Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Nowadays, there’s not a whole lot going on at the Green Mountain Racetrack in Pownal, not too far south of Bennington. There’s a solar farm, and the radio control plane guys fly out of there on nice days. But as we can see from this photo of the track’s north Read more
Bobsy Racing Cars, like this 1967 Bobsy SR-4, for sale on Hemmings.com, were the creation of Ohio mechanic Jerry Mong, who never envisioned that Volkswagen-powered special he built for himself would turn into a full-time business. Mong was enlisted to build a pair of similar specials for the Heir brothers; Read more
Dan Gurney inspects the car he drove at Indy in 1967, while son Justin (holding the mic) narrates. Photos courtesy AAR. From late May through the third week of June 1967, Dan Gurney was a busy man, driving in the Indy 500, the Dutch Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Read more
Photos courtesy Coys. The only scrap of evidence that ties the 1977 ZiL 114 limousine coming up for auction in Germany later this month to former Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev is literally a scrap of paper: a note found in the car purporting that it was Brezhnev’s personal car. Whatever Read more
The Ferrari 225S at Thompson, Connecticut, owned and driven here by Adrian Melville. He raced the car as #9 at Thompson in September 1954, finishing 1st overall in race 8 and 7th overall, 1st in class in race 11. Photo by Ozzie Lyons, courtesy Pete Lyons. [Editor’s Note: While the Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. This charming film uses up a third of its time allotment just to get around to today’s topic, but fear not: The Jam Handy crew will explain the mysteries of marine biology (as applied to exploding fish), poorly lit underwater photography and Read more
We thought about including this photo from the Richfield Historical Society in with our last look at Richfield, Ohio – it is the same Country Counter market, after all, just depicted a decade or so earlier – but given the wide selection of cars in both photos, we felt each Read more
More impressive than the unrestored-and-yet-nearly-immaculate condition of this 1959 Rambler Custom four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com is the ultra-low mileage reading on the odometer. Did the little old lady who owned the car only need to take it to the corner store once a week? Or did she simply Read more
John McComb’s 1933 Pierce-Arrow Model 1242 seven-passenger sedan. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum, unless otherwise noted. Each year, Maine’s Owls Head Transportation Museum plays host to the New England Auto Auction, the museum’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Most of the cars to be sold are consignments, while others Read more
Range Rover Classic, to be shown at the 2015 Techno Classica. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By Land Rover’s own estimation, 70-percent of the vehicles it’s built since the first Series I rolled off the line in 1948 are still on the road (or, in Land Rover’s case, the trail). Read more