Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
* While these days we often think of the 1953 Motorama, the first in GM’s series of showcases, in terms of the concept cars introduced there – the Corvette, the Le Sabre, the Buick XP-300, and others – it was more than that, as this King Rose Archives video shows. Read more
The problem with most motor homes is this: take them off of paved roads, and they’re fish out of water. Not so with this custom 2014 Mitsubishi Expedition RV, for sale on Hemmings.com. Constructed on a Mitsubishi four-wheel drive truck platform with a Host Industries camper body, this rig is Read more
* Out in Los Angeles, a new gallery show curated by Christopher Mount, “When the Future Had Fins,” will focus on the art of the automobile rendering, with all of the artwork available for sale. Petrolicious chatted with Mount about the show. * It’s not often somebody wants to dyno-test Read more
Will a 2015 Chevy Volt be worth big money to collectors in 2041? Photo courtesy GM Media. In 1989, the Hollywood blockbuster Back to the Future II envisioned a 2015 filled with flying cars, self-fitting clothes and hoverboards, to name but a few of the movie’s forward-thinking ideas. So far, Read more
Though this is hard to quantify, I’ve begun to notice a general downward spiral in civility among commenters on our posts. Disagreements are fine, but calling something “crap” because you don’t like it is not. Likewise, personal attacks on other posters are not permitted, and will be deleted by any Read more
Because the last couple of carspotting photos we’ve run from the University of North Texas Digital Library show the university’s administration building, we went looking for something different from those archives for today’s carspotting photos and came across these two showing a couple different parades at some unstated location in Read more
One of the results from Chrysler’s early confidence in the Airflow was that it ended up offering a wide range of variations and bodystyles on the theme, distributed among three Chrysler brands. Which to choose for today’s Airflow enthusiast, then? The Imperials have become quite rare, but one seller on Read more
1955 DKW Schnellaster Tieflader 3=6. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. DKW Schnellaster Kastenwagens (rapid delivery panel vans) have proven popular at auction in the past two years, with a 1956 example netting $101,750 at a 2013 Pebble Beach auction and a 1960 model commanding $60,500 in Scottsdale Read more
The Posie Aeroliner Sport. Photo courtesy Posie’s. Conventional wisdom says that concours d’elegance events, especially those as well-respected as Amelia Island, are no place for the think-outside-the-box world of hot rods. Bill Warner, founder and chairman of the Amelia Island event, would beg to differ, and in 2015 created an Read more
Sometimes it takes more than a bag of sand and snow tires to get around in the wintertime. Sometimes you need a little more ingenuity and a cache of old auto and airplane parts, which North Dakotan Roy Berg had plenty of in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and Read more