Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1954 EMW 327/3, built by East Germany’s Eisenacher Motorenwerk. Photos by the author. It may look like a prewar BMW 327, but it isn’t. It even sounds like a BMW 327, but it isn’t. And although it even shares many of the same body panels and other mechanical bits of Read more
We’d be surprised if that Car Wash that once sat on the corner of King Street West and John Street in Toronto saw any business on the day this photo was taken in January 1961. Maybe later, but certainly not with the streets still slushed up. Still, this photo from Read more
Interestingly, when the seller of this 1962 Datsun Bluebird station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com notes that it was imported to the United States several years ago, it appears that it wasn’t imported from Japan – as we can see from the left-hand-drive setup – but from Mexico – as Read more
1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider. Photo by Brian Henniker, courtesy of Gooding and Company. Ferrari’s long-wheelbase 250 GT California Spiders are coveted automobiles, most restored to perfection and sold by collectors who prefer showing cars to driving them. Unrestored examples are rare, but no less desirable; at Gooding Read more
Photo courtesy General Motors. While an array of handbuilt scale model vehicles that participated in General Motors’s Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild contests makes for an intriguing display at any full-size car event, it’s only natural that they share table space with some of the country’s best model cars, which is Read more
The 2015 John Force Racing Chevrolet Camaro. Image courtesy John Force Racing. Unless you’ve been around for a very long time, you probably think John Force has been associated with Ford since Day One. It only feels that way: The wonderfully verbose Funny Car legend, the NHRA’s all-time winningest driver Read more
What’s a water temperature gauge doing in a Porsche 914? Well, as the headline gives away, the flat-four that originally powered this 1972 Porsche 914 for sale on Hemmings.com has been usurped by a water-cooled flat-six from a Subaru SVX. The normally-aspirated, 3.3-liter EG33, which Subaru employed in its top-of-the-line SVX from 1991-1997, is rated at 230 Read more
* H.B. Halicki. Gone in 60 Seconds. No sign of Nicolas Cage. All 90-something minutes of car chases, car crashes, and general mayhem. * We’ve seen GMC Motorhome burnouts, so obviously the next logical step is to take them racing. For episode four of Big Jim’s Bus Hole, Big Jim Read more
A four-speed in an Ambassador? Definitely not common, but certainly possible, as we see from this unrestored 1966 AMC Ambassador 990 convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the description and the photos, it appears to remain largely original and in need of only minor items, none of which should have Read more
* As it turned out, there was more going on at this week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit than just the introduction of the third go-around for the Ford GT40. Take, for instance, Mac’s Motor City Garage’s look at the various side displays, including the Ronnie Petersen/Brian Redman Read more