard program revisions that the EPA released late last month indicate that while the federal agency has no plans to reverse corn ethanol’s presence in the U.S. fuel supply, EPA officials also don’t support blending as much total ethanol into fuel as it Read more
All photos courtesy Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society. The company never built a powered vehicle, yet it still called itself “the first name in transportation” for a reason: Fruehauf built the means to transport everything from lumber to livestock and in the process dominated the trailer industry for much of the Read more