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Photos courtesy the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance. Paul Doerring had many passions in life – jazz, tennis, and psychology among them – but cars, and particularly post-war cars, drove him to establish the event that would go on to become the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance. Following his death Read more
1971 Hurst Jeepster Commando. Photos by the author. Omix-ADA bills itself as the world’s largest Jeep parts and accessories supplier, so it stands to reason that the company knows a thing or two about Jeeps in all their variations. To prove this point, the company’s SEMA exhibit featured a display Read more
Dan Gurney, from Peter Manso’s book Vroom!! This book’s sub-title says it all: “Conversations with the Grand Prix Champions.” Which is exactly what this 227-page hardcover book is all about – simply unpretentious conversations. And highly interesting ones too, just so long as you enjoy reading about the most notable Read more
The end was near for Packard in 1956 and the Caribbean hardtop was the least popular car in that year’s lineup. Only 263 were sold, but this one made it as a cover car in the September 1973 issue of Hemmings Motor News. From the text: The ’56 Packard on Read more
If we were the stereotyping types, we could go through this Charles H. Graves photo of the parking lot at Urey Hall at the University of California San Diego from January 1964 and make some assumptions about the owners of the cars parking there. Except we don’t know which belong Read more
Need a pickup truck for hauling, but can’t bear to add another F-150, Silverado, Ram 1500 or Sierra to the parking lot? Does the idea of a fuel-efficient truck with front-wheel drive appeal to you? Then this 1978 Citroen HY, converted from van to pickup and for sale on Hemmings.com, Read more
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. A lot can happen in 10 years. When muscle car collector and museum founder Tim Wellborn spoke with Hemmings Muscle Machines for a profile on him in 2005, he said he’d owned many of his cars for decades and didn’t much care about Read more
Chassis 017, the very first Mazda MX-5 race car. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. Though no one could have known it at the time, the Mazda MX-5 Miata, introduced to North America at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, would go on to become the best selling two-seat sports car Read more
Photo by author. Last night I was watching the collection of Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry movies that my wife gave me for my birthday. Fans of the franchise will recall that Harry Callahan usually had a catchphrase he repeated at opportune moments throughout each film. For Magnum Force, the one Read more
Images courtesy RacingSportsCars.com. For all but a couple of the last 66 years, the village of Watkins Glen, New York, at the southern end of Lake Seneca, has hosted some form of racing, whether it be among sports cars, drag cars, or stock cars. But that doesn’t mean it’s all Read more