Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
There’s nothing pretentious about an MGA, your basic, classic British roadster, and this pleasantly scruffy 1960 MGA 1600 has earned Driveable Dream status in the hands of its long-term owners. The 1600, launched in 1959, has a 1,588cc pushrod B-series four for better performance over its 1500 predecessor, as well as front Read more
At first sight, the 1928 Ford Model A Business Coupe that Jeff Koch photographed and wrote up for SIA #199, February 2004, looks like a good candidate for restoration – it’s still all there and not totally chewed through by rust. And it’s an unusual fixed-cloth-top bodystyle, to boot. But Read more
Most of the new gasser builds we see nowadays sacrifice some of the outright straight-line performance aspects of the gassers of old for some measure of streetability. This 1940 Willys gasser for sale on Hemmings.com – which, lacking any provenance in the description, appears to have been a recent build Read more
* Elwood Engel’s Lincoln Mk IX concept, intended to replace the 1961 Lincoln Continental, never made it beyond the mockup stage, but it ended up inspiring many a car throughout the decade, both at Ford and at Chrysler, thanks to Elwood Engel’s hasty departure from the former, or at least Read more
The 1967 Le Mans-winning GT 40 Mk IV on display at The Henry Ford in 2011. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. Ask most race fans to name the first time an American team won Le Mans with an American car, and most will point to Ford’s 1-2-3 sweep of the Read more
The same University of North Texas administration building that appeared in our last carspotting stop in Denton, Texas, courtesy the UNT Digital Library, figures again in today’s return to Denton, just in its under-construction form from about 1956. All five of these photos of Chestnut Street in front of the Read more
Toyota’s Cressida debuted in North America as a 1978 model, intended to add a bit of luxury to the automaker’s conservative lineup. Powered by a 2.6-liter inline six-cylinder engine that dropped carburation for fuel injection soon after the car’s launch, the Cressida came with standard features like air conditioning, an Read more
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. “I have a saying that I’ve stuck with as a designer,” said retired AMC and Chrysler designer Vince Geraci. “There’s a fine line between unique and strange. In the styling world, you want to be unique, but you don’t want to cross over to strange. I think Read more
1980 Talbot Lotus Sunbeam. Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. In the late 1970s, American manufacturers were oddly locked in a battle for World Rally Championship supremacy in Europe, and Chrysler’s answer to the dominant Ford Escort RS was a Lotus-tuned Talbot Sunbeam, visually similar to (but significantly different from) the American Read more
Photo by author. Over the last 29 years, it’s happened more times than I can count. The second I spray degreaser, carburetor cleaner, primer, paint or anything else that has any real or perceived odor, my wife Linda is at the garage door saying, “What’s that chemical smell?” I swear Read more