Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1949 MG TC, the first car road raced by Carroll Shelby. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Before Texan Carroll Shelby built the Shelby Cobra or helped Ford to defeat Ferrari at Le Mans (and Sebring and Daytona, for those keeping score), he was a racer who competed at the highest levels of Read more
Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan. Photos courtesy of Simeone Museum. Though his business card reads Corvette Racing Program Manager, Doug Fehan is commonly referred to as “the heart and soul of Corvette Racing.” Since helping to develop GM’s return to corporate-backed Corvette racing in 1999, Fehan has helped the Read more
Art by GM from the author’s collection. Let’s face it, spark plugs weren’t known for igniting the imagination (too soon for a bad pun?). Despite having “spark” in the name and initiating an explosion in the combustion chambers, back in the 1960s much like today, they went relatively unnoticed until Read more
With 3D scanning and printing becoming attainable for DIY restorers, it’s becoming more feasible to resurrect cars from the 1980s with their myriad unreproduced plastic parts. However, they’re gonna need perfectly preserved, untouched, and unrestored originals as templates, cars like this 1985 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z for sale on Hemmings.com, a Read more
Generally, the rarer a car, the more likely it will become a candidate for restoration, if it hasn’t been restored already. Not so with Lars Severance’s 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 LTD two-door hardtop fitted with an R-code 425hp 427-cu.in. V-8 and four-speed transmission which, when Jim Donnelly and Richard Lentinello Read more
There’s a certain mechanical honesty to early Land Rovers that’s missing from modern SUVs. Simple, (relatively) reliable and able to competently traverse a wide variety of terrain, buying a Land Rover is, in a way, akin to parking peace of mind in your garage. This 1959 Land Rover Series II Read more
* If you think the rear end of John Osborn’s fiberglass-bodied Oldsmobile looked radical, check out the front end, as seen in the few photos Geoff Hacker of Forgotten Fiberglass and Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama have managed to piece together. * With former racing driver Randy Lanier now out of Read more
Maserati trident from 1963 Maserati Sebring. Photo by author. Throughout 2014, Maserati has been celebrating its centennial year with events across the globe. As the year winds down, the Italian automaker has announced a series of Cento anni di Maserati (100 years of Maserati) driving tours for owners in four Read more
So, apparently, while the folks at CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – have been figuring out string theory and all 11 dimensions and the differences between a muon and a quark, they haven’t really been taking great pains to caption the photos in their archive, so they’ve Read more
Most collectors, when going after multiple versions of the same model of car, try to go for a little variety – one of each color, maybe, or one of every bodystyle/drivetrain/model year. Not the seller of these two Competition Blue 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminators available on Hemmings.com, which share not Read more