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ISO 100, aperture F/7.1, shutter speed 1/25-sec, focal length 29mm, handheld, Canon 60D with a 17-40mm Canon F/4 L series lens. This is one of three different setups (cropped for display) that were turned in for cover consideration for Hemmings Muscle Machines. Photos by author. It’s about 9:30 p.m. and Read more

You finds parking where you can gets it, especially in Boston. Photographer Leslie Jones must have been high up in a building at Mass General to get this shot of the ramps and ad hoc parking where Storrow Drive meets the Longfellow Bridge, which we came across on the Boston Read more

How much of the history of this 1917 Packard Twin Six motorhome for sale on Hemmings.com is reliable fact, we don’t know – the Pickwick Stages were named for their departure point in San Diego, not for any family, after all – but the motorhome itself is compelling, looking more Read more

Kenny Pascoe and Frank Arone pose with the Best in Show-winning 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. Picking category winners at Hemmings semiannual Musclepalooza isn’t based upon a critical scoring system, where every component, fastener and chalk mark is rated for authenticity and accuracy. Instead, Read more

A Ford-powered De Tomaso Pantera in the wild. Photo by Jeff Koch. The Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance, held on the grounds of America’s oldest fox-hunting club in Malvern, Pennsylvania, is celebrating its 18th year in 2014, and this year’s list of categories includes one particularly broad in scope. “Powered by Read more

The ICON Helios concept. Images courtesy Jonathan Ward. Jonathan Ward is a bit of a madman. The man behind TLC Land Cruisers and automotive builder ICON has a job many of us could only dream about: selling and restoring old Land Cruisers, building better-than-new versions of iconic trucks, and constructing Read more

Fazz James’s incredible 1/25 scale rendering of Buck Baker’s 1956 Chrysler 300-B race car. Photos courtesy Fazz James. Every so often, the reach of the Hemmings Nation comes into clear focus. We recently heard from Fazz James, who emailed us from his hometown of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. He recounted Read more

From Jovial Bailey, a reader of our Facebook page, comes today’s carspotting photo, which he tells us was taken in June 1972 in Point Loma, California, obviously somewhere on the naval base and on the east side of the peninsula, facing Coronado. The broad variety of cars and trucks in Read more

While the BMW 2002 may have brought some familiarity to BMW on these shores, it was the BMW 3 Series, launched here for the 1977 model year, that really put the German automaker on the map. Clean examples of first-generation (E21) 3-Series models are getting harder to find, and while Read more

Photos courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museum. The crowd roared with laughter and derision at the cloud of steam that grew from the middle of the Stanstead Fairgrounds. Rather, to be specific, they chided the machine at the center of the cloud, a malfunctioning horseless carriage that local watchmaker Henry Read more