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A 1941 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon takes the field at Pebble Beach. Photos by the author. Once again, the Hemmings editorial team has done our best to cover the extensive events on California’s Monterey Peninsula during the seven-day period that has become affectionately known as “Car Week.” With Read more
1972 McLaren M20-01. Photo by the author. Proving that the legendary Canadian-American (Can-Am) Challenge series has lost little of its appeal even four decades after its glory years, a McLaren M20 Can-Am campaigned by Peter Revson throughout the 1972 season sold for $2 million at Mecum’s Monterey sale. Photo by Read more
As diesel engines proliferated and as engine builders found ways to make their products more powerful during the Fifties and Sixties, the need for dual-engine setups in cabovers – such as the ones that hauled B-24 bomber parts during World War II – should have disappeared. Lloyd J. Wolf, however, Read more
Jeremy Baye in front of his 1945 Speed & Custom shop in Troy, New York, with friend and employee Jim “Jimbo” Rooney. Two years ago, Jeremy Baye decided to pursue his longtime dream of making a living customizing cars. On July 27, 2012, he opened his very own shop, 1945 Read more
Many of us know Dorothea Lange for her portraits of Americans suffering through the Great Depression in the West and Midwest, so it’s odd to see this photograph that she took of the hustle and bustle of midtown Manhattan – specifically of traffic on Fifth Avenue as it approaches 57th Read more
It might look like a Fiat, but this 1962 ZAZ 965A for sale on Hemmings.com shares only a passing resemblance and size with the Italian minicar. The more one looks, the more one sees how far the Ukranian carmaker diverged from the design of the Fiat 600, from the V-4 Read more
Portion of the East Grand Boulevard Packard plant. Image courtesy Google Street View. With most disputes over the ownership of the former Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit resolved, the new owner of the plant told the Detroit Free Press this week that he intends to begin cleanup Read more
1964 Ferrari 275 GTB/C, chassis 06701. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. The appeal of works competition Ferraris is their exclusivity, as the available population of cars is often just a fraction of total production. Maranello built 453 examples of the 275 GTB for consumers, but only three 275 Read more
1963 Pontiac Le Mans. Photo courtesy GM Media Archive. “I can’t believe that show was so good last night,” my wife, Linda, said from the kitchen amidst the clanging of the breakfast dishes. “It was on for years, and we never watched it once back then, but now we watch Read more
The horizontal speedometer of a 1974 Plymouth Satellite. Photo by Bob Sekeksky. Editor’s note: This Open Diff piece comes from Hemmings Motor News account executive Bradford Kosich, who perpetually has grease beneath his fingernails and some sort of injury from working on his latest project car. One of the great Read more