Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
A 1941 Packard One-Twenty woodie wagon at the Saturday Cruise-In Spectacular. Photos by author. Go to any concours d’elegance event, our own included, and you’re guaranteed to see stunning cars in a spectacular setting. These vehicles typically represent the finest remaining examples of a particular year, make and model, but Read more
Generation 1 and 2 Dodge Viper RT/10 roadsters are raw, rough, impractical, uncomfortable and unforgiving. But no one ever bought a Viper thinking they were getting a modern interpretation of the 1965 Imperial. People bought Vipers because they wanted the modern interpretation of the 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra. And on Read more
Photos by the author. About half a dozen years ago, when David Salzman of Jupiter, Florida, began his search for a collector car from the 1950s to restore and show, he found himself looking beyond the typical choices. “The Cadillacs and the Buicks just weren’t doing it for me,” he Read more
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Orbitron, now restored. Photo courtesy Beau Boeckmann. [Author Tom Cotter has collected hundreds of “barn-find” stories for his previous books, The Cobra in the Barn, The Corvette in the Barn, The Harley in the Barn, The Hemi in the Barn, and The Vincent in the Barn. Read more
The 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Photos by author. What do you get when you blend over 160 of the finest collector cars in the U.S. and Canada with one of the most scenic state parks in New York, mixed with an absolutely perfect early fall Sunday afternoon? In Read more
As if the survivor status of this 1969 Ford LTD hardtop coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, wasn’t incentive enough to make the seller an offer, the car also played a (small) background role in the Clint Eastwood film Jersey Boys, which certainly gives the Ford’s next owner bragging rights. Thought Read more
Some critics charge that people who keep their all-original cars untouched, unpainted, unreupholstered, unrestored, and unrechromed are simply lazy or cheap. Those critics would do well to read through this Driveable Dream article by Jim Donnelly that appeared in SIA #195, June 2003, which recounts Wayne Koffel’s reasoning for keeping Read more
With some mechanical work, there seems to be no reason this 1955 International RM-120 Metro delivery van for sale on Hemmings.com couldn’t be pressed back into service, and the seller rattles off a number of possible uses for it, from food truck to swap meet parts hauler. Sure, one could Read more
* Clay modeling was a state-of-the-art practice when Gordon Buehrig introduced it to the design staff at Auburn and Cord in the 1930s, so it’s fascinating to see how exactly they implemented it in this video that Mac’s Motor City Garage came across this week. * Surely everybody who’s noted Read more
DuPont 7 Polish “Makes Cars Sparkle!” Scanned advertisement from author’s collection. Back in the late 1960s, when I was a young teenager, I was helping the old man across the street clean out his garage and found a can of DuPont No. 7 Polish sitting on one of the dusty Read more