Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
911 cabriolet from the Porsche Drive program, outside the Porsche Museum. Photo courtesy Porsche AG. For many, visiting the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, would qualify as the trip of a lifetime. In addition to a regularly updated display of historically significant Porsche street and racing cars, the museum now Read more
The air in the Alsace region of France must be filled with creative ions that make car designers think different. This German-border town was home to Bugatti, creator of truly distinctive sports cars, and Mathis, one of France’s largest car companies after the Big Three—Citroen, Peugeot and Renault. To think Read more
Compact convertibles from foreign manufacturers once dotted the American landscape, but today have largely vanished from sight (Mazda’s beloved Miata excepted). Once plentiful in the classified advertising of any city that enjoyed a reasonable amount of annual sunshine (and, of course, Hemmings Motor News), Fiat 124 Spiders have become somewhat Read more
One would expect the assistant curator at the Petersen Automotive Museum to have curated himself a nice little collection, and indeed, Richard Rowlands, who held that position when Jeff Koch interviewed him for this article that appeared in SIA #200, April 2004, had assembled a nice quintet of Mopars, most Read more
The few upgrades and refurbishments on this 1974 GMC Motorhome for sale on Hemmings.com don’t detract all that much from it: After all, the folks who collect and own these rigs look at them less as investments and more as practical, useable classics. So the cushier seats, new generator, and Read more
* Reader Lindsay Wilson pointed us toward Holden New Zealand’s Facebook page this week to point out that Holden just finished the restoration of a 1969 Holden Monaro GTS and that it came out gorgeous. * We’ve long marveled at Alden Jewell’s ability to collect vintage auto ephemera, and now Read more
1968 Kaiser Jeep CJ5. Back by popular demand, here’s another installment of the $5,000 Challenge. To recap, the rules are simple: I’ve chosen five vehicles from our online classifieds priced at $5,000 or less, and your job is to choose the one you’d buy (and, of course, tell us why Read more
In the same Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn where we last saw a couple carspotting scenes from Anthony Catalano’s archives on Flickr, we now see these two mid-1970s scenes, separated by just a few blocks. Above, the intersection of 13th Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue under what is now the Read more
We think of Willys-Overland as building off-roaders, but the four-wheel-drive version of its boxy Station Wagon didn’t debut until 1949, more than two years after the two-wheel-drive version. The 4×4 wagon was initially powered, or perhaps underpowered, by the 63-hp Go Devil four. The 72-hp Hurricane F-head four offered a Read more
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis 3455GT, undergoing repairs in Maranello. Photos courtesy Ferrari Classiche. This much is known: in 2012, while competing in a vintage road rally near Blois, France, American Christopher Cox and his wife, Ann, were injured when their 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO collided with a passenger car. Read more