Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Not every car can remain original forever. Engines and other mechanicals wear out or break, paint gets rubbed thin, the metal underneath rusts out. That’s why we restore and refurbish cars, so we can continue to enjoy them and avoid sending them to the scrapyard. Take, for instance, this 1947 Read more
In the animal kingdom, the echidna is an Australian anteater possessed of a particularly long nose and lacking in both speed and agility. Such a creature may seem like an inauspicious namesake for a sports racing car, but Echidna builders Ed Grierson, Bill Larson and John Staver were blessed with Read more
1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow, engine number 360007. Photo courtesy of Arizona Concours d’Elegance. Introduced at the New York Auto Show in January of 1933, the Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow was promoted with literature reading, “It gives you in 1933 the car of 1940.” Indeed, the car looked like nothing else on Read more
All the information you need, and a whole lot more, when buying a 1940 automobile. This 34-page softcover dynamo is packed with more detailed information than you ever thought could be available, and that you would want to know. When it comes to cars built for the 1940 model year, Read more
One of about 2,500 built, this 1978 AMC Concord AMX for sale on Hemmings.com has been treated to a few upgrades, including a 360 and headers, as well as one of the most thorough restorations on one of these cars that we’ve seen. Sure, it’s an automatic, and sure, it’s Read more
Volkswagen Beetles are notoriously easy to work on, so how much time and effort goes into the full restoration of one? That depends on what level of detail you intend to get down to, and Gary Stone put an awful lot of detail into the 1958 Sun Roof model that Read more
Unless somebody’s going all out to create a phantom fuelie Pontiac from scratch, we imagine this 1958 Pontiac Rochester fuel injection unit for sale on Hemmings.com will likely end up on or as a spare for one of the few 1958 Pontiacs to get fuel injection from the factory, especially Read more
* Instead of our regular Four-Links this week, let’s do a video edition, starting with the above Chevrolet docuvertisment featuring a trio of Corvairs and a pair of Chevrolet trucks crossing the Darien Gap, the same stretch of jungle that Mark Smith and the Expedicion de las Americas would later Read more
A 1958 Chevrolet in Cuba. Photo courtesy AACA Museum and International Expeditions. Though restrictions on visiting Cuba have eased somewhat over the past few decades, for most Americans traveling to Havana involves more than a visit to the local travel agent (or, more likely these days, Hotwire). In April of Read more
While researching the above photo, which longtime reader John Lee, the longrooffan, sent us, we came across pretty much everything we needed to know about it to set the scene – taken in 1958 in on Main Street in Johnson City, Tennessee – as well as a couple more photos Read more