Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The Le Mans-winning 787B will participate at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo courtesy Mazda. Need a great occasion for blowing your tax refund? Then set your sights on an event that belongs on everybody’s bucket list, the Goodwood Festival of Speed, that global celebration of motor racing history Read more
Porsche’s new in-dash navigation system. Photo courtesy Porsche. Recently, Porsche Classic announced an available navigation system for pre-1998 models using a DIN-1 sized original radio, which includes the 911, the 912, the 914, the 924, the 928 and the 944. As a selling point, the system includes a choice of Read more
So while Cordoba buyers in California couldn’t get the Lean Burn 400 in 1978, the 170hp four-barrel 360 seemed like a decent enough trade-off, especially if it’s the cop-car version, as the seller of this 1978 Chrysler Cordoba for sale on Hemmings.com states. That engine could probably use a good Read more
* What looks like a Ferrari on an Alpine highway is neither a Ferrari nor anywhere near the Alps. Instead, it’s a much cooler story: that of panelbeater Rod Tempero, who turns out highly crafted replica bodies – including the one of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO above – without Read more
Documentation, as they say, is everything when purporting your car to be correct and numbers matching. Fortunately for owners of Canadian GM products, documentation’s much easier to get than for their south of the border counterparts. Take, for instance, this 350-powered 1969 Pontiac Acadian SS for sale on Hemmings.com, a Read more
* The U.S. Army used 100,000 or so GM CCKW and Studebaker US6 trucks to build the Alaska Highway during World War II, and plenty of them still survive, many of them in T.J. Wheelman’s collection in Anchorage, showing not just how they were used to build the highway, but Read more
My ’31 Ford speedster build as of Christmas 2014. The body has begun to take shape. Photograph courtesy of the author. With the cowl formed, the seats and the fuel tank in place, and all of it along with the hood ready for paint, my ’31 Ford speedster is beginning Read more
From the same pool of Jaap van der Horst photos that the recent street scene from Solvang, California, came comes this photo of a full parking lot in some unidentified strip mall. Our best guess for the location – somewhere in Tacoma, Washington – comes after googling the business names Read more
Despite the fact that they were never officially sold on these shores, Nissan’s early Skyline GT-R models are growing in demand and price as more and more enthusiasts discover their charms. Last year, a restored 1972 Skyline GT-R sold for a fee-inclusive price of $242,000, which makes the $200,000 asked Read more
Photos courtesy Vicari Auctions. Bucket seats, hoodscoops and stripes ensure only that you’ll bring attention to yourself, not that you’ll win races. The more solid investment for the serious drag racer in the mid-Sixties was cubic inches, and one of the best dollars-to-cubes ratios came in the form of the Read more