Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1967 Chevrolet Camaro, said to be the first delivered to Yenko. Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. The Yenko name adds a considerable amount of value to any early Chevrolet Camaro, even if the car did nothing more than pass through the legendary dealership’s inventory without performance upgrades. Need Read more
Photo by the author. The first-ever Pebble Beach Design Forum took place on Friday, August 16, in a tent pavilion behind the Inn at Spanish Bay on 17-Mile Drive near Carmel. This was Pebble Week at its best. I enjoyed both sessions of the forum tremendously, and I’m sure this Read more
Photos courtesy Ronny Dennis. Paterson is a patch in the quilt of industrial cities that lie on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey’s biggest metropolis. It’s also a landmark in the world of oval track auto racing, or at least, it was for a long time. Racing used to be Read more
Photos courtesy Ronny Dennis. Paterson is a patch in the quilt of industrial cities that lie on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey’s biggest metropolis. It’s also a landmark in the world of oval track auto racing, or at least, it was for a long time. Racing used to be Read more
Ford Mustang SVO. Advertisement image courtesy of ProductionCars.com. Since its early days, most high-performance production versions of Ford’s evergreen pony car, the Mustang, have been designed to go fast in a straight line, emitting a glorious V-8 soundtrack in the process. In the early 1980s, however, a group of Ford Read more
One of our Facebook page readers, Jason Edge, sent along today’s carspotting photo with a little bit of info to accompany it. Steve’s Tower in the Sky was a fixture on Gillespie Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina, from 1957 to about 1968, combining both a drive-in restaurant and a DJ Read more
When the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit was launched in 1980, it was accompanied, naturally, by a Bentley counterpart, the Mulsanne. As had become standard practice at Crewe, the Bentley version was a Rolls-Royce in all but name and radiator grille, a Spirit for those who had an aversion to the Spirit Read more
1920 Dodge Brothers sedan. Brochure images courtesy of the Old Car Manual Project. Perhaps it was their passion for all things mechanical that led the Dodge brothers to begin producing assemblies for the fledgling automotive industry, or perhaps it was growing up in a machine shop that specialized in marine Read more
The 78 Series Toyota Land Cruisers used by Expeditions 7. Photos courtesy Expeditions 7. In 1984, Toyota introduced the Land Cruiser 70 Series to replace the aging-but-beloved Land Cruiser 40 Series, and in many parts of the world (U.S. and Canada excluded), 70 Series models remain available as utilitarian vehicles, Read more
Photo courtesy Jim DeYoung. Lloyd J. Wolf might have been peddling his auxiliary power units for over-the-road trucks by then, but in the mid-1960s not everybody felt it necessary to purchase a Dynassist to increase their load-carrying potential, as we can see from this one-off 1957 Diamond T 730C cabover Read more