Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1979 Kanzler Coupe. Brochure image courtesy Alden Jewel. The Seventies and Eighties saw an influx of cars that would mix the old and the new, with 1930s designs and lines being used on the likes of the Stutz Blackhawk, Excalibur, Clénet and the Zimmer motorcars, to name but a few. Read more
Porsche Cayman at a Lime Rock Drivers Club track day. Photo courtesy Lime Rock Park. Our whole world is predicated on the fact that you’re never too old to have a happy childhood. Really big kids like to drive fast. Even if you’ve reached a certain, noble level of seniority Read more
San Francisco carspotting photos tend to offer healthy doses of the unexpected, and we get plenty of it in this late 1960s (maybe early 1970s?) photo of the base of West Portal Avenue in the foggy southwestern part of the city: There’s a couple older imports, an aerial behind the Read more
We’re often left guessing why the original owners of certain cars with unusual or unexpected configurations ordered the cars that way, but it’s no stretch of the imagination to see why drag race photographer Lloyd King bought this 1964 Ford Country Sedan now for sale on Hemmings.com with a Z-code Read more
Photo via the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. John Glenn had survived being shot into space, dozens of combat missions during World War II and the Korean War, and a career as a test pilot. But one Saturday in May of 1971 he nearly lost his life to a car dealer driving Read more
Porsche Sport Driving School at the Hockenheimring in August 1974. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. After a successful career as a driver, one retirement option has long been the opening of a branded driving school. The formula has worked, in varying degrees of success, for Skip Barber, Bob Bondurant, Carroll Shelby, Read more
The focal length of the lens makes a difference in the perspective of the photo. Notice how the Judge looks compressed in this photo (in a good way). Its background appears to be fairly close to it and the Pontiac’s proportions appear to be equal front to rear. The focal Read more
Finding restoration parts for this Twin-H-powered 1955 Hudson Wasp Hollywood two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com has to be a giant pain in the rear, but it doesn’t look like there’s much to address on the car, which has been treated to a refurbished interior, appears to be mechanically in Read more
Even before Doc Hudson’s turn as a star in the Disney film Cars, step-down Hudsons proved popular both within and without Hudson aficionado circles, as we can see from two step-downs in this five-car comparison test from SIA #197, October 2003, both of which scored the highest marks, as rated Read more
It’s our imperfections that tell our stories, from our scars to our exes to the dents and dings in our cars. While this 1962 Chrysler 300 four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com, a completely original car, down to the paint and interior, would make for a quick-and-easy restoration, to remove Read more